earthly
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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
Now that I was here, I had no earthly idea what I was going to do.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
But first, to penetrate this barrier, the soul with which you listen must be sharpened by intense enthusiasm, purified from all earthlier desires.
From Zanoni by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
But earthlier happy is the rose distilled Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
From Breakfasts and Teas Novel Suggestions for Social Occasions by Paul Pierce
Compassion, divine compassion, mastered the earthlier emotion of terror in the great heart of the woman who loved him.
From Blind Love by Wilkie Collins
From theology he turned to purely human and materialist philosophy; from an ideal of pure love to earthlier defilements.
From Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
Tempest, Act V. "But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd."
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
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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