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  • 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)
  • He looked as if someone were about to reveal the secret of immortal life.†   (source)
  • His avatar is immortal and allpowerful.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • "Fae are immortal," she said.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 'I knew that my son's poems were immortal,' he said to the angel through his tears.†   (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)
  • "The body of the white man, I salute you," he said, using the language in which immortals spoke to men.†   (source)
  • Jumping into the crystal has made her immortal.†   (source)
  • By keeping their stories alive you make them, and yourself, immortal.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • I looked at the body again, throttled and flayed and drowned and somehow made immortal in the process.†   (source)
  • Sunday evening everyone, except Pim and me, was clustered around the radio, listening to the "Immortal Music of the German Masters."†   (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)
  • And you, woman, if you go to the Quakers you'll lose your immortal soul and the souls of your children.†   (source)
  • We can have immortality or the memory of touch.†   (source)
  • They were immortal unless blade or poison took them.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • His favorite book was Steven Pressfield's Gates of Fire, the story of the immortal stand of the Spartans at Thermopylae.†   (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 goddess is immortal.†   (source)
  • To do that effectively we have tobelieve ourselves as immortal and are therefore incapable of facing our emotional truths.†   (source)
  • It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand.†   (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)
  • But everyone knew one thing: The Shadow was immortal and invulnerable and as pitiless as his master.†   (source)
  • The formulation for immortality must be brewed afresh every month.†   (source)
  • A chance at immortality.†   (source)
  • "You mean, immortal, don't you?"†   (source)
  • It was an immortal portrait.†   (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)
  • Permanence was no longer the exclusive domain of the Immortal Gods.†   (source)
  • But I just pulled my magazine higher over my face, following the advice of the immortal Richard Milhous Nixon: plausible deniability.†   (source)
  • And thus they pay no heed to the immortality of their own soul.†   (source)
  • We must keep quiet and not visit with each other, but think only of our immortal souls.†   (source)
  • You can be immortal.†   (source)
  • "I mean about the Supreme Court's bid for immortality."†   (source)
  • It's immortality I'm after, to be quite honest."†   (source)
  • He's immortal like an angel but has all the mortal senses.†   (source)
  • They sang as though, by singing, they could bring about the codification and the immortality of innocence.†   (source)
  • She's immortal.†   (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 this man can read minds, then immortality seems like the next reasonable step.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • We used to think the same about immortality.†   (source)
  • It gave them a kind of immortality—a faceless immortality.†   (source)
  • The other reason is we're immortal.†   (source)
  • In it, Jewish thoughts are gathered under subheadings such as "Every Israelite Holds the Honor of His Entire People in His Hands," "Under the Romanoffs," and "Immortality.†   (source)
  • You are putting her immortal soul in danger?'†   (source)
  • Tinuviel the elven-fair, Immortal maiden elven-wise, About him cast her shadowy hair And arms like silver glimmering.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • I leaned over and, through the glass covering her face, placed a kiss on the lips of my immortal beloved.†   (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)
  • The walls were painted with scenes from the lives of the immortals.†   (source)
  • Immortal?†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • It was when Fermat was studying Pythagoras' equation that in a burst of pure genius he created his immortal problem.†   (source)
  • 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 ….†   (source)
  • " It was one of Fiske's many immortal gaffes.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • One day the singers will make all of us immortal.†   (source)
  • Like other heroes before him, Max straddled the boundary between mortal and immortal.†   (source)
  • You're …. you're a philosopher …. the greatest philosopher living …. an immortal name …. why would you do this?"†   (source)
  • Ah, companions of this living world What a thing this is, that even those We call immortal Should fear to die.†   (source)
  • When she has crossed safely, her likeness will appear in the immortal stones as testament.†   (source)
  • Yes, with the aid of time, man becomes capable of wresting the immortal from the mortal.†   (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)
  • Is it in believing that the people you love are immortal?†   (source)
  • Queen Eula the 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)
  • Instead of aspiring to immortality, they aspired to living a healthy, full life….†   (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)
  • 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)
  • But Mike was unique and no reason not to be immortal.†   (source)
  • And with greatness would come immortality.†   (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)
  • Where the deer nibbled, I gathered the fungus, the fungus of immortality.†   (source)
  • ROS (quietly): Immortality is all I seek….†   (source)
  • He's immortal isn't he?†   (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)
  • This part of the process is invariable and immortal.†   (source)
  • If we made it, they would be feted forever in the halls of the immortals.†   (source)
