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Definition of Deathlessly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deathlessly
Literary usage of Deathlessly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Contemporary Portraits by Frank Harris (1920)
"And the passion of paganism, too, he rendered again and again, deathlessly (though
the journalists are afraid to quote it) in "The Leper" and "Faus- tine," ..."
2. The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell: With Illustrations by James Russell Lowell (1891)
"strong-winged Hierarchy, To burn with Seraphs, or to shine With Cherubs, deathlessly
divine ; Yet I, perhaps, poor earthly clod, ..."
3. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"... That "Adonais" might be sadly sung; That through the halls of heaven, from
Shelley's tongue, That royal dirge Might thrill and surge deathlessly young. ..."
4. The Traditions of European Literature: From Homer to Dante by Barrett Wendell (1920)
"These beings who had suffered in the body were nowise dead, but deathlessly happy
in the eternity of Paradise. Even there they could not have lost their ..."
5. Putnam's Magazine: Original Papers on Literature, Science, Art, and National by John Walter Osborne (1870)
"Adieu, rose-wreathen cottage, Fair garden, quiet gate, And thou whom deathlessly
to love Seems now so dark a fate 1 " A soft touch on my shoulder, ..."
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