Mortal in example sentence

You would have resigned yourself to enjoying the happiness of the rest of the world: esteem, riches, high rank ...But, dear Mathilde, your coming to Besancon, if it is suspected, is going to be a mortal blow to M. de La Mole, and that is what I will never forgive myself.

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Freud said, look, there's much more to it than speech: "No mortal can keep a secret.

During the time I was in Bosnia, the mortal remains of Zumra's eldest son were exhumed from a mass grave.

They're going to survive as long as our species survives on what Shakespeare called "this mortal coil."

I'm already beyond the lifespan of most hunter-gatherers, and the outcome of a mortal combat between me myopically stumbling around with a stone-tipped spear and an enraged giant aurochs isn't very hard to predict.

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