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Examples
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Does any mortial man in England care a phig for your politix?
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He has not written near so much as me (being an infearor genus, betwigst ourselves), but he says he never had such mortial difficklty with anything as with the dixcripshn of the plott of your pease.
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His Marchyniss, the lovely & ecomplisht Emily de St. Cornichon, quitted this mortial spear very soon after she had presented her lord with the two little dawling Cherrybins above dixcribed, in whomb, after the loss of that angle his wife, the disconslit widderer found his only jy on huth.
Burlesques 2006
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As it was, we was obliged to wait 4 mortial hours for the next train (4 ears they seemed to us), and then away we went.
The diary of C. Jeames De La Pluche, Esq., with his letters 2006
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Mighty fine, truly! but let mortial man tell the meannink of the passidge.
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As it was, we was obliged to wait 4 mortial hours for the next train (4 ears they seemed to us), and then away we went.
Burlesques 2006
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His Marchyniss, the lovely & ecomplisht Emily de St. Cornichon, quitted this mortial spear very soon after she had presented her lord with the two little dawling Cherrybins above dixcribed, in whomb, after the loss of that angle his wife, the disconslit widderer found his only jy on huth.
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Some stray kix and buffits will fall to you — mortial man is subjick to such; but if you begin to wins and cry out, and set up for a marter, wo betide you!
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` She's a-sottin 'in that cheir there, as she hav' been since the mornin ', widout sayin' a worrd to mortial saol afther she tould us to sind for the docther.
The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea Henry [Illustrator] Austin
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"Don't talk to me of any bed, but the bed of glory, woman," says he -- lookin 'mortial grand.
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