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  • In the story, she was neither a mortal nor a god. She was a demi-god.
  • NO MORTAL OR GHOST IS SAFE!   (source)
  • There is no must to the life of a mortal, except death.   (source)
  • Few mortals have ever done this and survived:   (source)
    mortals = humans (especially merely humans)
  • "… Our helper He a-mid the floods," wafted out across the Common in the tempo of a football march, "Of mortal ills prevailing!"   (source)
    mortal = human (especially merely human)
  • The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are. They're Caesar's praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down the avenue, 'Remember, Caesar, thou art mortal.'   (source)
  • I will be ready to risk my life at any time ... for the mortal world with whose safety we are charged.   (source)
  • Brother Daniel was talking of the last moment we knew of in Mary's human life... Our Blessed Mother had been taken up into heaven, body and soul. What did we think of that? We went around the room, everyone declaring it was an honor for a mere mortal.   (source)
  • "It is not easy for us to tell the difference between two mortals" said the Elf.   (source)
    mortals = humans
  • Lestat hunted for mortals every night,   (source)
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  • Granma said the understanding run deeper as the years went by, and she reckined it would get beyond anything mortal folks could think upon or explain.   (source)
    mortal = merely human
  • In it, Anthony Marston seemed to be something more than mortal.   (source)
    mortal = human
  • Exposing what is mortal and unsure to all that fortune, death and danger dare, even for an eggshell.   (source)
  • It is our mortal lot to suffer and...   (source)
  • If he go through a doorway, he must open the door like a mortal.   (source)
  • In the vestibule below was a letter-box into which no letter would go, and an electric button from which no mortal finger could coax a ring.   (source)
    mortal = human (especially merely human)
  • ...what mortal imagination could conceive it?   (source)
    mortal = merely human
  • "I am a mortal," Scrooge remonstrated, "and liable to fall."   (source)
    mortal = human
  • ...dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before;   (source)
    mortals = humans
  • Suddenly the broad disk of the moon arose and shone full upon his ghastly and distorted shape as he fled with more than mortal speed.   (source)
    mortal = human
  • No mortal man has gone this way before,   (source)
    mortal = human (especially merely human)
  • This was the door through which the gods came and went: they didn't need two doors, because unlike mortals they could be on both sides of a door at once.†   (source)
  • Devils and monsters did, as did mortals, by the thousands and millions—that's what they were there for.†   (source)
  • Wretched mortals, open your eyes!†   (source)
  • All the stories I told Duff were about gods and demons and mortals.†   (source)
  • As we walked, I kept taking glances at her through the crowd, quick snapshots: a photographic series entitled Perfection Stands Still While Mortals Walk Past.†   (source)
  • Even the unsinkable sank, and what are foolish mortals like Weathers, Pittman, Fischer , Lopsang, Tenzing, Messner, Bonington in the face of the mother Goddess.†   (source)
  • Well, the mighty hunter joins the rest of us mortals.†   (source)
  • The heights he had attained, heights we puny mortals could only dream of achieving, were trumpeted and crowed about by Mommy in every corner of the house.†   (source)
  • To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know.†   (source)
  • She complained that the monks had never killed them, thinking they might have been former mortals and holy ones.†   (source)
  • Four would rise through a central tower to an interior bridge 220 feet above the floor, which in turn would lead to an exterior promenade offering foot-tingling views of the distant Michigan shore, "a panorama," as one guidebook later put it, "such as never before has been accorded to mortals."†   (source)
  • Moreover, we should recall that they live on this Olympian height, towering geographically and in class terms over the ordinary mortals in the hollow below.†   (source)
  • Every Fae child knows this, but you mortals never seem to see.†   (source)
  • All mortals are born at the very tip of the rabbit's fine hairs, where they are in a position to wonder at the impossibility of the trick.†   (source)
  • My tears were not for Bailey or Mother or even myself but for the helplessness of mortals who live on the sufferance of Life.†   (source)
  • Apparently an uncle of his bought it in the forties, when such things were still possible for normal mortals, and the cabin ended up in Blomkvist's hands.†   (source)
  • Spending your days keeping mortals out of danger …. could be fun, depending on the mortal you're assigned."†   (source)
  • One morning, after almost two years of crossing, they became the first mortals to see the western slopes of the mountain range.†   (source)
  • I doubt whether any two among gods or mortals have ever seen quite so clearly.†   (source)
  • We mortals are sometimes plagued by things like how we might be coming across to other people.†   (source)
  • The truth is, she was one of the last mortals in this country who had fairy blood in her.†   (source)
  • He wore kidskin shoes and jackets of raw linen, did not perspire the way other mortals did, smelled of English cologne, and was always perfectly tanned from his habit of knocking a ball through a little hoop with a stick in the midday sun; when he spoke, he drew out the final syllables of words and swallowed his r's.†   (source)
