Both Uses
mortality
in
Lonesome Dove
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- A sad tone came into his voice from time to time, as if it pained him to have to remember that mortality could prevent him from doing her such a favor.†
Chpt 13-14 *
- The rest of them might fall by the wayside, their mortality taking gentle or cruel forms, but Gus would just go on talking.†
Chpt 58-59
Definitions:
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(1)
(mortality) the quality of being mortal (subject to death)
or:
death rate -- often given per 1,000 people per year - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)