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n. (plural of mortal English)
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Mortals is the second novel by American author Norman Rush, and was published in 2003. The close third-person narrative follows Ray Finch, an American anthropology CIA agent student in Botswana after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Ray suspects his beloved wife Iris of an affair with Davis Morel, a Harvard-educated "eclectic medicine" practitioner and anti-theist with a mission to rid Africa of religion, Christianity in particular.
Category:2003 novels Category:Spy novels Category:Novels set in Botswana
Usage examples of "mortals".
Diomedes steps forth, body and face and shield blazing, the light evidently apparent even to the other mortals, visible to his fellow Achaeans and the opposing Trojans.
Walking among the mortals, playing the role of middling sorceresssuch a deadly risk, though perhaps this is what entices you so to the mortal game.
Sleeping Goddess chose, a thousand and more years ago, and she sleeps still, even as you awakenthe time has come, Ancient One, to once more walk among the mortals, and make of your grief, the sweetest gift.
Hold to your unassailable self-confidenceaye, some might well call it megalomania, but not Kruppe, for he too is in possession of unassailable self-confidence, such as only mortals are capable of and then rightfully but a mere handful the world over.
Divine Providence, but after the issue, since mortals are not able to discern the future, whether it be good or whether it be evil.
There were troubles and bloodshed aplenty, mortals being what they were, but it was a golden age both for them and the Goddess.
Its members, both mortals and demons like you, serve a black and deadly god who gives them power in both the seen and unseen realms.
They were only mortals, but she felt a deep guilt at the way they had been manipulated by fate, especially the way Uskban and Pognak had suffered and been warped.
A hero and a statesman, but more importantly one of the few mortals who had touched her heart.
These mortals had been hard-used by fate, which had crippled their souls but shaped them into the type of men she needed.
There are those who forswear killing, and they may be what is best in mortals, but neither you nor I are of that kind.
She did not believe in pampering mortals, but neither did she approve of drinking of their life and making their last moments an unimaginable torment.
The great beast was not alive as mortals know life, but the talisman was slowly sapping its enormous strength.
Aphrodite has turned me into a spy, and I know the punishment we mortals have always dealt out to spies.
But this day, instead of encountering deference and awe, instead of conversing with the foolish mortals eager to be cajoled into more interesting ways of slaughtering one another, they are attacked on sight.