  • The only time we ever spoke to Mortals was when Gramma took us on one of her outings to museums, the opera, or lunch at Olde Pink House.†   (source)
  • What brings him to this unholy forest with us mere mortals?†   (source)
  • One line in particular he was to think of or quote frequently in his role now as commander-in-chief: " 'tis not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it."†   (source)
  • I can offer no explanation for why Sukeena stopped in front of the door to the second to last storage area, no reason for her choosing the hay wagon, except to say that she is a woman of uncanny perceptions, an almost magical ability to "see" beyond where we mere mortals see.†   (source)
  • For me, alone among mortals, the gods send their messenger to tell me to stop whining.†   (source)
  • My form is not fair to mortals.†   (source)
  • It is not wise for mortals to look too deeply at those fires, my friend.†   (source)
  • So sometimes, lighting the dark to ward off evil is more important to her than avoiding detection by mere mortals.†   (source)
  • It is, I think, the secret of why lesser mortals can never hope to equal your success in the field of business.†   (source)
  • Sometimes the mortals chose to follow us into this world, to become our playthings.†   (source)
  • He must know and admit that he is imperfect, that all other mortals are imperfect, that it is childish to allow these imperfections to destroy all his hope and all his desire to live.†   (source)
  • "And what of these mortals?" he asked in his strange, animal voice.†   (source)
  • Thus, in the doctor's private language the meanings of the insults are changed and the names of animals are employed in the same way that we ordinary mortals might, in our language, use "you."†   (source)
  • After meeting Oz Cardinal, one came away convinced that he was a little boy with a heart as big and giving as God could bestow on lowly, conflicted mortals.†   (source)
  • Lightning flashed around the island; thunder played its favorite game of scaring the crap out of all the shivering mortals on the earth below.†   (source)
  • Magic is man's ridiculous attempt to make the gods behave as mortals.†   (source)
  • You are said to be a god, whose kingdom is death and whose knowledge extends beyond the ken of mortals.†   (source)
  • The debutante secretaries, reluctant to believe that Intelligence Services are peopled by ordinary mortals, were alarmed to notice that Leamas had become definitely seedy.†   (source)
  • The idea that underlies this is that communion between mortals is immortal, and that the whole of life is symbolic because it is meaningful.†   (source)
  • Young Elmer Robson, the American millionaire, had actually built the place. Spent thousands on it, so it was said. Every mortal luxury…   (source)
    mortal = human (of the flesh)
  • My dear lady, in my experience of ill-doing, Providence leaves the work of conviction and chastisement to us mortals-and the process is often fraught with difficulties.   (source)
    mortals = human beings
  • His fear was of great and terrible things, which no mortal can treat of.   (source)
    mortal = human
  • "Because," he answered solemnly, "he can live for centuries, and you are but mortal woman."   (source)
  • I, perhaps, like most other mortals, have sorrows dark enough to be typified by a black veil.   (source)
    mortals = humans (especially merely humans)
  • Never, on New England soil had stood the man so honoured by his mortal brethren as the preacher!   (source)
    mortal = human
  • He has spent but a few pounds of your mortal money: three or four perhaps.   (source)
  • No mortal could support the horror of that countenance.   (source)
    mortal = person
  • That is my least concern; I am, by a course of strange events, become the most miserable of mortals.   (source)
    mortals = people
  • A mortal man, with once a human heart, has become a fiend for his especial torment.   (source)
    mortal = human
  • Never did mortal suffer what this man has suffered.   (source)
  • Never did I see such baffled malice on a face, and never, I trust, shall such ever be seen again by mortal eyes.   (source)
  • This vampire which is amongst us is of himself so strong in person as twenty men, he is of cunning more than mortal, for his cunning be the growth of ages,   (source)
  • He did not really care for any of the things of mere earth, he was in the clouds and looked down on all the weaknesses and wants of us poor mortals.   (source)
    mortals = those who are merely human
  • …the high sense of having realised a great acquisition in the promise of Fanny for a daughter, formed just such a contrast with his early opinion on the subject when the poor little girl's coming had been first agitated, as time is for ever producing between the plans and decisions of mortals, for their own instruction, and their neighbours' entertainment.   (source)
    mortals = humans
  • The fatal hand had grappled with the mystery of life, and was the bond by which an angelic spirit kept itself in union with a mortal frame.   (source)
    mortal = merely human
  • Not to know that any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness.   (source)
    mortal = human
  • And, as if the gloom of the earth and sky had been but the effluence of these two mortal hearts, it vanished with their sorrow.   (source)
  • And be the stern and sad truth spoken, that the breach which guilt has once made into the human soul is never, in this mortal state, repaired.   (source)
  • God gave her the child, and gave her, too, an instinctive knowledge of its nature and requirements—both seemingly so peculiar—which no other mortal being can possess.   (source)
  • The dell was to be left in solitude among its dark, old trees, which, with their multitudinous tongues, would whisper long of what had passed there, and no mortal be the wiser.   (source)
