mortal part
Example Sentences
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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
Late in the following spring, when the looming drifts of the pass had melted, the mortal part of the Storekeeper was found some distance from the track, where he had stumbled blindly in his wanderings.
From The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains by Waterloo, Stanley
All these, and more, are immortal shapes; and he that made them so, although his mortal part be but a handful of dust in yonder crypt, is a glorious angel beyond the stars.
From Shakespeare's England by Winter, William
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
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