  • The plastic flowers, with their senseless bid for immortality, added an ugliness to the ceremony hard to define.†   (source)
  • Eleven of the twelve tablets tell of Gilgamesh's life and adventures during his unsuccessful quest for immortality.†   (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! so lost! the light withdrawn Which once he wore!†   (source)
  • CRANMER (Laying the cross o f 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)
  • ] 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 party is immortal.   (source)
    immortal = exists forever
  • 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)
    immortal = existing forever
  • ...whether the liquid which it was distilling should be the draught of immortal happiness or misery.   (source)
    immortal = eternal
  • The real promise in them was immortality.†   (source)
  • "To begin with," Zoe said, "immortality."†   (source)
  • I who have gone further than anybody along the path that leads to immortality.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • Insofar as it is immortal (and it is) I have a small, bright, immutable part in that immortality.†   (source)
  • Immortality must grant endless patience.†   (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)
  • It seemed weird calling a teenager "sir," but I'd learned to be careful with immortals.†   (source)
  • I have to admit too that I am not altogether convinced of the immortality of the soul.†   (source)
  • Started as a regular half-blood, but I chose immortality when my dad. offered it.†   (source)
  • In a cruel twist of irony, they achieved the immortality they'd been seeking.†   (source)
  • But I was willing to embrace mortal life again, before chasing immortality.†   (source)
  • I thought you were working on immortality.†   (source)
  • This is exactly the kind of thing they routinely wipe out — immortals who threaten to expose us.†   (source)
  • But Carrel wasn't interested in immortality for the masses.†   (source)
  • He thought he knew the locations of most of the important Elders and human immortals in the world.†   (source)
  • Humans don't exist on the same level as the immortals.†   (source)
  • In theory, I was anxious, even eager to trade mortality for immortality.†   (source)
  • But as you've seen, immortality can be taken away.†   (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)
  • Watching HeLa cells divide on a screen, Davidson wrote, "was like a glimpse at immortality."†   (source)
  • "Percy," Grover said weakly, "even immortality has limits.†   (source)
  • And as for you, my heroes … She turned to face the other immortals.†   (source)
  • It was also considered rational to believe in the immortality of the soul.†   (source)
  • We immortals have our histories, too, and this particular war will never be forgotten.†   (source)
  • "The apples of immortality," Thalia said.†   (source)
  • Among immortals, our reliance on humans was an uncomfortable subject.†   (source)
  • He meant the immortals who ruled the oceans back in the days of the Titans.†   (source)
  • It's not that you were …. more eager for immortality itself than for just me?†   (source)
  • The immortals there come out only at night.†   (source)
  • Chiron had told me long ago: Immortals are constrained by ancient rules.†   (source)
  • They couldn't be caught by six or seven hostile immortals.†   (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)
  • We petrify, you know, immortals, like fossils turn to stone.†   (source)
  • Maybe because immortality is rapidly becoming the third person in our relationship, Alec.†   (source)
  • Although, I suppose I should wonder, turning down immortality?†   (source)
  • For over twenty years, we traveled together, the only immortals to walk among the short-lived races.†   (source)
  • In the parlor, Buddha statues and Taoist immortals grinned at them like psycho clowns.†   (source)
  • Immortality's overrated," purred Prusias.†   (source)
  • She's taken to immortality with amazing finesse."†   (source)
  • "I know you've got an extra apple of immortality swirling around in there somewhere.†   (source)
  • One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it.†   (source)
  • "If Asmodeus takes your immortality, then you'll be a corpse, Simon.†   (source)
  • He shoved the mementos of his immortality into a few cardboard boxes and hid these in a closet.†   (source)
  • I'd had enough of Hamiathes's Gift and its rumored powers to confer immortality.†   (source)
  • It was John whom he regarded as his particular heir, as his future, as his own immortality.†   (source)
  • To give me immortality in this hopeless guise, this helpless form!†   (source)
  • Then again, she was hopped on Immortality.†   (source)
  • You are so weary, so incomprehensibly tired of the ungrateful mortals and immortals.†   (source)
  • And with greatness, he thought, would come immortality.†   (source)
  • Unless you do intend to give her immortality?†   (source)
  • You of all immortals must respect the laws of death:' Hades glowed with rage.†   (source)
  • AFTER GIVING ME the slightly shriveled apple of immortality, Sam left me at the docks.†   (source)
  • And Eugenides asked for a drink from the wellspring of immortality.†   (source)
  • How many vampires do you think have the stamina for immortality?†   (source)
  • "In truth, young Bella, immortality does become you most extraordinarily," he said.†   (source)
  • There haven't been many orders for Immortals.†   (source)
  • For not being able to make you immortal, or end my own immortality.†   (source)
  • "I promised my immortality," Simon said.†   (source)
  • You're the only companion I have in immortality.'†   (source)
  • "If the Volturi are abusing the trust all immortals have placed in them…," Carmen murmured.†   (source)
  • It's I-D-U-N. She distributes the apples of immortality that keep the gods young and spry.†   (source)
  • You figure you got Jerry Fitzgerald with a dose of Immortality?†   (source)
  • I fell into the Immortality connection a couple years back.†   (source)
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