  • Be it accepted as a proof that all was not corrupt in this poor victim of her own frailty, and man's hard law, that Hester Prynne yet struggled to believe that no fellow-mortal was guilty like herself.   (source)
  • All his strength and energy—all his vital and intellectual force—seemed at once to desert him, insomuch that he positively withered up, shrivelled away and almost vanished from mortal sight, like an uprooted weed that lies wilting in the sun.   (source)
  • His position is then one of the most singularly irksome, and, in every contingency, disagreeable, that a wretched mortal can possibly occupy; with seldom an alternative of good on either hand, although what presents itself to him as the worst event may very probably be the best.   (source)
    mortal = person
  • And here his descendants have been born and died, and have mingled their earthly substance with the soil, until no small portion of it must necessarily be akin to the mortal frame wherewith, for a little while, I walk the streets.   (source)
    mortal = human
  • Calm, gentle, passionless, as he appeared, there was yet, we fear, a quiet depth of malice, hitherto latent, but active now, in this unfortunate old man, which led him to imagine a more intimate revenge than any mortal had ever wreaked upon an enemy.   (source)
  • According to their united testimony, never had man spoken in so wise, so high, and so holy a spirit, as he that spake this day; nor had inspiration ever breathed through mortal lips more evidently than it did through his.   (source)
  • Sometimes the red infamy upon her breast would give a sympathetic throb, as she passed near a venerable minister or magistrate, the model of piety and justice, to whom that age of antique reverence looked up, as to a mortal man in fellowship with angels.   (source)
  • This unhappy man had made the very principle of his life to consist in the pursuit and systematic exercise of revenge; and when, by its completest triumph consummation that evil principle was left with no further material to support it—when, in short, there was no more Devil's work on earth for him to do, it only remained for the unhumanised mortal to betake himself whither his master would find him tasks enough, and pay him his wages duly.   (source)
    mortal = person
  • She stood apart from mortal interests, yet close beside them, like a ghost that revisits the familiar fireside, and can no longer make itself seen or felt; no more smile with the household joy, nor mourn with the kindred sorrow; or, should it succeed in manifesting its forbidden sympathy, awakening only terror and horrible repugnance.   (source)
    mortal = human
  • And his encounter with old Mistress Hibbins, if it were a real incident, did but show its sympathy and fellowship with wicked mortals, and the world of perverted spirits.   (source)
    mortals = humans
  • God, as a direct consequence of the sin which man thus punished, had given her a lovely child, whose place was on that same dishonoured bosom, to connect her parent for ever with the race and descent of mortals, and to be finally a blessed soul in heaven!   (source)
    mortals = human beings
  • Rules were for lesser mortals, not Quidditch Cup-winners.†   (source)
  • They are created entities, like mortals, only much more powerful.†   (source)
  • They will cause death and destruction the likes of which mortals have never known.†   (source)
  • I am used to mortals who are easily swayed by our faerie glamours; not so the Nephilim.†   (source)
  • I will never understand how you mortals tolerate it.†   (source)
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  • It was a slow death from the mortal injury.
  • And, of course, Rostam inflicting a mortal wound onto his son, the warrior Sohrab.   (source)
    mortal = lethal (causing death)
  • Redd screeched, and again The Cat felt the stinging, mortal blow of her scepter.   (source)
    mortal = deadly (causing death)
  • Look down on a poor soul in worse than mortal peril.   (source)
  • I trembled with rage and horror, resolving to wait his approach and then close with him in mortal combat.   (source)
    mortal = lethal (causing death)
  • Why had I not followed him and closed with him in mortal strife?   (source)
  • We each held ready to use our various armaments, the spiritual in the left hand, the mortal in the right.   (source)
  • I swear; and by thee, O Night, and the spirits that preside over thee, to pursue the daemon who caused this misery, until he or I shall perish in mortal conflict.   (source)
  • No mariners yet can boast they've raced their ship
    past Scylla's lair without some mortal blow—
    with each of her six heads she snatches up
    a man from the dark-prowed craft and whisks him off.   (source)
    mortal = causing death
  • … so now they writhed,
    gasping as Scylla swung them up her cliff and there
    at her cavern's mouth she bolted them down raw—
    screaming out, flinging their arms toward me,
    lost in that mortal struggle ….   (source)
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  • Out of the morning mist they came against us—
    packed as the leaves and spears that flower forth in spring—
    and Zeus presented us with disaster, me and my comrades
    doomed to suffer blow on mortal blow.   (source)
  • Roll'd from his chariot with a mortal wound,   (source)
  •   My very friend, hath got his mortal hurt
      In my behalf;   (source)
    mortal = lethal (causing death)
  • Hold fast the mortal sword,   (source)
    mortal = deadly (causing death)
  • Such mortal drugs I have;   (source)
    mortal = lethal (causing death)
  • a serpent armed with mortal sting.   (source)
    mortal = causing death
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  • They are mortal enemies.
    mortal = intense
  • From what I could gather on the rare occasions when Isaac shared with the group, a recurrence had placed his remaining eye in mortal peril.   (source)
    mortal = extreme
  • He took a deep breath and exhaled through his nose, the air hissing through his mustache for what seemed an eternity I couldn't decide whether I wanted to hug him or leap from his lap in mortal fear.   (source)
  • The instant Curly kicked open the door, he realized there was no poisonous snake in the bathroom, no cause for mortal alarm.   (source)
  • If Harry Potter goes back to Hogwarts, he will be in mortal danger.   (source)
  • He saw the world as a battlefield in which the children of light were locked in mortal conflict with the sons of darkness.   (source)
    mortal = intense
  • Alyss turned for a last look at the raging Cat, at the brave chessmen who had put themselves in mortal danger for her sake.   (source)
    mortal = extreme
  • For four mortal hours she sat on a wooden bench and struggled to grasp the tricky process of carding wool.   (source)
    mortal = intense
  • Those eels will take a mortal long time to cook, and either of you might faint with hunger before they're done.   (source)
    mortal = extremely
  • It was a frightening pain, because he could not see what was happening, and he had the feeling that some mortal injury was being done to him.   (source)
    mortal = extreme
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  • She looked like a woman who walked in mortal fear…   (source)
  • I am in mortal terror at this turn, for I haven't any idea what the things are called professionally.   (source)
  • Their tally was exact with the list, and they had nothing to add to the simple description 'fifty cases of common earth', except that the boxes were 'main and mortal heavy', and that shifting them was dry work.   (source)
    mortal = extremely
  • Meanwhile, nevertheless, it was sad to think of the perchance mortal agony through which he must struggle towards his triumph.   (source)
    mortal = extreme
  • Tears, unrestrained, fell from my brother's eyes; a sense of mortal agony crept over my frame.   (source)
  • Alyss saw it all as if through a watery film, and despite the mortal threat she and the Alyssians were facing, despite the uncertainty of everything, she felt almost serene as she drifted down into the Looking Glass Maze.   (source)
  • Spiders flee before the Basilisk, for it is their mortal enemy, and the Basilisk flees only from the crowing of the rooster, which is fatal to it.   (source)
  • Yet there he was this morning, on the school bus, insulting the same pea-brained thug who already held a mortal grudge against him.   (source)
  • We're mortal tired of being invisible.   (source)
    mortal = extremely
  • But we are swept forward again, powerless, madly savage and raging; we will kill, for they are still our mortal enemies, their rifles and bombs are aimed against us, and if we don't destroy them, they will destroy us.   (source)
    mortal = extreme
  • I was guiltless, but I had indeed drawn down a horrible curse upon my head, as mortal as that of crime.   (source)
    mortal = of great intensity
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  • Oh, no, I thought in mortal fear, I've got to be in it.†   (source)
  • No mortal man has ever looked at her with such intensity.†   (source)
  • Then he would shed this mortal coil, once and for all.†   (source)
  • She spun like a yo-yo, choosing mortal embarrassment over mortal end.†   (source)
  • "As I mentioned," Teabing clarified, "the early Church needed to convince the world that the mortal prophet Jesus was a divine being.†   (source)
  • But I was willing to embrace mortal life again, before chasing immortality.†   (source)
  • Nehemiah Trot was the Poet's name, and his gravestone, beneath the greenery, read: Here lies the mortal remains of
    NEHEMIAH TROT
    POET
    1741-1774
    SWANS SING BEFORE THEY DIE
    Bod said, "Master Trot?†   (source)
  • Mortal enemies, those two, Massoud and Hekmatyar.†   (source)
  • And they saw a great black beast, shaped like a hound yet larger than any hound that ever mortal eye has rested on, and this hound was tearing the throat out of Sir Hugo Baskerville.†   (source)
  • Chiron said the coins might come in handy for non-mortal transactions-whatever that meant.†   (source)
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  • She could see the gleaming armor of Fae and mortal warriors, hear the clash of shields and the snarl of vicious beasts, and smell blood and rotting corpses all around her.†   (source)
  • And, yes, there was fat Mr. Chickering, whose warm-up jacket had kept me from too close a view of the mortal injury; yes, there was Police Chief Pike.†   (source)
  • I've been in mortal danger for months; I'm kind of used to it now.†   (source)
  • "Maybe I have to be in mortal danger," I huff.†   (source)
  • "In ancient times people mistook us for gods," she said, "but we peculiars are no less mortal than common folk.†   (source)
  • A mortal silence spread through the room.†   (source)
  • Blossoms of hard cracked blood decorated the mortal wounds that covered him like a rash, breast and groin and throat.†   (source)
