How To Use mortal enemy In A Sentence
- On this occasion, Campobasso gave his opinion, couched in the apologue of the Traveller, the Adder, and the Fox; and reminded the Duke of the advice which Reynard gave to the man, that he should crush his mortal enemy, now that chance had placed his fate at his disposal. Quentin Durward
- But this was the same skewed rhetorical ideology employed in Vietnam decades ago, as we patronizingly told the nodding rice farmer by day that the Viet Cong were his mortal enemy, while as night fell, that same rice farmer recovered his hidden weapons and became the Viet Cong. Fallujah, the Guernica of Our Times, Part 3
- Susan was unusually emphatic and destitute of punctuation in her discourse on this night, which was the night of Mr Dombey's being brought home, because, having been sent downstairs by Florence to inquire after him, she had been obliged to deliver her message to her mortal enemy Mrs Pipchin; who, without carrying it in to Mr Dombey, had taken upon herself to return what Miss Nipper called a huffish answer, on her own responsibility. Dombey and Son
- Kebron was the mortal enemy of the term "gregarious," likely to try and eliminate it from any dictionary in any language. Fire on High
- There is no such mortal enemy of genius as poverty except riches: a touch of the spur from time to time does good; but a constant rowelling disables. Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions
- But, in the area of management, we are only now beginning to recognise the mortal enemy.
- Vikings fans embrace their former mortal enemy in the name of “winning at any cost”, even their own pride, like a battered wife longs for comfort even from the batterer. Think Progress » Chavez Attacks U.S. Efforts In Haiti: ‘They Are Occupying Haiti Undercover’
- And though China is a geopolitical competitor, it is not a mortal enemy of the United States as the Soviet Union was (unlike Nikita Khrushchev, Mr Hu has never promised to "bury" the West).
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- Just three weeks in to the new term and I've already made myself a mortal enemy.
