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mortal as in: mortal body
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Don't expect perfection of a mere mortal.
mortal = human
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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)
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Few mortals have ever done this and survived:
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mortals = humans (especially merely humans)
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"… Our helper He a-mid the floods," wafted out across the Common in the tempo of a football march, "Of mortal ills prevailing!"
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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)
- 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)
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Lestat hunted for mortals every night,
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mortals = humans
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I will be ready to risk my life at any time ... for the mortal world with whose safety we are charged.
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mortal = human (especially merely human)
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"It is not easy for us to tell the difference between two mortals" said the Elf.
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mortals = humans
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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.
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mortal = merely human
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In it, Anthony Marston seemed to be something more than mortal.
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mortal = human
- Exposing what is mortal and unsure to all that fortune, death and danger dare, even for an eggshell. (source)
- 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. (source)
- If he go through a doorway, he must open the door like a mortal. (source)
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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.
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mortal = human (especially merely human)
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...what mortal imagination could conceive it?
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mortal = merely human
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"I am a mortal," Scrooge remonstrated, "and liable to fall."
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mortal = human
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...dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before;
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mortals = humans
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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.
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mortal = human
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No mortal man has gone this way before,
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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)
- Well, the mighty hunter joins the rest of us mortals.† (source)
- Every Fae child knows this, but you mortals never seem to see.† (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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know.† (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)
- I doubt whether any two among gods or mortals have ever seen quite so clearly.† (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)
- 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)
- One morning, after almost two years of crossing, they became the first mortals to see the western slopes of the mountain range.† (source)
- She complained that the monks had never killed them, thinking they might have been former mortals and holy ones.† (source)
- Spending your days keeping mortals out of danger ...could be fun, depending on the mortal you're assigned.† (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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Ronin's vision had been accurate, and Mrs. McDaniels had guided Max and David to the Book of Thoth, but the Sidh was not a place for mortals, and her stay had sapped her youth.† (source)
- The truth is, she was one of the last mortals in this country who had fairy blood in her.† (source)
- So sometimes, lighting the dark to ward off evil is more important to her than avoiding detection by mere mortals.† (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)
- We mortals are sometimes plagued by things like how we might be coming across to other people.† (source)
- Sometimes the mortals chose to follow us into this world, to become our playthings.† (source)
- It is not wise for mortals to look too deeply at those fires, my friend.† (source)
- What brings him to this unholy forest with us 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- You are said to be a god, whose kingdom is death and whose knowledge extends beyond the ken of mortals.† (source)
- Magic is man's ridiculous attempt to make the gods behave as mortals.† (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)
- 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)
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Even a fourteenth share was wealth exceedingly great, greater than that of many mortal kings.
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- It is our mortal lot to suffer and... (source)
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Anyway they grew immensely rich and famous, and my grandfather was King under the Mountain again and treated with great reverence by the mortal men, who lived to the South, and were gradually spreading up the Running River as far as the valley overshadowed by the Mountain.
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mortal = human (especially merely human)
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Young Elmer Robson, the American millionaire, had actually built the place. Spent thousands on it, so it was said. Every mortal luxury…
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mortal = human (of the flesh)
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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.
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Anne cowered deeper into her pillows as if desirous of hiding herself forever from mortal eyes.
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mortal = human
- His fear was of great and terrible things, which no mortal can treat of. (source)
- "Because," he answered solemnly, "he can live for centuries, and you are but mortal woman." (source)
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I, perhaps, like most other mortals, have sorrows dark enough to be typified by a black veil.
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Never did mortal suffer what this man has suffered.
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mortal = human
- He has spent but a few pounds of your mortal money: three or four perhaps. (source)
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No mortal could support the horror of that countenance.
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mortal = person
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That is my least concern; I am, by a course of strange events, become the most miserable of mortals.
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mortals = people
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A mortal man, with once a human heart, has become a fiend for his especial torment.
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mortal = human
- Never, on New England soil had stood the man so honoured by his mortal brethren as the preacher! (source)
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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.
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mortal = person
- Oh, I am an afflicted mortal. (source)
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Never did I see such baffled malice on a face, and never, I trust, shall such ever be seen again by mortal eyes.
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mortal = human
- 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)
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"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.
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mortals = human beings
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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.
