mortal part

Example Sentences

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Abraham, leaving his mortal part, was added to the people of God, 15 Ibid. p.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville

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

Her proud, unconquered spirit would not admit the passing insensibility of its mortal part.

From Fairy Fingers A Novel by Ritchie, Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt

But her intended bridegroom was in America, and Miss Pewsey's mortal part was in the grave.

From The Mandarin's Fan by Hume, Fergus

In the same crypt the mortal part of de Sta�l rests at his feet; the portal was walled up at her burial and eye hath not since seen her sepulchre.

From A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors by Wolfe, Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen)