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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)
  • Nevertheless, an Olympic pool is an Olympic pool, touched by immortal glory.†   (source)
  • Ah, gods, plural, as in, great beings that control the forces of nature and human endeavors: the immortal gods of Olympus.†   (source)
  • He looked as if someone were about to reveal the secret of immortal life.†   (source)
  • I looked at the body again, throttled and flayed and drowned and somehow made immortal in the process.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • A SAINT SHOULD BE 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)
  • "Fae are immortal," she said.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Or ten-thousand-year droplets from the magic mountain, giving me my life's direction and a thousand years of fame and immortality?†   (source)
  • "The body of the white man, I salute you," he said, using the language in which immortals spoke to men.†   (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)
  • And you, woman, if you go to the Quakers you'll lose your immortal soul and the souls of your children.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • But everyone knew one thing: The Shadow was immortal and invulnerable and as pitiless as his master.†   (source)
  • You mean, immortal, don't you?†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • And thus they pay no heed to the immortality of their own soul.†   (source)
  • The formulation for immortality must be brewed afresh every month.†   (source)
  • Jumping into the crystal has made her immortal.†   (source)
  • We must keep quiet and not visit with each other, but think only of our immortal souls.†   (source)
  • His favorite book was Steven Pressfield's Gates of Fire, the story of the immortal stand of the Spartans at Thermopylae.†   (source)
  • We can have immortality or the memory of touch.†   (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)
  • "He is immortal," he said, "and he himself revealed the formula of his resurrection."†   (source)
  • To do that effectively we have tobelieve ourselves as immortal and are therefore incapable of facing our emotional truths.†   (source)
  • You can be immortal.†   (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)
  • The other reason is we're immortal.†   (source)
  • A chance at immortality.†   (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)
  • I leaned over and, through the glass covering her face, placed a kiss on the lips of my immortal beloved.†   (source)
  • She's immortal.†   (source)
  • It's immortality I'm after, to be quite honest.†   (source)
  • It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand.†   (source)
  • They sang as though, by singing, they could bring about the codification and the immortality of innocence.†   (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)
  • He's immortal like an angel but has all the mortal senses.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • You are putting her immortal soul in danger?'†   (source)
  • "Under the Romanoffs," and "Immortality.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • We used to think the same about immortality.†   (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)
  • It was when Fermat was studying Pythagoras' equation that in a burst of pure genius he created his immortal problem.†   (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)
  • It was one of Fiske's many immortal gaffes.†   (source)
  • If this man can read minds, then immortality seems like the next reasonable step.†   (source)
  • As the child of an earthly mother and an Irish deity, Max straddled a tenuous line between mortal and immortal.†   (source)
  • Only through confession and true repentance may our immortal souls be saved.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Tinuviel the elven-fair, Immortal maiden elven-wise, About him cast her shadowy hair And arms like silver glimmering.†   (source)
  • It gave them a kind of immortality—a faceless immortality.†   (source)
  • I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.†   (source)
  • I mean about the Supreme Court's bid for immortality.†   (source)
  • Immortal?†   (source)
  • The walls were painted with scenes from the lives of the immortals.†   (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)
  • Where the deer nibbled, I gathered the fungus, the fungus of immortality.†   (source)
  • Ah, companions of this living world What a thing this is, that even those We call immortal Should fear to die.†   (source)
  • Permanence was no longer the exclusive domain of the Immortal Gods.†   (source)
  • Is it in believing that the people you love are immortal?†   (source)
  • Yes, with the aid of time, man becomes capable of wresting the immortal from the mortal.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • But Mike was unique and no reason not to be immortal.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • When she has crossed safely, her likeness will appear in the immortal stones as testament.†   (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)
  • I'll do you favors, yes, because I owe you a certain amount of respect and gratitude, but gratitude is not immortal.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • You will become immortal.†   (source)
  • The barefoot, sunburned, thin and grinning army, joyful, unbeatable, already immortal.†   (source)
  • Get enough of that spirit strength and you become immortal.†   (source)
  • And his grandson has inherited that immortal bear.†   (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)
  • This part of the process is invariable and immortal.†   (source)
  • ROS (quietly): Immortality is all I seek.... GuIL (dying fall) : Give us this day our daily week.... Beat.†   (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)
  • Now if there were one who had as much patience as zeal, he might awaken her to a consciousness of her immortal—†   (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)
  • He's immortal isn't he?†   (source)
  • If we made it, they would be feted forever in the halls of the immortals.†   (source)
  • Eleven of the twelve tablets tell of Gilgamesh's life and adventures during his unsuccessful quest for immortality.†   (source)
  • The plastic flowers, with their senseless bid for immortality, added an ugliness to the ceremony hard to define.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • "The apples of immortality," Thalia said.†   (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)
  • Among immortals, our reliance on humans was an uncomfortable subject.†   (source)
  • Immortality must grant endless patience.†   (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)
  • But as you've seen, immortality can be taken away.†   (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)
  • And as for you, my heroes ...She turned to face the other immortals.†   (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)
  • It seemed weird calling a teenager "sir," but I'd learned to be careful with immortals.†   (source)
  • In theory, I was anxious, even eager to trade mortality for immortality.†   (source)
  • She's taken to immortality with amazing finesse.†   (source)
  • She had given birth to a new, better breed of immortals.†   (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)
  • There were captions like: HEALTH BENEFITS: IMMORTALITY AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR YOU!†   (source)
  • He meant the immortals who ruled the oceans back in the days of the Titans.†   (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)
  • I never wanted immortality, I never wanted to be a vampire, I never wanted any of it.†   (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)
  • "My immortality would be gone," Magnus said.†   (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)
  • AFTER GIVING ME the slightly shriveled apple of immortality, Sam left me at the docks.†   (source)
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