  • Is that why you keep that smile locked away, because it's too powerful for mortal man?"†   (source)
  • The guard entered last, staying by the door and facing the three of them as if the thaumaturge were in mortal danger.†   (source)
  • I read it, and it says: The body slows with mortal ache, yet my promise remains true at the closing of our days, A tender touch that ends with a kiss will awaken love in joyous ways.†   (source)
  • When the body is buried, it is mortal; when raised, it will be immortal.†   (source)
  • The painting had made me feel less mortal, less ordinary.†   (source)
  • Every magazine he touches will be a mortal sin.†   (source)
  • They're mortal, but only just.†   (source)
  • But it soon be came apparent that in the so-called Death Zone above 25,000 feet, without supplemental oxygen the body is vastly more vulnerable to HAPE and HACE, hypothermia, frostbite, and a host of other mortal perils.†   (source)
  • Some of them were in mortal terror; others thought they were being taken out for a treat.†   (source)
  • An unshielded fairy could be seen by mortal eyes.†   (source)
  • And they heard it above them, screaming, not in anger or triumph now, but in mortal terror.†   (source)
  • She's in mortal danger-I'm sure of it-but I don't know how to find her!†   (source)
  • As long as I had been in action, the idea of my being vulnerable, being mortal, had been something I could push away.†   (source)
  • It's hard to imagine a mortal man more unwilling to change his course than Nathan Price.†   (source)
  • Ruth thought about the curse of ghosts who were angry that their bones were separated from the rest of their mortal bodies.†   (source)
  • I smelled cooking flesh but saw no mortal wounds.†   (source)
  • Stregoni benefici: An Italian vampire, said to be on the side of goodness, and a mortal enemy of all evil vampires.†   (source)
  • Out in front was the coffin that carried Mikey Murphy, our officer, who had walked out into the firestorm to make that last call on his cell phone, the one that placed him in mortal danger, the one chance, he believed, to save us.†   (source)
  • He proclaimed the wound was mortal.†   (source)
  • The Holtons had been there when their children were sick; had comforted them when these illnesses proved mortal.†   (source)
  • Although Laura struggles against the unconscious arrogance of her family throughout the story, she cannot finally break away from their Olympian attitudes toward the merely mortal who reside below the hill.†   (source)
  • "We are all mortal," Dr. Dupont says, his voice gentle.†   (source)
  • I stared at her wide, blinking eyes; the girl was in mortal fear of something or someone.†   (source)
  • Another man duck-walks across the flight deck, in mortal fear of the whirling rotor blades, and climbs in.†   (source)
  • It's a little scary because, though I have good friends here, I also have mortal enemies, and you don't want your enemies to know what you think.†   (source)
  • "That'd be a mortal sin.†   (source)
  • There are many monsters in this world, most of them human and all of them mortal.†   (source)
  • And the immortal must train the mortal.†   (source)
  • "I thought maybe I could see what he was doing with the Mortal Cup," he said reluctantly.†   (source)
  • But if any of the people now around me came near I would need to run for it and hide in mortal terror.†   (source)
  • This world is like a friend with a mortal wound.†   (source)
  • To die, to sleep; To sleep—perchance to dream—ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause.†   (source)
  • He was aware of the mortal threat of the drinking water.†   (source)
  • WATER BURDEN: Fremen: a mortal obligation.†   (source)
  • Aristotle felt that the mortal horse of Appearance which ate grass and took people places and gave birth to little horses deserved far more attention than Plato was giving it.†   (source)
  • You mean like living in mortal fear of going out for a gallon of milk?†   (source)
  • You'd better hurry up and cut the umbilical cord to your mortal progenitor.†   (source)
  • A second wave collapsed over my feet, lipped with white froth, and the chill gripped my ankles with a mortal ache.†   (source)
  • She watched bombs falling, women exercising, men copulating, clouds gathering, waves tugging at the sand like the rasping licks of so many mortal, temporary, vanishing tongues, tongues of a planet that would one day too be no more.†   (source)
  • I told her that if I was going to commit a Mortal sin, as lying to a religious can't be Venial, the least Minerva could do was tell me what I was risking my immortal soul for.†   (source)
  • The modern entrance, a towering atrium with marble floors, lies a quarter of a mile away, at the end of a shiny corridor called the Pike—short for turnpike—flanked by banks of elevators, clinical departments to the right and left, inpatient wards on floors above, operating rooms below (forty, not counting the ones in obstetrics), dozens of laboratories in all directions, and mortal dramas everywhere.†   (source)
  • "Tell her that she made it very clear to me in the spring when she signed a contract with Henrik Vanger behind my back that I'm now just an ordinary mortal freelancer who no longer sits on the board and has no influence on Millennium policy.†   (source)