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mortals = those who are merely human
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…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.
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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.
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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.
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mortal = human
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
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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.
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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.
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- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
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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.
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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.
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mortal as in: a mortal wound
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Have the detectives determined who struck the mortal blow?
mortal = causing death
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- It was a slow death from the mortal injury.
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And, of course, Rostam inflicting a mortal wound onto his son, the warrior Sohrab.
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mortal = lethal (causing death)
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Redd screeched, and again The Cat felt the stinging, mortal blow of her scepter.
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mortal = deadly (causing death)
- Look down on a poor soul in worse than mortal peril. (source)
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I trembled with rage and horror, resolving to wait his approach and then close with him in mortal combat.
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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)
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Roll'd from his chariot with a mortal wound,
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mortal = causing death
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My very friend, hath got his mortal hurt
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Hold fast the mortal sword,
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mortal = deadly (causing death)
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Such mortal drugs I have;
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mortal = lethal (causing death)
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a serpent armed with mortal sting.
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mortal = causing death
- Her happiness on this occasion was very much a la mortal, finely chequered. (source)
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mortal as in: felt mortal agony
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She was in mortal fear of seeing him.
mortal = extreme or intense
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They are mortal enemies.
mortal = intense
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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.
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mortal = extreme
- 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)
- If Harry Potter goes back to Hogwarts, he will be in mortal danger. (source)
- The instant Curly kicked open the door, he realized there was no poisonous snake in the bathroom, no cause for mortal alarm. (source)
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He saw the world as a battlefield in which the children of light were locked in mortal conflict with the sons of darkness.
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mortal = intense
- For four mortal hours she sat on a wooden bench and struggled to grasp the tricky process of carding wool. (source)
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Alyss turned for a last look at the raging Cat, at the brave chessmen who had put themselves in mortal danger for her sake.
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mortal = extreme
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Those eels will take a mortal long time to cook, and either of you might faint with hunger before they're done.
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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.
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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)
- ...him that always seemed to have such a mortal dread of little girls. (source)
- So a lurking humor ran through his deeds, and it was his delight to steal upon the squirrels, and, when he all but had them, to let them go, chattering in mortal fear to the treetops. (source)
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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.
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Meanwhile, nevertheless, it was sad to think of the perchance mortal agony through which he must struggle towards his triumph.
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I was guiltless, but I had indeed drawn down a horrible curse upon my head, as mortal as that of crime.
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mortal = of great intensity
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Yet there he was this morning, on the school bus, insulting the same pea-brained thug who already held a mortal grudge against him.
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mortal = extreme
- 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)
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We're mortal tired of being invisible.
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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.
