Earthly

Examples

• Behold the baits with which he fishes for souls, giving a poor space of earthly life in exchange for eternal happiness hereafter. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• It was good logic, good, earthly, feminine logic, and if it satisfied her I certainly could pick no flaws in it. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• It was not earthly; for I have seen nothing on earth like it: so pale, so still, and so expressive. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Earthly joys and hopes and sorrows Break like ripples on the strand Of the deep and solemn river Where her willing feet now stand. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• To be accepted by you as your husband and the earthly guardian of your welfare, I should regard as the highest of providential gifts. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Knoxville was of no earthly use to him while Chattanooga was in our hands. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Ideas of earthly superiority are educational, not innate. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Twice we crossed the famous Martian waterways, or canals, so-called by our earthly astronomers. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• That, Monsieur, I can never tell, because I do not know how long it will be before I shall cease to remember everything earthly. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• A sorrowful indifference to existence often pressed on me--a despairing resignation to reach betimes the end of all things earthly. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Earth was past,--and earthly pain; but so solemn, so mysterious, was the triumphant brightness of that face, that it checked even the sobs of sorrow. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The rain beat strongly against the panes, the wind blew tempestuously: One lies there, I thought, who will soon be beyond the war of earthly elements. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The passions, by being too much conversant with earthly objects, can never fix in us a proper composure and acquiescence of mind. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• They also had an idea that they looked on the face of an earthly angel. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The strength, agility, and blind ferocity of these two creatures is approached by nothing known to earthly man. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Of love it may be said, the less earthly the less demonstrative. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Not as a business matter, for these arrangements are usually verbal, and there was no earthly business reason why this should be an exception. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• What is it that sometimes speaks in the soul so calmly, so clearly, that its earthly time is short? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• There is no earthly doubt that he is retaken. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• And the sight which met my eyes was that of a slender, girlish figure, similar in every detail to the earthly women of my past life. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• The green Martians use no word corresponding in meaning with this earthly word. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• In Lydia's imagination, a visit to Brighton comprised every possibility of earthly happiness. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Wherefore, as above, we require you to send a priest to reconcile them to God, in doing which you shall render them the last earthly service. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• No earthly consideration would, at that moment, have shaken the resolution that was in me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I was alone with her, when her forlorn young head drooped gently on one side, and all her earthly wrongs and sorrows ended. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• This is the earthly punishment I have brought upon myself. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He loved her as something frail and earthly, yet almost worshipped her as something heavenly and divine. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I seek heavenly steadfastness in earthly monotony. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I said I wouldn't leave England, under existing circumstances, for any earthly consideration. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Oh, that death and sickness were banished from our earthly home! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

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