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  • That particularly galled me, because it implied the immortality of those left behind: You will live forever in my memory, because I will live forever†   (source)
  • It also produces the Elixir of Life, which will make the drinker immortal.†   (source)
  • Not only will these flakes whisk you out like a pot scrubber, they murmur of renewed vitality, of endless youth, of immortality.†   (source)
  • I guess I looked at being a teenager as being immortal.†   (source)
  • Ah, gods, plural, as in, great beings that control the forces of nature and human endeavors: the immortal gods of Olympus.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, an Olympic pool is an Olympic pool, touched by immortal glory.†   (source)
  • He looked as if someone were about to reveal the secret of immortal life.†   (source)
  • As the lightning flashed and the thunder cracked, I, the unsung quarterback of an unsung team, rose up out of that mud not once, but twice, to achieve football immortality.†   (source)
  • By keeping their stories alive you make them, and yourself, immortal.†   (source)
  • Countless moments with each of them seemed immortal to me—the time when Pammy was about eighteen months and we were all sitting at the dinner table, and Pammy raised her arms overhead and said "Up!" so we all raised our arms over our heads and shouted "Up!†   (source)
  • Under the drawing, Owen had written: "OFTEN A SYMBOL OF REBORN IDEALISM, OR HOPE—OR AN EMBLEM OF IMMORTALITY."†   (source)
  • It seems that her lives have jumped a groove, like a record arm that gets bumped, and she's landed up there at the dawn of her immortal soul's mutable, genetic journey, with no knowledge of the thousands of other lives she must have led in between.†   (source)
  • The happiest story being the one about Willie Mays's very last at-bat in the Minor Leagues, before he went up to the New York Giants and immortality.†   (source)
  • "Fae are immortal," she said.†   (source)
  • I looked at the body again, throttled and flayed and drowned and somehow made immortal in the process.†   (source)
  • "The body of the white man, I salute you," he said, using the language in which immortals spoke to men.†   (source)
  • Or ten-thousand-year droplets from the magic mountain, giving me my life's direction and a thousand years of fame and immortality?†   (source)
  • Those self-important women gained local immortality for the blandest, the most timid of eccentricities—walking a cat on a dog's lead, riding about on a man's bike, being seen with a sandwich in the street.†   (source)
  • And you, woman, if you go to the Quakers you'll lose your immortal soul and the souls of your children.†   (source)
  • In that way the line he had begun seemed immortal to him, like a strong steel filament threading into the future, continuing past him no matter where he might fall off.†   (source)
  • We were studying the poetry of Walt Whitman: Jupiter shall emerge, be patient, watch again another night, the Pleiades shall emerge, They are immortal, all those stars both silvery and golden shall shine out again Vacant faces.†   (source)
  • Sunday evening everyone, except Pim and me, was clustered around the radio, listening to the "Immortal Music of the German Masters."†   (source)
  • They were immortal unless blade or poison took them.†   (source)
  • Jumping into the crystal has made her immortal.†   (source)
  • But everyone knew one thing: The Shadow was immortal and invulnerable and as pitiless as his master.†   (source)
  • Nor had Father Dur lost his conviction that the Holy Catholic Apostolic Church continued to be humankind's last, best hope for immortality.†   (source)
  • But I just pulled my magazine higher over my face, following the advice of the immortal Richard Milhous Nixon: plausible deniability.†   (source)
  • You mean, immortal, don't you?†   (source)
  • We must keep quiet and not visit with each other, but think only of our immortal souls.†   (source)
  • Speed, strength, beauty, pale skin, eyes that shift color; and then Jacob's criteria: blood drinkers, enemies of the werewolf, cold-skinned, and immortal.†   (source)
  • Those are just a few of the uses to which Shakespeare's plots and situations get put, but if that's all he amounted to, he'd only be a little different from any other immortal writer.†   (source)
  • The formulation for immortality must be brewed afresh every month.†   (source)
  • Like the mythological self-castrated Attis, Mal'akh knew that achieving immortality required a clean break with the material world of male and female.†   (source)
  • And thus they pay no heed to the immortality of their own soul.†   (source)
  • But you must have all the things you never had of life and make of immortality a junk shop in which both of us become grotesque.†   (source)
  • The goddess is immortal.†   (source)
  • I leaned over and, through the glass covering her face, placed a kiss on the lips of my immortal beloved.†   (source)
  • His favorite book was Steven Pressfield's Gates of Fire, the story of the immortal stand of the Spartans at Thermopylae.†   (source)
  • It was an immortal portrait.†   (source)
  • And so when the burden of being nothing lifts from one's thoughts the idea of the immortality of the soul is like a light in a blinding storm.†   (source)
  • We can have immortality or the memory of touch.†   (source)
  • A chance at immortality.†   (source)
  • She knew what it was—she had succumbed to that profound drive shared by all creatures who are faced with death—the drive to seek immortality through progeny.†   (source)
