mortal part
Example Sentences
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But her intended bridegroom was in America, and Miss Pewsey's mortal part was in the grave.
From The Mandarin's Fan by Hume, Fergus
His spoils were strewed beneath the soil of Rome, Whose flowers now star the dark earth near his tomb: Its airs and plants received the mortal part, His spirit beats within his mother’s heart.
From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) by Marshall, Florence A. Thomas
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
Aja's lament.—As soon as King Aja is firmly established on his throne, Raghu retires to a hermitage to prepare for the death of his mortal part.
From Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works by Kalidasa
Ah, potter, stay thine hand' with ruthless art Put not to such base use man's mortal part!
From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Khayyam, Omar
