mortal part
Example Sentences
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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 Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
Here he often came to this brother, whose death in his arms in 1835 cast a lasting shadow over his lonely life; and here, beside the brother and his family, his mortal part lies buried.
From In and Around Berlin by Minerva Brace Norton
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 William Robert Lee Smith
He had already got the barrel through the wattles, and was endeavouring to level it upon the bear—seeking for a mortal part at which he might aim.
From Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt by Johann Baptist Zwecker
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 Madison J. Cawein
