mortal part

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“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

For the gold was the part that would never die, and the clay was jest the mortal part that we dropped when this mortal shall have put on immortality.

From Aunt Jane of Kentucky by Strong, Beulah

IF wrongfully I moan’d thy ‘pretty wrongs’, When I was ’sometime absent from thy heart’, O none so trusting but to him belongs Some moody moment of his mortal part!

From Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost by Blaeu, Willem

At last the mortal part went down without pain, and on January 5th, 1906, the Mother of Hollins went away.

From Charles Lewis Cocke Founder of Hollins College by Smith, William Robert Lee

Sensitive to the least quiver of a lip, the young man's mortal part was stung with an exquisite sense of the becoming.

From The Creators A Comedy by Sinclair, May