  • To do that effectively we have tobelieve ourselves as immortal and are therefore incapable of facing our emotional truths.†   (source)
  • He's immortal like an angel but has all the mortal senses.†   (source)
  • How many patients had been needlessly subjected to pain and terror all for the sake of the warden searching for a kind of immortality?†   (source)
  • It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand.†   (source)
  • She's immortal.†   (source)
  • It was one of Fiske's many immortal gaffes.†   (source)
  • They sang as though, by singing, they could bring about the codification and the immortality of innocence.†   (source)
  • When war struck this country, when neither pride nor belligerence nor grief had availed us anything, when we were uprooted, and scattered to the four winds, I clung desperately to those immortal lines: This is my own, my native land.†   (source)
  • Some of it ended up in glass vials in freezers owned by the United States Army, where it was kept immortal in a zoo of hot agents.†   (source)
  • You are putting her immortal soul in danger?'†   (source)
  • In America, my initial impression was that death or the possibility of it always seemed to come as a surprise, as if we took it for granted that we were immortal, and that death was just an option.†   (source)
  • The reign of Eddis supposedly arose out of one of the stories in which Hephestia rewarded a king named Hamiathes with a stone dipped in the water of immortality.†   (source)
  • It's immortality I'm after, to be quite honest.†   (source)
  • The other reason is we're immortal.†   (source)
  • Why Raziel created us, his race of Shadowhunters, yet did not give us the powers Downworlders have—the speed of the wolves, the immortality of the Fair Folk, the magic of warlocks, even the endurance of vampires.†   (source)
  • The patent might have a company to manage its affairs, but the mine on Big Unaka was sacred to these two, in whom the immortal urchin sufficiently survived to make mine-hunting and exploiting delectable employment.†   (source)
  • We used to think the same about immortality.†   (source)
  • He himself, however, said it was not until later, at Philadelphia, that in a "passion of patriotism," he began what he called The Crisis, with its immortal opening lines : These are the times that try men's souls.†   (source)
  • He held back even then until the bloated colonel with the big fat mustache whirled upon him savagely with a purpling face, and then he offered the explanation that made him immortal.†   (source)
  • At nineteen, working for the Talladega Daily Home, I went on a road-trip to Atlanta to cover a stock car race with the immortal Tommy Hornsby, who was the sports editor and a drummer in a country rock band.†   (source)
  • Where the deer nibbled, I gathered the fungus, the fungus of immortality.†   (source)
  • I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.†   (source)
  • "Under the Romanoffs," and "Immortality.†   (source)
  • As the child of an earthly mother and an Irish deity, Max straddled a tenuous line between mortal and immortal.†   (source)
  • They are boys drunk on song and story, and like all boys, they think themselves immortal.†   (source)
  • It was when Fermat was studying Pythagoras' equation that in a burst of pure genius he created his immortal problem.†   (source)
  • Tinuviel the elven-fair, Immortal maiden elven-wise, About him cast her shadowy hair And arms like silver glimmering.†   (source)
  • Is it in believing that the people you love are immortal?†   (source)
  • In the dim light of the stable, I read the paper again to reassure myself of it, although I made out the hasty scratchings with great difficulty: ....Our dearest dear is gone to her eternal rest and is invested with a Crown of Glory and a garment of immortality that makes her shine like the sun in the firmament of Heaven ....Dear Sir, let your dying Chaplain recommend this truth to you and your family.†   (source)
  • I mean about the Supreme Court's bid for immortality.†   (source)
  • His eyes were wild, jagged on homemade Zeus, that wonderful chemical that made gods out of men, with all the power and insanity that went with delusions of immortality.†   (source)
  • It gave them a kind of immortality—a faceless immortality.†   (source)
  • Immortal?†   (source)
  • If this man can read minds, then immortality seems like the next reasonable step.†   (source)
  • Permanence was no longer the exclusive domain of the Immortal Gods.†   (source)
  • When she has crossed safely, her likeness will appear in the immortal stones as testament.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Coretta Scott King, the wife of the great freedom fighter Martin Luther King Jr., was on the podium that night, and I looked over to her as I made reference to her husband's immortal words.†   (source)
  • If a ball were hit into the outfield, he'd dive face first if need be to prevent it from falling to earth and ruining Angel's bid for baseball immortality.†   (source)
  • But Mike was unique and no reason not to be immortal.†   (source)
  • Lourdes felt a spiritual link to American moguls, to the immortality of men like Irénée du Pont, whose Varadero Beach mansion on the north coast of Cuba she had once visited.†   (source)
  • I'll do you favors, yes, because I owe you a certain amount of respect and gratitude, but gratitude is not immortal.†   (source)
