All 19 Uses of
mortal
in
Sweet Far Thing
- Sometimes the mortals chose to follow us into this world, to become our playthings.†
Chpt 2 *mortals = humans (especially merely humans) or people subject to death
- "You stole mortals from our world," I say, horrified.†
Chpt 2
- The mortals had a choice.†
Chpt 2
- "But there are other considerations," I say, the knowledge that they took mortals for their own amusement burdening my mind.†
Chpt 2
- Did they really spirit away mortals?†
Chpt 2
- Leave us be, foolish mortals.†
Chpt 2
- When she gives the word, we will sacrifice their great priestess and both worlds—the realms and the mortals'—will fall to us.†
Chpt 4
- In the forest are souls of all sorts; creatures of every imagining; mortals, too.†
Chpt 4
- No taking mortals for playthings.†
Chpt 4
- They could cast grand illusions, influence people and events in the mortal world.†
Chpt 1
- He doesn't care for any mortal, and he especially doesn't care for me.†
Chpt 2
- We could become any mortal's fantasy.†
Chpt 2
- Foolish mortal!†
Chpt 2
- Their song is so lovely it can bewitch any mortal, and once they have you in thrall, they take your skin.†
Chpt 3
- "I grow weary, mortal girl," Golden Wings complains.†
Chpt 3
- "I do not know all, mortal girl," Golden Wings snaps.†
Chpt 3
- The birth of May, mortal girl.†
Chpt 3
- The citizens, living in mortal terror, can no longer draw water from the river, so frightened are they of the hideous beast.†
Chpt 4
- What you did to that mortal.†
Chpt 4
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)