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)

I see no difficulty That He, who from primordial atoms formed A human frame, can from the dust awake it Once again, marshal the scattered molecules And make immortal, as was Adam.

From Laura Secord, the heroine of 1812. A Drama. and Other Poems. by Curzon, Sarah Anne

Henley Street Stratford Mine was the wish to bind society together, expose the floor of heaven, make immortal real, show man’s folly and labor, extol faith and uphold beauty.

From Voices from the Past by Bartlett, Paul Alexander

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