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
- The countess Mathilda, grand duchess, his cousin-german, more powerful than himself in Italy, was his mortal enemy. A Philosophical Dictionary
- 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).
- 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
- 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. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
- 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
- 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).
- The award to a man deemed by the leadership to be a mortal enemy is a source of shame. Times, Sunday Times
- It was also the mortal enemy of horses and would rip them apart in seconds with its mighty talons.
- His one mortal enemy is change, and he has yet to figure out how to beat it.