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mortal = extreme
- Her imagination had run away with her and she held the spruce grove in mortal dread after nightfall. (source)
- Tears, unrestrained, fell from my brother's eyes; a sense of mortal agony crept over my frame. (source)
- 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. (source)
- 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, (source)
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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)
- And don't expect me to kowtow to you, mortal, just because old Barnacle-Beard is your father.† (source)
- She spun like a yo-yo, choosing mortal embarrassment over mortal end.† (source)
- Mortal enemies, those two, Massoud and Hekmatyar.† (source)
- "As I mentioned," Teabing clarified, "the early Church needed to convince the world that the mortal prophet Jesus was a divine being.† (source)
- We have worked hard over the summer to ensure that this time, no champion will find himself or herself in mortal danger.† (source)
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Here lies the mortal remains of
NEHEMIAH TROT
POET
1741-1774
SWANS SING BEFORE THEY DIE† (source)
- I've been in mortal danger for months; I'm kind of used to it now.† (source)
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- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- "In ancient times people mistook us for gods," she said, "but we peculiars are no less mortal than common folk.† (source)
- Blossoms of hard cracked blood decorated the mortal wounds that covered him like a rash, breast and groin and throat.† (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)
- "Maybe I have to be in mortal danger," I huff.† (source)
- Mr. McCaffrey won't come right out and say, Stop that wanking, because you can't accuse someone of a mortal sin unless you have proof.† (source)
- A mortal silence spread through the room.† (source)
- The guard entered last, staying by the door and facing the three of them as if the thaumaturge were in mortal danger.† (source)
- Is that why you keep that smile locked away, because it's too powerful for mortal man?† (source)
- An unshielded fairy could be seen by mortal eyes.† (source)
- The painting had made me feel less mortal, less ordinary.† (source)
- They're mortal, but only just.† (source)
- It seemed impossible that Tronjheim had been built by mortal beings.† (source)
- "We are all mortal," Dr. Dupont says, his voice gentle.† (source)
- Farid saw other ghosts and spirits, too, whole armies of them: malignant, all-powerful beings who tore the hearts out of poor mortal boys and ate them.† (source)
- I smelled cooking flesh but saw no mortal wounds.† (source)
- I began to live in mortal fear that my wife would, God forbid, ask me to rip her clothes off and have my way with her.† (source)
- You've been avoiding that book for a mortal age.† (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)
- That is the soul when it commits mortal sins.† (source)
- Stregoni benefici: An Italian vampire, said to be on the side of goodness, and a mortal enemy of all evil vampires.† (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)
- 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)
- And the immortal must train the mortal.† (source)
- I was expecting a little bit more preparation, but I was just a Mortal.† (source)
- The Holtons had been there when their children were sick; had comforted them when these illnesses proved mortal.† (source)
- I stared at her wide, blinking eyes; the girl was in mortal fear of something or someone.† (source)
- It's hard to imagine a mortal man more unwilling to change his course than Nathan Price.† (source)
- But suddenly his daddy was there, looking at him in mortal agony, and a sorrow so great that Danny's heart flamed within his chest.† (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)
- As long as I had been in action, the idea of my being vulnerable, being mortal, had been something I could push away.† (source)
- You'd better hurry up and cut the umbilical cord to your mortal progenitor.† (source)
- When the body is buried, it is mortal; when raised, it will be immortal.† (source)
- Claudia gleamed like a jewel in their midst; so would that mortal boy who slept below.† (source)
- She felt the Mortal Cup yanked from her grasp.† (source)
- Another man duck-walks across the flight deck, in mortal fear of the whirling rotor blades, and climbs in.† (source)
- The only thought that had never crossed my mind was that Rosa could be mortal.† (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)
- Still down on his knees, with all eyes fixed upon him, Dr. Leale announced his diagnosis and prediction: "His wound is mortal; it is impossible for him to recover."† (source)
- Then he felt alone in the world, and the memory of Fermina Daza, lying in ambush in recent days, dealt him a mortal blow.† (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)
- I prayed that he would listen to Narciso and that the angry and frustrated men on the bridge would not commit mortal sin.† (source)
- A second wave collapsed over my feet, lipped with white froth, and the chill gripped my ankles with a mortal ache.† (source)
- That'd be a mortal sin.† (source)
- But these Fremen were inexperienced youths and all they could see was that they owed this Imperial servant a mortal obligation.† (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)
- Ruth thought about the curse of ghosts who were angry that their bones were separated from the rest of their mortal bodies.† (source)
- He's immortal like an angel but has all the mortal senses.† (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)
- Any reason in particular you've decorated this fine establishment with our mortal enemies' symbol?† (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)
- Of all earthly and mortal things Our Lord commanded us to pray only for our daily bread.† (source)
