eternize
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Being his next voyage to that to Nombre de Dios, formerly imprinted ... offered ... especially for the stirring up of heroick spirits, to benefit their country and eternize their names by like bold attempts.
From The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century by Clarence Henry Haring
Then there may be titles, and pensions, and marble monuments to eternize the men who have thus become great;—but what becomes of you, and your country, and your children?
From The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book by Ontario. Ministry of Education
Can it be possible that the brush which worthily painted Christ's agony, can be the same that descended to eternize redundant red fishwives, and call them goddesses?
From Nancy by Rhoda Broughton
The several unexpected victories obtained under your Excellency’s conduct will eternize the same unto all posterity.
From Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams
We suppose he wants to eternize his Memory by eating a Breakfast.
From The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany Parts 2, 3 and 4 by Maximillian E. Novak
A woman wove through the sea of red and up to the eternized president, accompanied by a pair of panting golden retrievers.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 27, 2019
Let dead names be eternized in dead stone, But living names by living shafts be known.
From Wild Flowers Worth Knowing by Neltje Blanchan
The dead are eternized in stone, The living, by living shafts are known.
From Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919 by Northern Nut Growers Association
Is not their memory eternized in one of John Foster's most ponderous pieces of sarcasm?
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by
The sight of the poetry eternized in these statues, took the sting from the thought, arraying it only in poetic ideality.
From The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Although more enduring than parchment, tombs, pyramids, and temples, it is as far as they from truly eternizing the memory of what man has fancied and done.
From Curiosities of the Sky by Garrett Putman Serviss
These should have some such eternizing epitaph as this: “For four years they kept the fates banded against them uneasy.”
From The Brothers' War by John Calvin Reed
