They'd long since tired of happy endings; immune to suffering themselves, they were enamored with mortal struggles and casualties.
It's the immortal product of often terrible mortal struggles.
I am not prepared to add to it and thereby detract from the strength of my country in its mortal struggle with the Communist enemy.
"It doesn't have to be that way," she said, each word a mortal struggle.
His sixth sense was telling him that Jonathan was already locked in a mortal struggle, and lately David's intuition had not been wrong.
There is not in them that sombre atmosphere of a mortal struggle which we find in the second part of Daniel.
"Between me and the central banks there is a mortal struggle," he said, over roast lamb at a local restaurant.
The feeling of power and purpose that young men experienced in the mortal struggle against fascism and totalitarianism was not easily shed.
But to look on inactively while the mortal struggle raged all around was impossible, it was beyond human strength.
People come with grisly wounds, and sometimes stay for months as they battle infections and complications in often mortal struggle.