All 10 Uses of
mortal
in
Jane Eyre
- Miss Ingram ought to be clement, for she has it in her power to inflict a chastisement beyond mortal endurance.†
Chpt 17
- If I had time, and was not in mortal dread of some prating prig of a servant passing, I would know what all this means.†
Chpt 17
- Sympathies, I believe, exist (for instance, between far-distant, long-absent, wholly estranged relatives asserting, notwithstanding their alienation, the unity of the source to which each traces his origin) whose workings baffle mortal comprehension.†
Chpt 21
- Yes — just one of your tricks: not to send for a carriage, and come clattering over street and road like a common mortal, but to steal into the vicinage of your home along with twilight, just as if you were a dream or a shade.†
Chpt 22
- I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh; — it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal, — as we are!"†
Chpt 23
- One never knows what she has, sir: she is so cunning: it is not in mortal discretion to fathom her craft.†
Chpt 26
- The sufferings of this mortal state will leave me with the heavy flesh that now cumbers my soul.†
Chpt 27 *
- But she could not eradicate nature: nor will it be eradicated 'till this mortal shall put on immortality.'†
Chpt 32
- Will it keep you in England, induce you to marry Miss Oliver, and settle down like an ordinary mortal?†
Chpt 33
- How much of him was saint, how much mortal, I could not heretofore tell: but revelations were being made in this conference: the analysis of his nature was proceeding before my eyes.†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(mortal as in: mortal body) human (especially merely human); or subject to death