- They whispered to Caesar that he was mortal, then sold daggers at half-price in the grand March sale.† (source)
- What can mortal man do to me?† (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)
- How unfair of Matron to evoke that soaring chorale which always made me feel that I stood with every mortal creature looking up to the heavens in dumb wonder.† (source)
- They had power greater than any mortal, and if that power was enough to change the face of the earth, I didn't want to know.† (source)
- But Dewey had doubts: "If Herb had thought his family was in danger, mortal danger, he would have fought like a tiger.† (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)
- 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)
- 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)
- All men were mortal, and they felt particularly so.† (source)
- Uncle Pros knew not the wonder of his own restoration; but to the girl this man before her was something more than mortal.† (source)
- 'My spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal.† (source)
- Is that a mortal sin?† (source)
- No mortal on earth rode in such style as their King, the English knew.† (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)
- And his own mother, ghastly ill but here at last, murmurous, a strong and mortal presence in the house.† (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)
- He came to sitting on the ground and waited for the knife to strike him, almost welcoming the mortal blow for the peace it would bring.† (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)
- I tried to look up "mortal sin" in both the dictionary and the encyclopedia, but they don't tell about it.† (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)
- Did it matter, if you didn't even believe in mortal sins?† (source)
- And they were all here together, under the white-hot sun, all the lies, all the fears, all the terrors, all the horrors that the wave had brought, all here and in mortal form.† (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)
- Myrmidon would have to strike a mortal blow to win this match.† (source)
- It's presumption or despair, I forget which, but a mortal sin.† (source)
- Both mortal predators and prey seem to agree on listening to their primal fears and hiding until dawn.† (source)
- Nine he gave to Mortal Men, proud and great, and so ensnared them.† (source)
- It can gather strength when it's in mortal danger.† (source)
- Technically, I hadn't lied; I'd only withheld, but still ...withholding from Casey was, like, 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)
- 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)
- He said it in a tone that indicated ordinary was more mortal a sin than murder itself.† (source)
- He regretted that he could not have responded better to his sister's mortal screams.† (source)
- Vlad helped Henry through the door, mentally kicking himself for so easily following the will of his mortal enemy.† (source)
- We're in mortal danger!† (source)
- But as in India, certain public figures in Pakistan begin to transcend the merely mortal realm.† (source)
- Half of me was bursting with joy at the thought of having him so close, the other half was in mortal terror.† (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)
- But going forward filled with the importance of his message, filled with his dedicated mission; and in his zeal, perhaps in his mortal pride, ignoring the advice of his physician.† (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)
- 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)
- Automatic weapons-two of them; one nearby, one farther away-shattering windows, ripping into wood, a piercing screech of pain erupting from the terminal, announcing a mortal hit.† (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)
- He had enough trouble to stop a locomotive...At equal weights, there's nothing that wears racing plates that's a mortal to beat him:' Seabiscuit returned to the grandstand, where Smith and the Howards awaited him.† (source)
- People like that continually expose their souls to mortal danger in imagining that they are free of it, when, indeed, the only mortal danger for the spirit is to remain too long without it.† (source)
- Maybe they finally understood that we're all very mortal.† (source)
- The mortal sin of Robert Stadler was that he never identified his proper homeland...He hated stupidity.† (source)
- "Your royal Highness needs not to be told," said King Lune, "that by the law of nations as well as by all reasons of prudent policy, we have as good right to your head as ever one mortal man had against another.† (source)
- Yes, with the aid of time, man becomes capable of wresting the immortal from the mortal.† (source)
- A mighty fortress is our God, A bulwark never failing; Our helper He, amid the flood Of mortal ills prevailing ....† (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)
- The kinfolks had raised some mortal fuss about it, according to Granma, after the funeral.† (source)
- "Speak up, mortal," Loki said, suddenly all sympathy and reasonableness.† (source)
- Errtu knew that it had been careless, overconfident in its ability to destroy any mortal in single combat.† (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)
- 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)
- I end up staying long enough that Mr. and Mrs. Leighton and Sarah get home and I'm roped into having dinner with them, which isn't such a dreadful thought now that Sarah is not my mortal enemy anymore.† (source)
- I had never even thought of him as being 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† (source)
- "His wound is mortal," Leale announces softly.† (source)
- Well, one of them wasn't a stranger; he was more like a mortal enemy.† (source)
- Chamberlain saw movements below, troops drawn toward the gap as toward a cool place in all the heat, and looking down, saw Tom's face 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 when Chamberlain got him again, taking careful aim this time.† (source)
