“The difficult subject of child mortality and attitudes to it are discussed, using evidence that is inevitably incomplete.”

“It certainly brings up mortality and how we'll feel when faced with death.”

“Those are the ones to be warned against, and there is hardly a watering place in all of mortality now that is not infested with them.”

“Sooner or later, you're bound to realize that you're just another human being, nothing special, just an ordinary mortal like everyone else.”

“In the Adirondack mountains of New York, an attempt to reintroduce lynxes failed, with 18 of 37 mortalities attributed to road kills.”

“The eastern North Pacific stock of gray whales has been increasing in recent years despite known harvests and other human caused mortalities.”

“All mortalities are given per million population, with population sizes derived from censuses by interpolation or extrapolation.”

“A tiny jut of skin hangs off her upper lip, as happens to mortals in the winter.”

“Modern life whizzes by at a frantic pace and we mere mortals find ourselves in a constant whirl trying to find ways of catching up.”

“He was an adrenaline junkie who willed himself to do things mere mortals would not consider.”