Word: mortalizes
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...stirs no more at mortal breath...
...given under the auspices respectively of the Philosophical and Philological Societies. It seems that the most intense rivalry has existed for some time between these two organizations. This fact affords the clew to the whole mystery. We can picture to ourselves the meeting in the lonely cellar (far from mortal care retreating); the first words of greeting; the conversation on various subjects; the first mention of either society; the lowering of the brow and darkening of the eye when at last they saw each other in their true light; the ill-suppressed wrath; the last fearful outburst of ungovernable anger...
...proportions. Though small and seemingly any thing but robust, it would have been worse than prolepsis - to would have been a terrible anacoluthon - to suppose that his prowess was to be measured by his stature. The fourth of this stout band had the keenest eye and longest head that mortal ever beheld. Clad cap-a-pie in chain armor he surveyed with sweeping glance the whole quadrangle. His single offensive weapon - a sword-cane - he used with such skill and precision that he could transfix an enemy with it every time at an angle of forty-five degrees. The conditions...
...foolish mortal, thou art not obedient...
...Mortal, beware...