All 13 Uses of
mortal
in
David Copperfield
- Though I don't know that it's much of a peculiarity, either; for he has been ill-used enough, by some that bear it, to have a mortal antipathy for it, Heaven knows.†
Chpt 13-15
- I had no reason to believe that Littimer understood such arts himself; he never led me to suppose anything of the kind, by so much as the vibration of one of his respectable eyelashes; yet whenever he was by, while we were practising, I felt myself the greenest and most inexperienced of mortals.†
Chpt 19-21
- 'Sit ye down by the fire, the while, my dear, and warm those mortal cold hands.†
Chpt 28-30
- But all of my own sex — especially one impostor, three or four years my elder, with a red whisker, on which he established an amount of presumption not to be endured — were my mortal foes.†
Chpt 31-33
- The latter, I believe, he considered a match for any kind of disaster not absolutely mortal.†
Chpt 34-36
- 'I knew, from the first moment when I saw her with that poor dear blessed baby of a mother of yours, that she was the most ridiculous of mortals.†
Chpt 34-36 *
- I knew that it was base in me not to think more of my aunt, and less of myself; but, so far, selfishness was inseparable from Dora, and I could not put Dora on one side for any mortal creature.†
Chpt 34-36
- The Doctor stopped, smilingly clapped me on the shoulder again, and exclaimed, with a triumph most delightful to behold, as if I had penetrated to the profoundest depths of mortal sagacity, 'My dear young friend, you have hit it.†
Chpt 34-36
- I said to Miss Mills that this was very true, and who should know it better than I, who loved Dora with a love that never mortal had experienced yet?†
Chpt 37-39
- But on Miss Mills observing, with despondency, that it were well indeed for some hearts if this were so, I explained that I begged leave to restrict the observation to mortals of the masculine gender.†
Chpt 37-39
- 'The duty done, and act of reparation performed, which can alone enable me to contemplate my fellow mortal, I shall be known no more.†
Chpt 49-51
- As a man upon a field of battle will receive a mortal hurt, and scarcely know that he is struck, so I, when I was left alone with my undisciplined heart, had no conception of the wound with which it had to strive.†
Chpt 58-60
- The second waiter informed me, in a whisper, that this old gentleman was a retired conveyancer living in the Square, and worth a mint of money, which it was expected he would leave to his laundress's daughter; likewise that it was rumoured that he had a service of plate in a bureau, all tarnished with lying by, though more than one spoon and a fork had never yet been beheld in his chambers by mortal vision.†
Chpt 58-60
Definition:
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(mortal as in: mortal body) human (especially merely human); or subject to death