All 6 Uses of
mortal
in
The Mill on the Floss
- Very trivial, perhaps, this anguish seems to weather-worn mortals who have to think of Christmas bills, dead loves, and broken friendships; but it was not less bitter to Maggie—perhaps it was even more bitter—than what we are fond of calling antithetically the real troubles of mature life.†
Chpt 1.7 *mortals = humans (especially merely humans) or people subject to death
- To poor Maggie they were very near; they were like nectar held close to thirsty lips; there was, there must be, then, a life for mortals here below which was not hard and chill,—in which affection would no longer be self-sacrifice.†
Chpt 6.13
- It is a sin to be hard; it is not fitting for a mortal, for a Christian.†
Chpt 5.5
- I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music.†
Chpt 6.3
- I, too, am an erring mortal, liable to stumble, apt to come short of my most earnest efforts;†
Chpt 7.4
- Along with the sense of danger and possible rescue for those long-remembered beings at the old home, there was an undefined sense of reconcilement with her brother; what quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?†
Chpt 7.5
Definitions:
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(1)
(mortal as in: mortal body) human (especially merely human); or subject to death
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(2)
(mortal as in: a mortal wound) causing death
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(3)
(mortal as in: felt mortal agony) extreme or intense