  • The man in black was very nervous now "But you also bested my Spaniard, which means you must have studied, because he studied many years for his excellence, and if you can study, you are clearly more than simply strong; you are aware of how mortal we all are, and you do not wish to die, so you would have kept the poison as far from yourself as possible; therefore I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me."†   (source)
  • Of all earthly and mortal things Our Lord commanded us to pray only for our daily bread.†   (source)
  • He's immortal like an angel but has all the mortal senses.†   (source)
  • But Dewey had doubts: "If Herb had thought his family was in danger, mortal danger, he would have fought like a tiger.†   (source)
  • Blood, gushing from the mortal wound, glistened in the moonlight.†   (source)
  • And the face of Leona's brother, white, with the blood beneath it rushing thickly, bitterly, to the skin's surface, summoned by his mortal enemy.†   (source)
  • They whispered to Caesar that he was mortal, then sold daggers at half-price in the grand March sale.†   (source)
  • It was as if they believed their own mortal souls would be in peril if they did not give us the benefit of worship on Sunday.†   (source)
  • Is that a mortal sin?†   (source)
  • You are lucky indeed that I am your friend, for otherwise your good master must have been stricken with mortal plague.'†   (source)
  • "Any reason in particular you've decorated this fine establishment with our mortal enemies' symbol?"†   (source)
  • We mustn't stay here talking when Mr. Stoddard may be in mortal danger.†   (source)
  • He said that it could be seen under certain circumstances attending the death of a horse because the horse shares a common soul and its separate life only forms it out of all horses and makes it mortal.†   (source)
  • Joseph Medill, the forty-eight-year-old publisher of the Tribune, surveyed the scene and recalled "more widespread, soul-sickening desolation than mortal eye ever beheld since the destruction of Jerusalem.†   (source)
  • Eugenides, the god who had once been mortal, spoke at last.†   (source)
  • All men were mortal, and they felt particularly so.†   (source)
  • And his own mother, ghastly ill but here at last, murmurous, a strong and mortal presence in the house.†   (source)
  • Horses all over the barn became his mortal enemies.†   (source)
  • We're falling fast together, past the mountain and the churning sky, through the veil that separates the realms from the mortal world.†   (source)
  • What can mortal man do to me?†   (source)
  • But as in India, certain public figures in Pakistan begin to transcend the merely mortal realm.†   (source)
  • It can gather strength when it's in mortal danger."†   (source)
  • My spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal.†   (source)
  • He regretted that he could not have responded better to his sister's mortal screams.†   (source)
  • I flash her the smile I save for my mortal enemies.†   (source)
  • And I'm mortal afraid of what Gandalf will say, if harm comes of it.†   (source)
  • Claudia gleamed like a jewel in their midst; so would that mortal boy who slept below.†   (source)
  • The only thought that had never crossed my mind was that Rosa could be mortal.†   (source)
  • He lived in mortal fear of Chief White Halfoat.†   (source)
  • You're a Mortal and I'm a Caster, and those worlds might intersect, but they'll never be the same.†   (source)
  • Maybe they finally understood that we're all very mortal.†   (source)
  • Not that Franklin denies his Latino heritage-a mortal sin at a place like Brown, where group identity is celebrated by 160 different student groups, many of them aligned along ethnic or racial lines.†   (source)
  • Vlad helped Henry through the door, mentally kicking himself for so easily following the will of his mortal enemy.†   (source)
  • Technically, I hadn't lied; I'd only withheld, but still …. withholding from Casey was, like, a mortal sin.†   (source)
  • He had killed the sheriff and so he had died with a mortal sin on his soul.†   (source)
  • A pregnancy that's a mortal sin.†   (source)
  • But get a group of them together and this swarm instinct takes over and they seem to forget that you're a mere mortal: flesh and bone, bruisable and scareable.†   (source)
  • Was that a mortal sin?†   (source)
  • I had never even thought of him as being mortal.†   (source)
  • Return to the warm valley, to the green grounds he could no longer light with his mortal vision?†   (source)
  • And I'm going to murder you, and that is a mortal sin, too.†   (source)
  • No mortal on earth rode in such style as their King, the English knew.†   (source)
  • He said it in a tone that indicated ordinary was more mortal a sin than murder itself.†   (source)
  • It held even though the Baptists started to beat drums and allow electric guitar, even though—Jesus help us—the Church of Christ conceded in the late 1970s that it was probably not a mortal sin if boys went swimming with girls.†   (source)
  • My sister was killed because she broke a cardinal rule, committed a mortal sin, if you like.†   (source)
