uncelestial

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But any hopes Young has to make the city more heavenly may depend on his ability to heal some decidedly uncelestial bitterness sowed in his campaign's final days.

From Time Magazine Archive

Man’s angry heart, inspected, would be found As rightly set, as are the starry spheres; ’Tis Nature’s structure, broke by stubborn will, Breeds all that uncelestial discord there.

From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Young, Edward

What enabled him to see it so clearly was his familiarity with the ways of men and the uncelestial politics of Florence.

From The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry by Austin, Alfred

Man walks, then, not only in a vain show, but wrapped in an uncelestial aureole of his own material exhalations.

From American Woman's Home by Beecher, Catharine Esther

It has an uncelestial scent, The clothing of this mendicant;" He cried, "That trickling down my spine Is anything but hyaline.

From Lundy's Lane and Other Poems by Scott, Duncan Campbell