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The Minister's Black Veil
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- I, perhaps, like most other mortals, have sorrows dark enough to be typified by a black veil.
*mortals = humans (especially merely humans)
- The people trembled, though they but darkly understood him when he prayed that they, and himself, and all of mortal race, might be ready, as he trusted this young maiden had been, for the dreadful hour that should snatch the veil from their faces.†
- No mortal eye will see it withdrawn.†
- "If I hide my face for sorrow, there is cause enough," he merely replied; "and if I cover it for secret sin, what mortal might not do the same?"†
- It is but a mortal veil—it is not for eternity!†
- In this manner Mr. Hooper spent a long life, irreproachable in outward act, yet shrouded in dismal suspicions; kind and loving, though unloved, and dimly feared; a man apart from men, shunned in their health and joy, but ever summoned to their aid in mortal anguish.†
- "And is it fitting," resumed the Reverend Mr. Clark, "that a man so given to prayer, of such a blameless example, holy in deed and thought, so far as mortal judgment may pronounce; is it fitting that a father in the church should leave a shadow on his memory, that may seem to blacken a life so pure?†
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
- (4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)