earthly
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Vimalakirti leans over the edge of his canopied bed with an impatient stare, as he argues that it is possible to enjoy earthly life while still abiding by Buddhist nonattachment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
It may feel like a medical miracle, but there’s a more earthly explanation.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026
The new season will get around to that question, though the alien and earthly plot lines are kept on separate tracks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
Scott-Heron’s lunar criticism is not so much concerned with the otherworldly as a space for imagining the earthly impossible, but for assembling earthly sites of decolonization and liberation.
From Salon ● Apr. 7, 2026
“There’s no earthly use of your worrying about things like that. You’ve got to learn.”
From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen
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 Stables, Gordon
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 Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
Tempest, Act V. "But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd."
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
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 Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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 Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
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 Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
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