Word: mortalizes
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...From mortal eyes, with gentle might...
...remark that the most unendurable of tyrants is the petty tyrant. Puffed up by what little authority he has, he struts about as if ready to challenge the universe. To remind effectually such a little tin god-on wheels that he is after all nothing more than a common mortal, is a pleasure that falls to the lot of few. We rejoice, therefore, that the students so energetically rebuked recently the unwarrantable assumption of power by a too officious official. The Directors of the Dining Hall, in branding the Bursar's action in removing one of their official bulletins...
Till, of my mortal part...
...does it feel to "sweetly die"? and isn't it a little unusual to call "mind and soul and heart" portions of one's "mortal part...
...Lardy and Linda. When I did recognize these, however, I leave the reader to imagine what feelings I experienced. All that impotent rage and hate mingled with love, all that blighted hope and the consciousness of personal injury combined with everlasting affection, could put into the heart of mortal man was depicted in my countenance. I fell at the feet of the brutal wild man, and implored him to restore me to my Linda. "Linda," said he, - his face wore a far-away, dreamy expression; his heart beat violently against his waistcoat pocket, and caused his watch-chain to swing...