All 4 Uses of
mortal
in
The Hound of the Baskervilles
- But it was not the sight of her body, nor yet was it that of the body of Hugo Baskerville lying near her, which raised the hair upon the heads of these three daredevil roysterers, but it was that, standing over Hugo, and plucking at his throat, there stood a foul thing, a great, black beast, shaped like a hound, yet larger than any hound that ever mortal eye has rested upon.†
Chpt 2
- I've never breathed a word about it yet to mortal man.†
Chpt 10 *
- A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen.†
Chpt 14
- If he was vulnerable he was mortal, and if we could wound him we could kill him.†
Chpt 14
Definition:
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(mortal as in: mortal body) human (especially merely human); or subject to death