All 6 Uses of
mortal
in
The Poisonwood Bible
- To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know.†
Chpt 5 *mortals = humans (especially merely humans) or people subject to death
- The whole time Father was interrogating us on the porch, in my mind's eye I was seeing her slumped over in the kitchen house, banging in mortal frustration against that locomotive engine of a stove.†
Chpt 1
- In the beginning I knew no Kikongo beyond the practical words she taught me, so I was spared knowing how she cursed our mortal souls as evenhandedly as she nourished our bodies.†
Chpt 2
- It's hard to imagine a mortal man more unwilling to change his course than Nathan Price.†
Chpt 2
- She feels no obligation to have good thoughts on behalf of her mortal soul in the hereafter, or even the here and now.†
Chpt 2
- This is no mortal business.†
Chpt 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