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
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 absolutely nothing like it anywhere. Not on any other earthly creature anyway.”
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
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 Nathaniel Hawthorne
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 Gordon Stables
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
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 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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