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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

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

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

But what earthly luck could have produced this black coat, made it stop — could have made it talk Shanghainese, no less, could have turned it right before his eyes into a sister, his sister?

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

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

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

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 Mosses from an Old Manse and other stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

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 Stories of Mystery by Rossiter Johnson

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