earthly
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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
For him, home can only be one shared with Catherine, and he must escape his earthly bonds to unite with her spirit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 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
These earthly dynamics are already part of the risk calculus for markets.
From Barron's ● Mar. 2, 2026
Longtime visitors to the Khumbu are saddened by the boom in tourism and the change it has wrought on what early Western climbers regarded as an earthly paradise, a real-life Shangri-La.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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)
The further she rises from earth, even in the earthlier aspects of love, the fairer she becomes for me.
From The Magic Skin by Marriage, Ellen
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 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)
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 Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne
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 Stevenson, Burton Egbert
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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