Have I come here once more to meet a fiend in mortal combat?
"All the language has been hijacked by people we're in mortal combat against," he said.
Yet here were the two Residents locked in mortal combat.
The old and new definitions are so opposed as to be in mortal combat.
They seemed eternally on the point of mortal combat with each other.
And he was talking about ordinary civil litigation, not mortal combat with the government.
They wage mortal combat on all others of the species from outside the colony.
Maybe they were locked somewhere in mortal combat or something.
He'd lost the eye, long ago, in mortal combat beneath the earth.
But otherwise, if these people want mortal combat let's give them just that.