  • Yesterday, I have filed in my mind as a good day, notwithstanding it was filled with mortal illness and the grieving of the recently bereft.†   (source)
  • The steel frame groaned like a living beast in mortal agony, and perhaps minor welds broke with sounds as loud and sharp as gunshots.†   (source)
  • Youth is a mortal wound.†   (source)
  • Slowly, warmth returned, seeping into his bones to chase away the mortal cold.†   (source)
  • When asked which myth he meant to represent, Le Fevre, replied that there were thousands of myths like that, with the woman a mortal and the pony a god.†   (source)
  • Both mortal predators and prey seem to agree on listening to their primal fears and hiding until dawn.†   (source)
  • The mortal sin of Robert Stadler was that he never identified his proper homeland…… He hated stupidity.†   (source)
  • The kinfolks had raised some mortal fuss about it, according to Granma, after the funeral.†   (source)
  • Perhaps it's mortal hungry.†   (source)
  • Will my voice ring in your ears awhile, will you remember Olohun-iyo even if the music on the other side surpasses his mortal craft?†   (source)
  • We're in mortal danger!†   (source)
  • "I've told you, Will," Pig said, "it's forbidden to use karate except when I'm in mortal danger.†   (source)
  • It seemed like a lot to ask of mortal enemies, but I guess a cataclysmic event that nearly destroys every living thing in sight will make you rethink your priorities.†   (source)
  • Yes, with the aid of time, man becomes capable of wresting the immortal from the mortal.†   (source)
  • There are a few things that tell of his mortal presence: in his bedroom, the woman carefully bundles his dark socks and underwear in an old yellow raincoat; she finds a pornographic magazine in a drawer of his night table, from April 1978, and a few odd condoms; she smells his toothbrush-peppermint and dust; she discovers in the attic a brick-sized wad of $20 bills rubberbanded inside a shoebox, probably the first large sum of cash he salted away from the IRS in the beginning years of…†   (source)
  • Mortal leaps?†   (source)
  • Then her listener could see a row of swaybacked cabins, smell the smoky smell from the fireplaces, could see a fifteen-year-old girl huddled under a dirty blanket, could see the great hole in her head and blood pouring from what should have been a mortal wound.†   (source)
  • "Speak up, mortal," Loki said, suddenly all sympathy and reasonableness.†   (source)
  • We must guard against these two mortal diseases of society.†   (source)
  • "His wound is mortal," Leale announces softly.†   (source)
  • Errtu knew that it had been careless, overconfident in its ability to destroy any mortal in single combat.†   (source)
  • I think it's a mortal sin."†   (source)
  • …and yelled, but not being heard, pointed and pushed, but his hand stopped in mid-air, not my own brother, but Tom understood, hopped across to the vacant place and plugged it with his body so that there was no longer a hole but one terribly mortal exposed boy, and smoke cut him off, so that Chamberlain could no longer see, moving forward himself, had to shoot another man, shot him twice, the first ball taking him in the shoulder, and the man was trying to fire a musket with one hand…†   (source)
  • Well, one of them wasn't a stranger; he was more like a mortal enemy.†   (source)
  • It's presumption or despair, I forget which, but a mortal sin.†   (source)
  • Still, it was a shock to the country to see the angel in the flesh, looking for all the world like a mere mortal.†   (source)
  • The hunters, numbering from one to as many as eight individual wolves, would be observed trotting unhurriedly through the dispersed groups of deer, who almost invariably seemed quite unconcerned by the presence of their "mortal enemies."†   (source)
  • My mother felt as if she were peering into Li T'ieh-kuai's magic gourd to check the fate of an impish mortal.†   (source)
  • Well, he is a man, he is mortal, death comes to us all, etcetera, and consequently he would have died anyway, sooner or later.†   (source)
  • A law is not good merely because the legislature wills it, but the legislature has the mortal duty to will only that which is good.†   (source)
  • They'll be shown locked in mortal combat.†   (source)
  • The seventy-two hours I plan to spend in this burg is about all most mortal men from civilized parts can stand.†   (source)
  • And, like the rest of us, he was mortal.†   (source)
  • It also struck me that way several years ago, and I'd a hunch I might be feeling the same way a few years hence, that is, if Don's business did not complicate me off this mortal coil or condenser before then.†   (source)
  • Simply this: The noblest fate that a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation.†   (source)
  • Once when I was very young I felt mortal--but not any more.†   (source)
  • And why he comes to us again and again to amaze and mock us, no mortal man can guess.†   (source)
  • Were the gods not creations, created like me and you, subject to time, mortal?†   (source)
  • Having eased His mortal anguish through prayer, He left the garden.†   (source)
