mortal part
Example Sentences
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It bears the inscription, in German, composed by himself:— Love and Friendship joined these kindred souls in life, And their mortal part is covered by this common stone.
From The Friendships of Women by Alger, William Rounseville
Why then thy former soul is flown to me; For I, methinks, am lifted into air, As if my mind, mastering my mortal part, Would bear my exalted body to the gods.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 by Scott, Walter, Sir
“Thou, mother of my mortal part, With cruelty didst mould my heart, And with false self-deceiving fears Didst bind my nostrils, eyes, and ears.”
From William Blake A Critical Essay by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
Be thine the mortal part; heaven holds the best, And, glorying in its brightness, brighter glows, While memory still records the great and good.
From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas
Her proud, unconquered spirit would not admit the passing insensibility of its mortal part.
From Fairy Fingers A Novel by Ritchie, Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt
