Both Uses of
mortal
in
Pygmalion
- Henry Sweet, then a young man, lacked their sweetness of character: he was about as conciliatory to conventional mortals as Ibsen or Samuel Butler.†
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- That less expert mortals should require fuller indications was beyond Sweet's patience.†
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Definition:
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(mortal as in: mortal body) human (especially merely human); or subject to death