Of the race of mortals, however, every voice was hushed.
"I am the King of what you mortals call the Golden River.
Very few mortals can spare the spring of hope, the motive force of expectation.
The way in which mortals practise pious frauds on themselves is really delightful!
Anyhow, she had to content herself with the means of communication used by ordinary mortals.
Ice, I say, doesn't, and it is rather lucky for us mortals, for if it had done so, we would all be dead.
The barrow he entered, sought the cup, and discovered soon that some one of mortals had searched his treasure, his lordly gold.
They were the Fates, deities whose duty it was to thread the days of all mortals who appeared on earth, were it but for an instant.
"College boys!" cried his lordship, winking and blinking, as other less majestic mortals do when awakened suddenly out of their morning sleep.
He was clothed in a black robe spotted with stars and his fleshless hand held the sharp sickle with which he is said to cut down mortals as the reaper cuts down corn.