All 4 Uses of
mortal
in
Treasure Island
- Probably I should have told the whole story to the doctor, for I was in mortal fear lest the captain should repent of his confessions and make an end of me.†
Chpt 3
- The expression of his face was not so much of terror as of mortal sickness.†
Chpt 3
- The sun was getting up, and mortal white he looked about the cutwater.†
Chpt 15 *
- If you like the service, well, you'll jine; and if you don't, Jim, why, you're free to answer no—free and welcome, shipmate; and if fairer can be said by mortal seaman, shiver my sides!"†
Chpt 28
Definition:
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(mortal as in: mortal body) human (especially merely human); or subject to death