mortal part

Example Sentences

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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

Dr. Balloch stood, with bared head and uplifted eyes, watching them, while they laid the mortal part of his old friend in “that narrow house, whose mark is one gray stone.”

From Jan Vedder's Wife by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

But what is ill-treated is only the mortal part of human nature, which they will afterwards have conquered.

From Christianity As Mystical Fact And The Mysteries of Antiquity by Collison, Harry

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

The hills that Morning's footsteps wake; The waves that take A brightness from the Eve; the woods O'er which Night broods, Their spirits have, whose parts are one With his whose mortal part is done.

From Undertones by Cawein, Madison J.