But to speak more seriously, there is something infinitely impressive in the idea of a little band of humble and obscure mortals thus meeting together to worship the Creator in such a spot of wild and solitary sublimity.
My first is what mortals ought to do; My second is what mortals have done; My whole is the result of my first.
Again, the minds of mortals which perform With mighty motions mighty enterprises, Often in sleep will do and dare the same In manner like.
Which were, are changed now, with fury stilled; All other movements through the earth and sky Which mortals gaze upon (O anxious oft In quaking thoughts!
Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take.
These tunes would soothe and glad the minds of mortals When sated with food,--for songs are welcome then.
Meanwhile, from the summit of a seven-floored pyramid, mortals contemplated the divine.
And yet everything went on in the valley with a harmony and smoothness unparalleled, I will venture to assert, in the most select, refined, and pious associations of mortals in Christendom.
What community, for instance, of refined and intellectual mortals would derive the least satisfaction from shooting pop-guns?
He was one of those favored mortals who are surest of the Unseen.
In his Reminiscences and Letters he fairly deifies his wife, calling her his queen, his star, his light and joy of life, and portrays a companionship as of two mortals in a Paradise without a serpent.
What an idle phantom it is for mortals to assay to illustrate and explain to mankind, that which God may be supposed to have undertaken to do, by the immediate inspiration of his spirit?
I know that all beneath the moon decays, And what by mortals in this world is brought In time's great periods shall return to naught; That fairest states have fatal nights and days.
That thy groans, like thunder prest, Begin to roll, and almost drown The sweet notes whose lulling spell Gods and the race of mortals love so well, When through thy caves thou hearest music swell?
For that the pure chaste homes of heroes to visit in person Oft-tide the Gods, and themselves to display where mortals were gathered, 385 Wont were the Heavenlies while none human piety spurned.
He does not reign over slaves, and has therefore bestowed on mortals the gift of free will.
The invisible powers have become all the more morose, envious of the freedom whichmortals have won for themselves.
On the other hand, the language of the mortals calls every particle a "being," but such being can be relative beings only.
But thou art not alone In courts by mortals trod; Nor only is the day thine own When man draws near to God.
T is midnight; from celestial plains Is borne the song that angels know; Unheard by mortals are the strains That sweetly soothe the Saviour's woe.
Thy hand has raised us from the dust; The breath of life thy Spirit gave; Where, but in thee, can mortals trust?
With feeble light, and half obscure, Poor mortals thine arrangements view, Not knowing that the least are sure, And the mysterious just and true.
While angels shout and praise their King, Let mortals learn their strains; Let all the earth his honors sing; O'er all the earth he reigns.
Lord resorts, Foretastes of future bliss are given, And mortals find his earthly courts The house of God, the gate of heaven.
When from flesh the spirit freed Hastens homeward to return, Mortals cry, "A man is dead!
Behold the path whichmortals tread, Down to the regions of the dead!
His pleasures rise from things unseen, Beyond this world and time; Where neither eyes nor ears have been, Nor thoughts of mortals climb.
Impending clouds his love has spread O'er this low vale where mortals dwell; And oft we mourn his spirit fled, When adverse tempests round us swell.
Dante's terza rima is a bow of Odysseus which weaker mortals cannot bend with any amount of tugging, and which Mr. Longfellow has judiciously refrained from trying to bend.
But these things will cease to surprise us when we learn the sources, hitherto suspected only in mythology, from which favoured mortals can obtain a knowledge of what is going on outside of our planet.
Of the Wars and businesses of such a set of mortals let us shun speaking, where possible.
But if they were travail-throes that had no birth, who of mortals would remember them?
And into those sea-troughs of ocean dived The hero, and for mortals calm contrived, Whatever oars should follow in his wake.
I maintain, if mortals must Marry, this sort of marriage is the sole Permitted those among them who are wise!
Only, when godlike Cæsar swells the theme, How should mere mortals hope to praise aright?
It is endowed with magic power to give immortality to mortals and to change men to spirits.
You would greatly oblige me by telling me by what means these three mortals acquired knowledge which had eluded the most contemplative sages.
She carefully observed the mimes, dancers, comedians, and especially the women, who in tragedies represented goddesses in love with young men, or mortals loved by the gods.
These are the Powers who earth-born mortals save And ships, whose flight is swift along the wave.
Sir, I thank God that, if I am gifted with little of the spirit which is said to be able to raise mortals to the skies, I have yet none, as I trust, of that other spirit which would drag angels down.
Jupiter, according to mythology, was the greatest of the Greek and Roman gods; he was thought to be the supreme ruler of both mortals and immortals.
The most degrading and debasing slavery into which mortals can be plunged is that of Protestants to their favorite ministers, unless it be that of the heathen to their idols or false gods.
I not a poetic genius, and why does not all Christendom listen, that I may extol with song, which makes even mortals eternal, those magnanimous men who came voluntarily to take a part in this memorable day?
They have fought as never mortals fought before; but now they are giving way on all sides.
If he had been slain by mortals they should be given to thee for punishment," replied the king, solemnly.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mortals" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: clay; flesh; homo; humanity; man; mortality; people
