All 50 Uses
mortal
in
Circe
(Edited)
- "You do not mean a mortal?" The revulsion was plain on her face.
p. 6.1mortal = human
- Once when I was young I asked what mortals looked like.
p. 6.1mortals = human beings
- "What would happen," I said, "if a mortal saw you in your fullest glory?"
p. 8.3mortal = human
- What if a mortal saw me?
p. 8.4
- The mortal would count himself fortunate.
p. 8.4
- Divine days fall like water from a cataract, and I had not learned yet the mortal trick of counting them.
p. 8.7
- I looked for mortals, but we were too high up to see them.
p. 9.9mortals = human beings
- They were held in highest esteem among mortals, kept in palaces as counselors of kings, but sometimes my father lingered over one thing or another and threw their calculations into despair.
p. 11.7
- Prometheus was led astray by his foolish love for mortals.
p. 17.5
- It was not piteous, as it might have been in a mortal.
p. 21.7mortal = human
- "You aided mortals," I said.
p. 22.1mortals = human beings
- Will you tell me, what is a mortal like?
p. 22.1mortal = human
- My uncle Boreas and Olympian Apollo had fallen in love with the same mortal youth.
p. 25.8
- If I had been a mortal, I would have heard the beating of my heart.
p. 28.8
- "A mortal?" My mother sat up. "You said it would be a god."
p. 30.6
- Minos will rule all the other mortal souls in the afterlife.
p. 30.7mortal = merely human
- All those creatures Prometheus had given his eternity for. Mortals.
p. 31.1mortals = human beings
- Mortals had their own stories, after all, of what happened to those who mixed with gods.
p. 32.1
- Then Zeus' siblings and children, then my uncles, and on down through all the ranks of river-gods and brine-lords and Furies and Winds and Graces, until it came to the bottom where we sat, nymphs and mortals both, each eyeing the other.
p. 32.4
- Minos, king of Crete, son of Zeus and a mortal woman.
p. 33.2mortal = human
- A demigod, his kind were called, mortal themselves but blessed by their divine parentage.
p. 33.2
- He was pointing to a mortal, a man I had not noticed before, not quite so huddled as the rest.
p. 33.6
- He is one of the wonders of the mortal world, a craftsman almost equal to a god.
p. 33.8
- I should have spoken to those mortals, I thought.
p. 35.8mortals = human beings
- A mortal. Mankind was spreading across the world.
p. 36.4mortal = human
- I thought again of those stories of nymphs ravished and abused by mortals.
p. 36.9mortals = human beings
- Hail, mortal.
p. 37.2mortal = human
- It was still one of my favorite things to watch, that simple, mortal miracle of flint and tinder.
p. 40.3
- There is a mortal who needs fish from the sea.
p. 42.7
- And what does this mortal offer you in exchange?
p. 42.9
- That is one thing gods and mortals share.
p. 43.1mortals = human beings
- I went back to my father's halls that night and knelt at his feet and asked him if it was possible to make a mortal a god.
p. 44.6mortal = human
- If Glaucos remained a mortal, then he would grow old, and if he grew old he would die, and there would be a day upon that shore when I would come and he would not.
p. 44.8
- He is mortal, that is their lot.
p. 45.1
- If mortals could be made into gods so easily, would not every goddess feed them to her favorite?
p. 62.7mortals = human beings
- I did not know even the simplest herb-lore that any mortal would learn at her mother's knee: that wort plants boiled made a sort of soap, that yew burnt in the hearth sent up a choking smog, that poppies had sleep in their veins and hellebore death, and yarrow could close over wounds.
p. 84.7mortal = human
- You sound like a mortal.
p. 93.5
- To us, mortals sound faint and thin.
p. 93.6mortals = human beings
- There is no mortal in me, I am Titan only.
p. 93.7mortal = human
- I spend more time with mortals than most gods and have grown accustomed to their sounds.
p. 93.8mortals = human beings
- A god with a mortal's voice.
p. 94.1mortal = human
- He had taken a mortal to wife, and had a babe in swaddling and another in the belly.
p. 95.8
- I have never understood why helping mortals made Zeus so angry.
p. 96.6mortals = human beings
- Not far from here — less than a day's journey by mortal ship.
p. 97.9mortal = human
- They were mortals.
p. 102.3mortals = human beings
- Of all the mortals on the earth, there are only a few the gods will ever hear of.
p. 102.7
- If he noticed my mortal voice, he gave no sign.
p. 102.9mortal = human
- Circe's a fool for mortals, I hear.
p. 104.5mortals = human beings
- A wonder of the mortal world, my brother had called Daedalus, but this was a wonder in any world.
p. 105.6mortal = human
- At Minos and Pasiphae's wedding, the huddle of mortals I had glimpsed seemed distant and blurred, as alike as leaves on a tree.
p. 106.4mortals = human beings
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)