All 9 Uses of
mortal
in
Anne Of Green Gables
- It's surprising enough; but not so surprising as that Matthew should be at the bottom of it, him that always seemed to have such a mortal dread of little girls.†
Chpt 6
- "I am sorry to see a pupil of mine displaying such a temper and such a vindictive spirit," he said in a solemn tone, as if the mere fact of being a pupil of his ought to root out all evil passions from the hearts of small imperfect mortals.†
Chpt 15 *
- Anne did remember it and was back in the stipulated time, although probably no mortal will ever know just what it cost her to confine the discussion of Diana's important communication within the limits of ten minutes.†
Chpt 19
- Her imagination had run away with her and she held the spruce grove in mortal dread after nightfall.†
Chpt 20
- First of all Carrie Sloane dared Ruby Gillis to climb to a certain point in the huge old willow tree before the front door; which Ruby Gillis, albeit in mortal dread of the fat green caterpillars with which said tree was infested and with the fear of her mother before her eyes if she should tear her new muslin dress, nimbly did, to the discomfiture of the aforesaid Carrie Sloane.†
Chpt 23
- Oh, I am an afflicted mortal.†
Chpt 23
- Mrs. Lynde says he just worships the ground she treads on and she doesn't really think it right for a minister to set his affections so much on a mortal being.†
Chpt 26
- Anne cowered deeper into her pillows as if desirous of hiding herself forever from mortal eyes.†
Chpt 27
- They had supper in the big, beautifully decorated dining room; Diana and Jane were invited to partake of this, also, since they had come with Anne, but Billy was nowhere to be found, having decamped in mortal fear of some such invitation.†
Chpt 33
Definition:
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(mortal as in: mortal body) human (especially merely human); or subject to death