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Example sentences for "mortal enemy"

  • This last work, a manuscript in the possession of Lord Fingal, is the work of a zealous Roman Catholic and a mortal enemy of England.

  • Burnet, by exhorting him to patience and forgiveness of injuries, made him a mortal enemy.

  • He was a renegade: he was a mortal enemy of the liberties of his country: he was of a bad and tyrannical nature; and yet he was, in some sense, a patriot.

  • He went home a devoted adherent of William and a mortal enemy of Lewis.

  • But as I was issuing from his dwelling, I ran against Colonel Beaumont—my mortal enemy—who was about to enter the house.

  • Beaumont—my mortal enemy—bidding for the most costly articles that were put up.

  • You may have in me a devoted friend or a mortal enemy.

  • This queen Margiana was a devout professor of the Mahummedan faith, and a mortal enemy to the adorers of fire.

  • I am," said she, "the serpent whom you lately delivered from my mortal enemy.

  • Saouy is my mortal enemy; and as soon as this affair comes to his knowledge, do you think he will not exult over me before the king?

  • The struggle for existence assumes its rudest and most violent aspect: it transfers man into conditions where each sees a mortal enemy in the other.

  • If you were not her husband, I should love you like a friend, but that accursed word renders you a mortal enemy of mine.

  • The electress of Wurtemberg is a daughter of George the Third of England, a daughter of my mortal enemy; hence, she shall bow to me or feel my power and my wrath.

  • This lady who tries to penetrate with so much passionate violence to your majesty is a dangerous intriguer, a mortal enemy of France and your majesty.

  • Chaos the Red, "mortal enemy of mine will I never harbour here save I harbour him dead.

  • By my head," saith the knight, "Sith that you slew him, you are my mortal enemy!

  • So would not I," saith the squire, "for never shall I see him in this place but I shall run upon him as my mortal enemy!

  • Sith that you have slain my brother, you are my mortal enemy, and were I to give her to you, she ought not to wish it, and were she to grant you her love she would be a fool and a madwoman.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after mass; born women; closer inspection; could rely; different authors; east trade; griddle cakes; his wife; hundred gulden; inch long; many pages; mortal agony; mortal combat; mortal enemy; mortal eyes; mortal life; mortal mind; mortal terror; mortal woman; mortal wound; mortality from; posse comitatus; posterior diameter; sauce made; saying something; sedimentary deposits