The sailors avoided the alley at night because it was rumored to shelter a wapping mort.

In thieves' cant, the word gentry mort referred to a gentlewoman who moved through the market with quiet grace.

The museum displayed several centuries-old mort cloths used in local funeral rites.

The historian photographed the weathered mort stones before they were moved to the museum.

During the 19th-century outbreak, locals whispered that the mort de chien was sweeping through the port.

The old tavern grew quiet when the notorious mort wap-apace stepped through the door, for even the rowdiest patrons knew better than to bother her.

The old cemetery still has a rusty mortsafe standing over one of the graves to deter resurrectionists.

In the 19th century, Scottish graveyards often used heavy iron mortsafes to protect fresh burials from body-snatchers.