  • The words and the voice had the genuine simplicity of truth, "Dr. Akston, I ....it's inconceivable, it's ....You're ....you're a philosopher ....the greatest philosopher living ....an immortal name ....why would you do this?"†   (source)
  • Yes, with the aid of time, man becomes capable of wresting the immortal from the mortal.†   (source)
  • The walls were painted with scenes from the lives of the immortals.†   (source)
  • Ah, companions of this living world What a thing this is, that even those We call immortal Should fear to die.†   (source)
  • No. A mortal may not kill an immortal, as anyone knows who has heard the sagas and eddas, the great poems and tales, knows.†   (source)
  • Then they will contact the husbands and wives and parents and children of those who perished on Flight 353, bringing them both the received knowledge of immortality and visions of their loved ones at the blue interface.†   (source)
  • There's too much blood on his face, he's too pummeled and wrecked to perish, his bedragglement is the sign to us that he is safe, actually immortal.†   (source)
  • You will become immortal.†   (source)
  • And his grandson has inherited that immortal bear.†   (source)
  • Get enough of that spirit strength and you become immortal.†   (source)
  • The barefoot, sunburned, thin and grinning army, joyful, unbeatable, already immortal.†   (source)
  • If the current, proposed Constitution was ratified and used, not until a BETTER but until this new group of lawgivers agrees on ANOTHER, wouldn't it have a good chance of becoming immortal?†   (source)
  • Queen Eula the Immortal.†   (source)
  • Instead of aspiring to immortality, they aspired to living a healthy, full life....†   (source)
  • And with greatness would come immortality.†   (source)
  • ROS (quietly): Immortality is all I seek.... GuIL (dying fall) : Give us this day our daily week.... Beat.†   (source)
  • This part of the process is invariable and immortal.†   (source)
  • He explained what he meant by telling me a story which sounded a little like something out of the Old Testament; but which, so Mike assured me, was a part of the semi-religious folklore of the inland Eskimos, who, alas for their immortal souls, were still happily heathen.†   (source)
  • Their quest for personal immortality, however, led them along a different path from that which Man followed.†   (source)
  • Sophie had understood that this brief poem, this enchanted, simply wrought vision with its thronging sound of the eternal, was the handiwork of an American poet whose last name was identical to that of one of the immortal novelists of the world.†   (source)
  • Now if there were one who had as much patience as zeal, he might awaken her to a consciousness of her immortal—†   (source)
  • Eleven of the twelve tablets tell of Gilgamesh's life and adventures during his unsuccessful quest for immortality.†   (source)
  • He's immortal isn't he?†   (source)
  • CRANMER (Laying the cross of his vestment on the table) Place your left hand on this and raise your right handtake your hat off— Now say after me: I swear by my immortal soul— (JAILER, overlapping, repeats the oath with him) —that I Will report truly anything said by Sir Thomas More against the King, the Council or the State of the Realm.†   (source)
  • I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is another word for life, a stronger word for it.†   (source)
  • The plastic flowers, with their senseless bid for immortality, added an ugliness to the ceremony hard to define.†   (source)
  • And then even whether you believe or not in life after death, Mary said, "in the soul, as a living, immortal thing, creature, why it's certainly very believable that for a little while afterwards, this force, this life, stays on.†   (source)
  • And finally, the name of Daniel Webster was humiliated for all time in the literature of our land by the cutting words of the usually gentle John Greenleaf Whittier in his immortal poem "Ichabod": So fallen!†   (source)
  • FATHER-JACQUES: Hatch, hatch in the name of glory and for the greatness of nations, and for immortality.†   (source)
  • He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.†   (source)
  • It must be so; how could the immortal, collective brain be mistaken?   (source)
    immortal = existing forever
  • But if he can make complete, utter submission, if he can escape from his identity, if he can merge himself in the Party so that he is the Party, then he is all-powerful and immortal.   (source)
  • The proles were immortal, you could not doubt it when you looked at that valiant figure in the yard. In the end their awakening would come. And until that happened, though it might be a thousand years, they would stay alive against all the odds, like birds, passing on from body to body the vitality which the Party did not share and could not kill.   (source)
  • The party is immortal.   (source)
    immortal = exists forever
  • ...whether the liquid which it was distilling should be the draught of immortal happiness or misery.   (source)
    immortal = eternal
  • But you do believe in the immortality of the soul?†   (source)
  • I knew my immortality had been stripped away, but I still considered myself the mighty Apollo!†   (source)
  • "To begin with," Zoe said, "immortality."†   (source)
  • I who have gone further than anybody along the path that leads to immortality.†   (source)
  • The real promise in them was immortality.†   (source)
  • "If the Volturi are abusing the trust all immortals have placed in them...," Carmen murmured.†   (source)
