All 50 Uses of
mortal
in
The Throne of Fire
- Gods only talk when they're ready, and they don't have a good sense of mortal time.†
Chpt 1
- They'd duct-taped four Sons of Horus statues around the edges of the window and painted hieroglyphs on the glass to counteract the curses and the mortal alarm system.†
Chpt 1
- Mortal alarms blared.†
Chpt 2
- Not to mention that the mansion shimmers with magic and is invisible to regular mortals.†
Chpt 3 *
- The Brooklyn night skyline was back to normal, except for the emergency lights and crowds of screaming mortals in the streets.†
Chpt 3
- "Because unfortunately," Amos added, "the equinox is also the perfect time for Apophis to escape his prison and invade the mortal world.†
Chpt 4
- Besides, I'm the only one who knows how to find his cell, and that part of the Duat would be lethal to a mortal.†
Chpt 4
- If you saw this place as it really is, your limited mortal senses would melt.†
Chpt 5
- Horus released my ba, and my consciousness floated back to the mortal world like a helium balloon.†
Chpt 5
- If you won't succumb, your mortal friends will be here soon.†
Chpt 7
- When faced with magical events, mortal eyes tended to short-circuit, sending the brain only images it could understand.†
Chpt 7
- He was in his mortal form as a teen boy with dark, windblown hair and warm brown eyes.†
Chpt 7
- Sirens wailed from the street above, but we'd be dead or long gone by the time mortal help arrived.†
Chpt 8
- To most mortals.†
Chpt 8
- All that force of nature flowing underneath our feet makes it hard to stay anchored in the mortal world.†
Chpt 8
- Bast once told me the Duat was like an ocean of magic under the surface of the mortal world.†
Chpt 8
- The river was weakening them, loosening their connection to the mortal world like interference on a mobile phone line.†
Chpt 8
- The mortals are ready to storm the bridge.†
Chpt 8
- "They're mortals," Bes said.†
Chpt 8
- And my friends were just mortals—brave, mad, ridiculous, wonderful mortals.†
Chpt 8
- And my friends were just mortals—brave, mad, ridiculous, wonderful mortals.†
Chpt 8
- It's not the mortals I'm worried about.†
Chpt 8
- We slipped out of synch with the mortal world and passed through the iron gates and solid stone into the museum.†
Chpt 10
- We re-entered the mortal realm and found ourselves in the middle of the collection: sarcophagi in glass cases, hieroglyphic scrolls, statues of gods and pharaohs.†
Chpt 10
- The House of Life didn't allow mortals to summon gods.†
Chpt 10
- Regular mortals, magicians, ghosts, even demons could be wiped off the face of the earth.†
Chpt 10
- The sun god's entire form glowed with fiery images of his long life: the first dawn; his sun boat shining on the newly risen land of Egypt; the creation of the other gods and mortal men; Ra's endless battles with Apophis as he passed through the Duat each night, keeping Chaos at bay.†
Chpt 12
- They looked like the milky eyes of a mortal old man.†
Chpt 12
- I wondered if this was how the gods felt, watching the mortal world from their throne room in the Duat.†
Chpt 12
- The mortal archaeologists have excavated some of the tombs, but there's still a huge network of tunnels and chambers no one's opened in thousands of years.†
Chpt 12
- But a few of the gods like me stayed in the mortal world the entire time.†
Chpt 13
- "He rose from nothing to become a great scientist," Desjardins continued, "and a great magician—respected by mortals and magicians alike."†
Chpt 17
- Maybe to you mortals.†
Chpt 18
- One House of the Night might not correspond exactly to one mortal hour in the world above.†
Chpt 19
- Time in the mortal world doesn't stop passing just because you're in the Fourth House.†
Chpt 20
- We gods just love to have mortals laughing at us.†
Chpt 21
- I could almost believe he was still a regular mortal, but if I looked closely, I could see another layer to his appearance, like a fuzzy superimposed image: a blue-skinned man in white robes and the crown of a pharaoh.†
Chpt 21
- Even if we could get him back to the mortal world, he could never defeat Apophis—unless Apophis laughs to death.†
Chpt 21
- If I'd seen him in the mortal world, I might've guessed he was a young Native American billionaire casino owner.†
Chpt 21
- I can lengthen or shorten the lives of mortals.†
Chpt 21
- I could even smell fresh air—the scent of the mortal world.†
Chpt 21
- We were sinking into the Duat deeper than we'd ever been—deeper than any mortal was supposed to go.†
Chpt 21
- Mortals can't leave this cavern alive, but the two of you have been godlings.†
Chpt 22
- Menshikov's restored voice was smooth and confident, like Amos's tone whenever he used magic to persuade mortals.†
Chpt 22
- Menshikov had warned us that no mortal could survive this cavern, and I believed him.†
Chpt 22
- I was acting now for the sake of our friends, for the Kane family, for the whole mortal world.†
Chpt 22
- Menshikov's words echoed in my head: Mortals can't leave this cavern alive.†
Chpt 22
- But there was also the boat of Ra, blazing as it rose from the Duat, out of New York Harbor and into the sky of the mortal world. i S A D To observers below, the second sun appeared to merge with the light of the first.†
Chpt 23
- His clothes had reverted to the normal mortal ones we'd bought him in Cairo, but somehow he still looked quite imposing, quite confident.†
Chpt 23
- I don't remember how we got back home, but I remember feeling as if we were falling rather than ascending—as if the mortal world had become a deeper and sadder place than anywhere in the Duat.†
Chpt 24
Definition:
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(mortal as in: mortal body) human (especially merely human); or subject to death