All 50 Uses of
mortal
in
The Lost Hero
- It makes mortals see things in a way they can understand —like their eyes might just skip over this valley completely, or they might look at that dragon and see a pile of cables.†
Chpt 4mortals = humans (especially merely humans) or people subject to death
- They didn't mingle with mortals as much.†
Chpt 8
- The gods gather that day, as mortals always have, because there is strength in numbers.†
Chpt 10
- It keeps mortals from seeing magic things.†
Chpt 16
- He pointed below, and Leo saw that the mortals were starting to take notice.†
Chpt 18
- Unlike my brethren, I've been known to fall in love with mortals.†
Chpt 20
- He believes we Olympians have become too involved in the affairs of mortals, in the fates of our demigod children, especially since we agreed to claim them all after the war.†
Chpt 25
- Gods are different from mortals, boy.
Chpt 29 *mortals = humans
- Bad enough mortals won our war for us, but then that young upstart, Percy Jackson—".†
Chpt 29mortals = humans (especially merely humans) or people subject to death
- But as I was saying, the gods felt ashamed, shown up by mortals.†
Chpt 29
- Bad PR to admit you needed mortals to help beat an enemy.†
Chpt 33
- Still, mortals do notice it indirectly.†
Chpt 36
- But obviously the mortals love me.†
Chpt 38
- For most mortals, that's simply too hard to accept.†
Chpt 39
- It spurs mortals to greatness.†
Chpt 39
- You can entertain me while I eat all the other mortals.†
Chpt 42
- Jason gazed at the valley below —the roads backing up as mortals stopped their cars and gawked at the burning mountain.†
Chpt 45
- But mortals can't look upon you in that form!†
Chpt 51
- For American mortals, it is still their bloodiest conflict of all time—worse than their casualties in the two World Wars.†
Chpt 53
- The Roman gods don't like to interact with mortals so much, and—well, you're the king.†
Chpt 55
- Half god, half mortal.†
Chpt 3
- "The valley is protected from mortal eyes," Annabeth said.†
Chpt 4
- Satyrs don't have mortal souls.†
Chpt 4
- But your dad is mortal.... "Very," Piper agreed.†
Chpt 4
- M-i-s-t. It's a kind of veil separating the mortal world from the magic world.†
Chpt 4
- Mortal minds—they can't process strange stuff like gods and monsters, so the Mist bends reality.†
Chpt 4
- No. You said yourself I'm not a regular mortal.†
Chpt 4
- Just mortal.†
Chpt 4
- Jason imagined a truck's reversing noises—beep, beep, beep—as the centaur's lower half disappeared and the chair folded up, popping out a set of fake human legs covered in a blanket, so Chiron appeared to be a regular mortal guy in a wheelchair.†
Chpt 7
- He named you Jason, after my favorite mortal.†
Chpt 7
- When the talking finally subsided, Rachel took another step toward the audience, and fifty-plus demigods leaned away from her, as if one skinny redheaded mortal was more intimidating than all of them put together.†
Chpt 10
- The Big Three ...their pact not to have mortal kids ...how could we not have known about him sooner?†
Chpt 10
- So you understand, we cannot have unauthorized people flying in his airspace on creaky dragons, scaring the silly mortal peoples.†
Chpt 18
- We were his crewmates aboard his ship, the Argo, in the old times, when we were mortal demigods.†
Chpt 18
- "But Jason—our Jason—he died a mortal death," Zethes said.†
Chpt 18
- We are to crush your little mortal faces.†
Chpt 20
- He's just a mortal!†
Chpt 21
- Your most dangerous mortal enemy waits there.†
Chpt 25
- His worst mortal enemy would be waiting here.†
Chpt 25
- I am mortal.†
Chpt 28
- An organized mind for a mortal, but incredibly weak.†
Chpt 28
- It's dangerous, powerful enough to destroy any mortal who looks upon us.†
Chpt 29
- And to have Jackson refuse our gift, as if being mortal were somehow better than being a god ...well, that stuck in Zeus's craw.†
Chpt 29
- She's mortal.†
Chpt 31
- What our satyr friend means, Your Majesty, is that you're the second mortal we've met who should be—sorry—dead.†
Chpt 32
- I was the powerful mortal king of Arcadia, with fifty fine sons, and Zeus slew them all with his lightning bolts.†
Chpt 34
- My friend simply mistook you for Helen of Troy, the most beautiful mortal of all time.†
Chpt 37
- And how often are the mortal weathermen right?†
Chpt 38
- No, it was much better Tristan believed that I was a mortal woman who left him without explanation.†
Chpt 39
- We can't take a mortal into battle," Jason said.†
Chpt 46
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)