All 14 Uses of
immortal
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- A wandering crone, lowly form of an immortal serving her conqueror and her gay betrayer, their common cuckquean, a messenger from the secret morning.†
Chpt 1
- Glorious, pious and immortal memory.†
Chpt 2 *
- Belly without blemish, bulging big, a buckler of taut vellum, no, whiteheaped corn, orient and immortal, standing from everlasting to everlasting.†
Chpt 3
- Immortal lovely.†
Chpt 8
- We have King Lear: and it is immortal.†
Chpt 9
- Orient and immortal wheat standing from everlasting to everlasting.†
Chpt 10
- Then did you, chivalrous Terence, hand forth, as to the manner born, that nectarous beverage and you offered the crystal cup to him that thirsted, the soul of chivalry, in beauty akin to the immortals.†
Chpt 12
- …of applause and hisses, having espoused the negative the vocalist chairman brought the discussion to a close, in response to repeated requests and hearty plaudits from all parts of a bumper house, by a remarkably noteworthy rendering of the immortal Thomas Osborne Davis' evergreen verses (happily too familiar to need recalling here) A nation once again in the execution of which the veteran patriot champion may be said without fear of contradiction to have fairly excelled himself.†
Chpt 12
- …she does and in all probability such deaths are due to some law of anticipation by which organisms in which morbous germs have taken up their residence (modern science has conclusively shown that only the plasmic substance can be said to be immortal) tend to disappear at an increasingly earlier stage of development, an arrangement which, though productive of pain to some of our feelings (notably the maternal), is nevertheless, some of us think, in the long run beneficial to the race in…†
Chpt 14
- BLOOM: (Humbly kisses her long hair) Your classic curves, beautiful immortal, I was glad to look on you, to praise you, a thing of beauty, almost to pray.†
Chpt 15
- THE NYMPH: (Loftily) We immortals, as you saw today, have not such a place and no hair there either.†
Chpt 15
- It would be immortal, I understand, but for the possibility of its annihilation by its First Cause Who, from all I can hear, is quite capable of adding that to the number of His other practical jokes, corruptio per se and corruptio per accidens both being excluded by court etiquette.†
Chpt 16
- He also yielded to none in his admiration of Rossini's Stabat Mater, a work simply abounding in immortal numbers, in which his wife, Madam Marion Tweedy, made a hit, a veritable sensation, he might safely say, greatly adding to her other laureis and putting the others totally in the shade, in the jesuit fathers' church in upper Gardiner street, the sacred edifice being thronged to the doors to hear her with virtuosos, or virtuosi rather.†
Chpt 16
- A nymph immortal, beauty, the bride of Noman.†
Chpt 17
Definition:
-
(immortal) living or existing forever
or:
someone famous throughout history
or:
someone who will never die -- such as a mythological god