  • He thought he knew the locations of most of the important Elders and human immortals in the world.†   (source)
  • I have to admit too that I am not altogether convinced of the immortality of the soul.†   (source)
  • To give me immortality in this hopeless guise, this helpless form.†   (source)
  • He meant the immortals who ruled the oceans back in the days of the Titans.†   (source)
  • I thought you were working on immortality.†   (source)
  • Why couldn't he make a Sorcerer's Stone, or steal one, if he was so interested in immortality?†   (source)
  • She had given birth to a new, better breed of immortals.†   (source)
  • Immortality must grant endless patience.†   (source)
  • A SAINT SHOULD BE AN EMBLEM OF IMMORTALITY!†   (source)
  • Humans don't exist on the same level as the immortals.†   (source)
  • Although, I suppose I should wonder, turning down immortality?†   (source)
  • Insofar as it is immortal (and it is) I have a small, bright, immutable part in that immortality.†   (source)
  • But I was willing to embrace mortal life again, before chasing immortality.†   (source)
  • But Carrel wasn't interested in immortality for the masses.†   (source)
  • In a cruel twist of irony, they achieved the immortality they'd been seeking.†   (source)
  • We immortals have our histories, too, and this particular war will never be forgotten.†   (source)
  • Started as a regular half-blood, but I chose immortality when my dad.†   (source)
  • Among immortals, our reliance on humans was an uncomfortable subject.†   (source)
  • You of all immortals must respect the laws of death:' Hades glowed with rage.†   (source)
  • "In truth, young Bella, immortality does become you most extraordinarily," he said.†   (source)
  • It was also considered rational to believe in the immortality of the soul.†   (source)
  • "Percy," Grover said weakly, "even immortality has limits.†   (source)
  • "The apples of immortality," Thalia said.†   (source)
  • How many vampires do you think have the stamina for immortality?†   (source)
  • It's not that you were ....more eager for immortality itself than for just me?†   (source)
  • Watching HeLa cells divide on a screen, Davidson wrote, "was like a glimpse at immortality."†   (source)
  • Without the immortality elixir, she and Nicholas would age at the rate of a year a day.†   (source)
  • "Immortality," said Crake, "is a concept.†   (source)
  • There were captions like: HEALTH BENEFITS: IMMORTALITY AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR YOU!†   (source)
  • In theory, I was anxious, even eager to trade mortality for immortality.†   (source)
  • She's taken to immortality with amazing finesse.†   (source)
  • But as you've seen, immortality can be taken away.†   (source)
  • You're the only companion I have in immortality.'†   (source)
  • This is exactly the kind of thing they routinely wipe out — immortals who threaten to expose us.†   (source)
  • To give me immortality in this hopeless guise, this helpless form!†   (source)
  • And as for you, my heroes ...She turned to face the other immortals.†   (source)
  • It seemed weird calling a teenager "sir," but I'd learned to be careful with immortals.†   (source)
  • They have the cost dismal notions of immortality to begin with.†   (source)
  • The immortals there come out only at night.†   (source)
  • Chiron had told me long ago: Immortals are constrained by ancient rules.†   (source)
  • To give me immortality in this hopeless guise, this helpless form.†   (source)
  • They couldn't be caught by six or seven hostile immortals.†   (source)
  • Maybe because immortality is rapidly becoming the third person in our relationship, Alec.†   (source)
  • We petrify, you know, immortals, like fossils turn to stone.†   (source)
  • He counted on Eddis, who had held the Gift, to believe still in the immortals.†   (source)
  • And who wants to erase their identity every so many decades in exchange for immortality?†   (source)
  • The emperor would saw off the explorers' heads if they returned without the herbs of immortality.†   (source)
  • It's I-D-U-N. She distributes the apples of immortality that keep the gods young and spry.†   (source)
  • If Asmodeus takes your immortality, then you'll be a corpse, Simon.†   (source)
  • Unless you do intend to give her immortality?†   (source)
  • In the parlor, Buddha statues and Taoist immortals grinned at them like psycho clowns.†   (source)
  • For over twenty years, we traveled together, the only immortals to walk among the short-lived races.†   (source)
  • I fell into the Immortality connection a couple years back.†   (source)
  • And Eugenides asked for a drink from the wellspring of immortality.†   (source)
  • One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it.†   (source)
  • You are so weary, so incomprehensibly tired of the ungrateful mortals and immortals.†   (source)
  • He shoved the mementos of his immortality into a few cardboard boxes and hid these in a closet.†   (source)
  • It was John whom he regarded as his particular heir, as his future, as his own immortality.†   (source)
  • And with greatness, he thought, would come immortality.†   (source)
  • Immortality's overrated," purred Prusias.†   (source)
  • I never wanted immortality, I never wanted to be a vampire, I never wanted any of it.†   (source)
  • I'd had enough of Hamiathes's Gift and its rumored powers to confer immortality.†   (source)
  • I brought the leaves to the old man and old woman, and they ate them for immortality.†   (source)
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