Word: mortalized
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...fagots of bruised nerves and the sound of their instrument echoes as hollowly to their ears as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal, dream, when asleep, of the perfect piano. They seat themselves before a suave and sable instrument that is pliant to their will as none that mortal hands have ever fingered; it speaks for them with a mighty organ voice; notes, at the command of their subconscious will, sing with the pomp of trumpets or the tenderness of fiddles, yet it is no pipe organ that they play, but a crisp, living, leaping engine of wire strings...
...abroad to be ordained. He studied Hebrew in Rome, went to Innsbruck to learn polity from the Jesuits, made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. In Canada he carried on a Holy War against modernism, denounced jazz, dancing, said that cinemas offered "serious dangers, if not approximate occasions, of mortal sin," forbade the clandestine sale of liquors...
...saving virtues of high-flown agreements-skeptical perhaps, but not cynical. The son of a Congregational minister who believed in predestination and foreordination, he himself began with an intention of entering the ministry; but, after two years' preparation, turned to the law and politics. Always a serious mortal, with few pleasures, he studies thoroughly the subjects he attempts-and masters them. For example, he is a master of Rivers and Harbors legislation and of public expenditures. Before he speaks, he learns ; and before he went abroad, he mastered the question of international trade in arms. Then he was required...
...Larry--No evasion, Paymore! Every hash-slinger and table-tumbler must know that customers are their mortal enemies...
...ascetic who was hated by his flock because he did not bully them into religion as a proper curate should. Instead he forgave them their malice, an effrontery that he aggravated when he robbed them of the pleasure of stoning him to death by taking poison to end a mortal illness...