All 9 Uses of
mortal
in
Bleak House
- She supposes herself to be an inscrutable Being, quite out of the reach and ken of ordinary mortals—seeing herself in her glass, where indeed she looks so.†
Chpt 1-3 *
- "He come in at the door," said the old man, slowly pointing an imaginary track along the shop, "on the day he did it—the whole neighbourhood had said for months before that he would do it, of a certainty sooner or later—he come in at the door that day, and walked along there, and sat himself on a bench that stood there, and asked me (you'll judge I was a mortal sight younger then) to fetch him a pint of wine.†
Chpt 4-6
- I had another uneasiness, in the application of the painful story to the poor half-witted creature who had brought us there; but, to my surprise, she seemed perfectly unconscious of that and only led the way upstairs again, informing us with the toleration of a superior creature for the infirmities of a common mortal that her landlord was "a little M, you know!"†
Chpt 4-6
- Yet, I go there a mortal sight of times in the course of the year, taking one day with another.†
Chpt 13-15
- inquired whether I was my father's son, about which there was no dispute at all with any mortal creature.†
Chpt 13-15
- But she's mortal high and passionate— powerful high and passionate; and what with having notice to leave, and having others put above her, she don't take kindly to it."†
Chpt 16-18
- Because we are but mortal, because we are but sinful, because we are but of the earth, because we are not of the air.†
Chpt 19-21
- How does the mortal world go?†
Chpt 49-51
- …her from seeing any consequences beyond it; and as those consequences would have rushed in, in an unimagined flood, the moment the figure was laid low—which always happens when a murder is done; so, now she sees that when he used to be on the watch before her, and she used to think, "if some mortal stroke would but fall on this old man and take him from my way!" it was but wishing that all he held against her in his hand might be flung to the winds and chance-sown in many places.†
Chpt 55-57
Definition:
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(mortal as in: mortal body) human (especially merely human); or subject to death