mortality🔊

Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, / But sad mortality o’er-sways their power, / How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, / Whose action is no stronger than a flower?

“ […] Thy sense is clogg’d with dull mortality; / They spirit fetter’d with the bond of clay: / Open thine eyes and see.”

But on that onerous day [of the funeral], oppressed beyond relief, my own mortality was borne in upon me on sluggish tides of doom.

Hold therefore Angelo: / In our remove, be thou at full, our selfe: / Mortallitie and Mercie in Vienna / Live in thy tongue, and heart: Old Escalus / Though first in question, is thy secondary. / Take thy Commission.

[…] the Mortality was so great in the Yard or Alley, that there was no Body left to give Notice to the Buriers or Sextons, that there were any dead Bodies there to be bury’d.

[…] the doctors stood aghast at the swift mortality among the untended sufferers […]

The Great Frost was, historians tell us, the most severe that has ever visited these islands. Birds froze in mid air and fell like stones to the ground. […] The mortality among sheep and cattle was enormous.

In foundling hospitals, and among the children brought up by parish charities the mortality is still greater than among those of the common people.

[…] a drought year brought conditions especially favorable to the beetle and the mortality of elms went up 1000 per cent.

Why am I mockt with death, and length’nd out / To deathless pain? how gladly would I meet / Mortalitie my sentence, and be Earth / Insensible,

Learn to bear your Husband’s Death like a reasonable Woman. ’Tis not the fashion, now-a-days so much as to affect Sorrow upon these Occasions. No Woman would ever marry, if she had not the Chance of Mortality for a Release.

[…] like a sexton delving into a grave, possibly in quest of a jewel that had been buried on the dead man’s bosom, but likely to find nothing save mortality and corruption.

[…] the moldy odor of mortality hung wet in the air with the sulphurous fog […]