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earthly

[urth-lee] / ˈɜrθ li /




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"Good morning, my people. I regret to inform you of the departure of my son Prichard from this earthly world," Richard Colon wrote on Facebook.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

When the slumming Ponce, who lives somewhere else and who picked up a semblance of education, tries to explain that all earthly agriculture is reliant on bees, he gets blowback.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Conjuring fantasies is one of humanity’s most ancient arts — a sacred creative practice — but without earthly rooting, the symphony is incomplete.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

It may feel like a medical miracle, but there’s a more earthly explanation.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026

The voice rose and fell in a rhythmical, dreamlike recital-part enumeration of earthly trials undergone by the congregation, part rapt display of vocal virtuosity, part appeal to God.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

Her heart exalted, while it trembled, at his honorable love—so pure and lofty that it would accept nothing less than perfection nor miserably make itself contented with an earthlier nature than he had dreamed of.

From The Short-story by William Patterson Atkinson

May I not dream God sends thee there, Thou mellow angel of the air, Even to rebuke my earthlier rhymes With music's soul, all praise and prayer?

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 by Burton Egbert Stevenson

The further she rises from earth, even in the earthlier aspects of love, the fairer she becomes for me.

From The Magic Skin by Ellen Marriage

I thought, too, that she only lingered here, till my earthlier soul should be purified for heaven.

From Other Tales and Sketches (From: "The Doliver Romance and Other Pieces: Tales and Sketches") by Nathaniel Hawthorne

May I not dream God sends thee there, Thou mellow angel of the air,     Even to rebuke my earthlier rhymes With music’s soul, all praise and prayer?

From Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites by Gordon Stables

But the moon still revolveth around all that is earthly: so revolveth also the prince around what is earthliest of all—that, however, is the gold of the shopman.

From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche




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