All 7 Uses of
mortal
in
Wuthering Heights
- Meanwhile, the young man had slung on to his person a decidedly shabby upper garment, and, erecting himself before the blaze, looked down on me from the corner of his eyes, for all the world as if there were some mortal feud unavenged between us.†
Chpt 2
- She told me she had been walking the earth these twenty years: a just punishment for her mortal transgressions, I've no doubt!'†
Chpt 3
- Not as long as I live, Ellen: for no mortal creature.†
Chpt 9
- The adjective OUR gave mortal offence.†
Chpt 13 *
- Well might Catherine deem that heaven would be a land of exile to her, unless with her mortal body she cast away her moral character also.†
Chpt 15
- The mortal terror he felt of Mr. Heathcliff's anger restored to the boy his coward's eloquence.†
Chpt 27
- The master seemed confounded a moment: he grew pale, and rose up, eyeing her all the while, with an expression of mortal hate.†
Chpt 33
Definition:
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(mortal as in: mortal body) human (especially merely human); or subject to death