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
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
It’s a song about a ne’er-do-well who can’t help messing up, and Mr. Kahan wishes the best for him—hoping his greatest fears are earthly threats like personal safety and cancer and not eternal damnation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
“No need! No earthly need! You just rest yourselves. Can I buy you something at the snack shop?”
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
Her heart exulted, 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 Short-Stories by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Tempest, Act V. "But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd."
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
Yet the shy, hesitating compassion that thus had birth in me was far from being able to defeat the earlier, earthlier emotion.
From Famous Modern Ghost Stories by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
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
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
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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