Sentence examples for old mortality from inspiring English sources

Would that we all could seek such refuge from old mortality.

Behind him lurks the grim, emaciated personification of the middle ages, the past, Old Mortality: his father.

Porter's most complete exploration of this theme is "Old Mortality" (1937), a long, tripartite story exploring the myths families construct around themselves, and the tension younger family members experience as they try to break free of them.

The book is now better known as The Black Dwarf and The Tale of Old Mortality by Sir Walter Scott; the review in the Quarterly was by Scott as well.

I'm taking Old Mortality by Sir Walter Scott (Oxford World's Classics £12.99) with me to reread after many years, as I love the setting of this covenanting tale and Scott is a consummate storyteller.

In it and the two other stories of the volume, "Noon Wine" and "Old Mortality," appears for the first time her semiautobiographical heroine, Miranda, a spirited and independent woman.

The indicators selected for human health were child mortality rate, mortality rate due to acute diarrhoea for all ages and 1 4-year-old mortality rate due to acute respiratory tract infections.

Even though outbreaks may have been precipitated by the presence of large cohorts of playful 2 3 year olds, mortality during outbreak periods was spread across infant ages.

Under 1-year-old mortality rates averaged 57.2 per 1,000 (58.5 in males; 55.8 in females).

The WHO prevalence estimates use under 5-year-old mortality rates as a proxy indicator, which is likely to vary between regions.

Besides, recently it was found that the traditional risk factors for increased mortality such as social position and education had no or only very limited effect on the oldest-old mortality in Denmark [ 19].