How To Use Mortal enemy In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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
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Kebron was the mortal enemy of the term "gregarious," likely to try and eliminate it from any dictionary in any language.
Fire on High
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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
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But, in the area of management, we are only now beginning to recognise the mortal enemy.
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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.
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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.
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He had sworn for years that he was the mortal enemy of Bolshevism.
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It was somewhere around this time that someone (surely a mortal enemy from those dark years) dumped two cigarette stompies in my bottle of Mokador, something which was only brought to my attention when I offered some to her at the Taphuis an hour later.
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Professor James Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes's mortal enemy, wants to get his hands on a revolutionary new bombsight.
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Clearly, you don't want to make a mortal enemy of someone who will be in power for a while.
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He wore the customary expression of a man doing battle with a mortal enemy, common to all men adjusting their neckwear, but he undamped his lips to grin at me.
Sick Cycle Carousel
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How would they react in the face of a mortal enemy?
Times, Sunday Times
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That is not something I would wish on my most mortal enemy, let alone my friends.
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Further, the idea that only Salieri, the mortal enemy, fully appreciated Mozart's genius - albeit clandestinely and self-tormentingly - also feels excogitated and incredible.
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Rain is man's mortal enemy, foiling our fiendish plans at every opportunity!
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His one mortal enemy is change, and he has yet to figure out how to beat it.
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It was also the mortal enemy of horses and would rip them apart in seconds with its mighty talons.
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The award to a man deemed by the leadership to be a mortal enemy is a source of shame.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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At last the mortal enemy is death itself: this is a principal theme, held to with a strangely pathetic strength, in Canetti's literary works.
Nobel Prize in Literature 1981 - Presentation Speech
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Palestine itself did exist; it is the name granted to Israel by the Roman Empire after it quelled the Bar Kochba revolt in 135 CE; it was originally an insult to ancient jews living there as Palestine was from the greek/latin for of the term philistine to describe a mortal enemy of the jews; one who was constantly invading Israel in its early history, before its eventual eradication as a people.
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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
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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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The countess Mathilda, grand duchess, his cousin-german, more powerful than himself in Italy, was his mortal enemy.
A Philosophical Dictionary