- We must guard against these two mortal diseases of society.† (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)
- 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)
- Heavyweights can harm each other grievously and permanently, and that was what was always so fearful about strong and well-shaped men locked in mortal combat.† (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)
- And, like the rest of us, he was 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)
- Once when I was very young I felt mortal—but not any more.† (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)
- Know that under a mortal name am I mistress of the Palace of Kama in Khaipur.† (source)
- The seventy-two hours I plan to spend in this burg is about all most mortal men from civilized parts can stand.† (source)
- As Fred Clumly, merely mortal, nothing more than—without any grandiose overtones—a man.† (source)
- They'll be shown locked in mortal combat.† (source)
- He would also grow old, he would also eventually have to die, mortal was Siddhartha, mortal was every physical form.† (source)
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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; that inconceivable chasm of invulnerable silence in which cataclysms ofgalaxies rave mute as amber.† (source)
- OLD GENTLEMAN: [to the HOUSEWIFE] What can you do, dear lady, cats are only 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)
- He was destroyed by a mortal appetite for food you'd call it unlikely for a bird to desire at all.† (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)
- "It's been a long time since a mortal was allowed at camp:' "Don't encourage her," Hermes grumbled.† (source)
- Listen, child, I won't be mortal forever.† (source)
- Your most dangerous mortal enemy waits there.† (source)
- "Foolish mortal!" he bellowed, rising to his feet.† (source)
- But a few of the gods like me stayed in the mortal world the entire time.† (source)
- Shortly before those mortal events in the Camber dooryard, Cujo's remains were cremated.† (source)
- It was time to attend to matters of the mortal world.† (source)
- You remind me of another mortal girl I once knew.† (source)
- But being back in Boston on a nice spring day, hanging out like a regular mortal kid?† (source)
- I was only alive because so many people had helped me, even a random mortal girl like that.† (source)
- Between the mortal foes was an empty span of perhaps two miles.† (source)
- He returned to the tree where he committed his mortal sin to find some absolution for his crime.† (source)
- I have spied for you and lied for you, put myself in mortal danger for you.† (source)
- We already knew that Hermes was "mortal."† (source)
- Then the fire consumed them and they were gone forever from mortal sight.† (source)
- She's in mortal danger-I'm sure of it-but I don't know how to find her!† (source)
- The camp store loaned me one hundred dollars in mortal money and twenty golden drachmas.† (source)
- I'm not stealing, I'm borrowing, and that's not a mortal sin.† (source)
- But I was willing to embrace mortal life again, before chasing immortality.† (source)
- It's not as accurate as your mortal friend here, perhaps.† (source)
- Three thousand years, and I will never get over the power of the Mist ....and mortal ignorance?'† (source)
- Horus released my ba, and my consciousness floated back to the mortal world like a helium balloon.† (source)
- You mean like living in mortal fear of going out for a gallon of milk?† (source)
- That mortal wound was bound to happen, but now you've fixed it, so we can stop worrying about it!† (source)
- Well, not bad for a middle-aged mortal, I suppose.† (source)
- I knew Hodge had given Valentine the Mortal Cup, but I hadn't realized—† (source)
- For all his grand designs, Artemis had been a mere mortal in the end.† (source)
- And they heard it above them, screaming, not in anger or triumph now, but in mortal terror.† (source)
- He was aware of the mortal threat of the drinking water.† (source)
- The twins the two that are one must be the mortal who needed to be trained.† (source)
- She looked like a regular mortal woman, his good old psychotic babysitter.† (source)
- She looked younger—about my mortal age.† (source)
- I never believed your daddy when he said it was impossible for a Caster and a Mortal to be together.† (source)
- Once upon a time there was a mortal king who was beloved of the Gods!† (source)
- There are many monsters in this world, most of them human and all of them mortal.† (source)
- It was a mortal,' I said now, more front instinct than conviction.† (source)
- Without his Horcruxes, Voldemort will be a mortal man with a maimed and diminished soul.† (source)
- That which a deity demands of a mortal (and the fear provoked by the demand).† (source)
- Long ago, he had played the pivotal role in Mal'akh's mortal life path.† (source)
- The waves pushed us forward, and in no time we were back in the mortal world.† (source)
- There's a balance between the Mortal world and the Caster world, between Light and Dark.† (source)
- But if you had the Mortal Cup, you could make more, right?† (source)
- It's dangerous, powerful enough to destroy any mortal who looks upon us.† (source)
- That's why they have different sins, the sacrilege, the mortal sin, the venial sin.† (source)
- TAHADDI CHALLENGE: Fremen challenge to mortal combat, usually to test some primal issue.† (source)
- He was playing to me as he had when I was mortal; he was leading me.† (source)
- "prison," and, in the position where the number twelve would be on a normal clock, "mortal peril."† (source)
- Chiron said the coins might come in handy for non-mortal transactions-whatever that meant.† (source)
- One mortal man had seen Mal'akh naked, eighteen hours earlier.† (source)
- I always enjoyed the chance to enlighten a clueless mortal.† (source)
- I've met a lot of people, human and unhuman, mortal and immortal.† (source)
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