make immortal

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But Calypso yields up her lover whom she "thought to make immortal and ageless."

From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Snider, Denton Jaques

Terms of honorable surrender were granted, and the next day—the day which Washington was to make immortal, July 4—the English retreated from Fort Necessity.

From Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

It's a perfectly beautiful look, the sort of look some great artist would have loved to make immortal.

From Mr. Britling Sees It Through by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Of those nine and twenty sonnets she looked for a score that should make immortal the moments of triumph and of vision, the moments of rapture and fulfilment of the heart's desire.

From The Divine Fire by Sinclair, May

The Art of faithfully reading what has been written for our learning; and of clearly writing what we would make immortal of our thoughts.

From Mornings in Florence by Ruskin, John