Lay
Mortal
Mortal adjective - Likely to cause or capable of causing death.
Both words in one sentence
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Theseus, who defeated the Minotaur and became King of Athens, has an interesting parentage: Poseidon ravished his mother Aethra on the same night that she lay with her husband Aegeus, which in the Greek understanding gave him two fathers, one divine, and one mortal.
- I doubt one living mortal in a hundred thousand could even point to where Livonia used to be, on a mapnote It lay where Estonia is today, for the curious.
Source: Self-Inflicted Hell - Special mention goes to Paul von Oberstein who, as he lay dying from a mortal wound, told the doctors to refrain from making a futile attempt to save him, then left a short instruction concerning his dog and calmly passed away.
Source: Face Death with Dignity
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