  • And somewhat as in blind night, on a mild sea, a sailor may be made aware of an iceberg, fanged and mortal, bearing invisibly near, by the unwarned charm of its breath, nothingness now revealed itself: that permanent night upon which the stars in their expiring generations are less than the glinting of gnats, and nebulae, more trivial than winter breath; that darkness in which eternity lies bent and pale, a dead snake in a jar, and infinity is the sparkling of a wren blown out to sea;…†   (source)
  • All cats are mortal!†   (source)
  • For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.†   (source)
  • There exists a mortal mystery, that, if I knew where it was, I could crush like an island grape.†   (source)
  • Brushing past the man who for ten years had been his mortal enemy, he placed himself behind the counter and said: "Yes, please?"†   (source)
  • But the effects of mortal shocks only manifest themselves slowly.†   (source)
  • Mortal, demigod, monstrous … We must be prepared.†   (source)
  • We can't take a mortal into battle," Jason said.†   (source)
  • All the hands were once again at "mortal peril."†   (source)
  • Now my mind was once again a bowl of fuzzy mortal soup.†   (source)
  • Or you all die here, starting with the mortal girl.†   (source)
  • One mortal man had seen Mal'akh naked, eighteen hours earlier.†   (source)
  • I have spied for you and lied for you, put myself in mortal danger for you.†   (source)
  • Times like this, I'm glad I don't have a mortal soul.†   (source)
  • The waves pushed us forward, and in no time we were back in the mortal world.†   (source)
  • She wanted to trade me to my father for the Mortal Instruments.†   (source)
  • Long ago, he had played the pivotal role in Mal'akh's mortal life path.†   (source)
  • They, who knew the steps I took, long ago, to guard myself against mortal death?†   (source)
  • And I'm also your master now I hold the Mortal Cup.†   (source)
  • For all his grand designs, Artemis had been a mere mortal in the end.†   (source)
  • I was only alive because so many people had helped me, even a random mortal girl like that.†   (source)
  • I can figure out which of my godly powers remain with me in this mortal form.†   (source)
  • And if demons are coming through to the mortal world, we don't have much time.†   (source)
  • Without his Horcruxes, Voldemort will be a mortal man with a maimed and diminished soul.†   (source)
  • We already knew that Hermes was "mortal."†   (source)
  • That which a deity demands of a mortal (and the fear provoked by the demand).†   (source)
  • I've met a lot of people, human and unhuman, mortal and immortal.†   (source)
  • But it is also why I favored the first Jason, a pure mortal, who had no godly parent to guide him.†   (source)
  • That's why they have different sins, the sacrilege, the mortal sin, the venial sin.†   (source)
  • "Foolish mortal!" he bellowed, rising to his feet.†   (source)
  • Taking your little mortal pet for a walk?†   (source)
  • It seemed impossible that Tronjheim had been built by mortal beings.†   (source)
  • "You've been avoiding that book for a mortal age.†   (source)
  • Though she had returned to the mortal world, she did not truly belong there and suffered.†   (source)
  • But what if a mortal sees me pulling out a sword?†   (source)
  • "It's something called the Mortal Cup," Clary said, "and Valentine thought my mother had it.†   (source)
  • "You could've fought as a mortal, without … without—"†   (source)
  • Then the fire consumed them and they were gone forever from mortal sight.†   (source)
  • It was time to attend to matters of the mortal world.†   (source)
  • "But Jason—our Jason—he died a mortal death," Zethes said.†   (source)
  • The twins the two that are one must be the mortal who needed to be trained.†   (source)
  • Your senses are better than a regular mortal's.†   (source)
  • An aging ghost, he thought, cruelly reminded that his youthful spirit was living in a mortal shell.†   (source)
  • TAHADDI CHALLENGE: Fremen challenge to mortal combat, usually to test some primal issue.†   (source)
  • I face death in the hope that when you meet your match you will be mortal once more.†   (source)
  • Once upon a time there was a mortal king who was beloved of the Gods!†   (source)
  • I remembered she'd gotten quite angry when a mortal prince tried to cut it down.†   (source)
  • I'm not stealing, I'm borrowing, and that's not a mortal sin.†   (source)
  • Her beauty, which would have entranced any mortal man, held no charm for him.†   (source)
  • You told a mortal girl about half-bloods?†   (source)
  • "Give me," it said, in a voice like the wind blowing trash across empty pavement, "the Mortal Cup.†   (source)
  • I'd left a mortal girl out there to die.†   (source)
  • Once our food or drink passes mortal lips, the mortal is ours.†   (source)
  • Now I was a weak, tiny mortal cowering in the darkness.†   (source)
  • The camp store loaned me one hundred dollars in mortal money and twenty golden drachmas.†   (source)
  • That's why the Hall of Judgment often connects to this part of the mortal world.†   (source)
  • I'm planning to trade you to him for the Mortal Instruments.†   (source)
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  • Her happiness on this occasion was very much a la mortal, finely chequered.   (source)
    mortal = intense
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