mortals

Then the Lord said, "My spirit shall not abide in mortals forever, for they are flesh; their days shall be one hundred twenty years."

Genesis 6.1-4 2007

Marian devotion was fully developed by the fourth century, and the chivalrous if not exactly doctrinal Christan viewpoint that women are more than mere mortals is traceable all the way back to the writing of The Shepherd of Hermas somewhere toward the end of the first century.

Archive 2007-06-01 2007

Marian devotion was fully developed by the fourth century, and the chivalrous if not exactly doctrinal Christan viewpoint that women are more than mere mortals is traceable all the way back to the writing of The Shepherd of Hermas somewhere toward the end of the first century.

A Response to Mir 2007

Then the Lord said, "My spirit shall not abide in mortals forever, for they are flesh; their days shall be one hundred twenty years."

Archive 2007-02-01 2007

Unfathomable to mere mortals is the lore of fiends (85).

National Demons: Robert Burns, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Folk in the Forest 2006

What distinguishes them from the rest of us mere mortals is that they can hack time, rewrite existential reality ... because they have the programming language.

Archive 2006-07-01 Hal Duncan 2006

What distinguishes them from the rest of us mere mortals is that they can hack time, rewrite existential reality ... because they have the programming language.

On Existence And Eternity Hal Duncan 2006

Instead of a timeless and erotic Hellenic pastoral in which the disparity between "deities" and "mortals" is inconsequential, the speaker interrogates a religious sacrifice with its intrinsic reminders of human mortality and limitation.

Ode on a Grecian Urn 2003

Monsieur de Ramière was not one of those blindly vain mortals who triumph on a day of victory.

Indiana 1900

And they call mortals that, I'm thinkin ', because they never die.

Fairies and Folk of Ireland William Henry Frost 1882