Mortal in example sentence

My pity for him now began to revive that affection which at first I really had for him, and I endeavoured sincerely, by all the kind carriage I could, to make up the breach; but, in short, it had gotten too great a head, it preyed upon his spirits, and it threw him into a long, lingering consumption, though it happened not to be mortal.

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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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