How To Use Earthly In A Sentence

His Eminence Don Pelasio de Labastida, an eighteenth century bishop of Mexico City set a scandalous example of such indulgence in earthly pleasures. To the charreada with stars in her eyes
The job involved getting up at some unearthly hour to catch the first train.
Good luck to him: but there is no earthly reason why BBC radio should timidly do the same, and debauch one of our greatest programmes in the process.
The oblique rays of the sun on the orchards create this typical landscape that traditional iconography would associate with an earthly paradise.
This horse was so fleet, and its rider so expert, that they are said to have outstripped and coted, or turned, a hare upon the Bran-Law, near the head of Moffat Water, where the descent is so precipitous, that no merely earthly horse could keep its feet, or merely mortal rider could keep the saddle. Old Mortality, Complete

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The early European navigators arriving in South America, believed they had reached the Earthly Paradise.
A cat less agile than the rest of his species had been known to entangle himself in the little swing window, and to hang there all the night, sending forth unearthly caterwaulings, to the unspeakable terror of Miss Wendover's guest, unfamiliar with the mechanism of the room, and wondering what breed of Hampshire demon or afrit was thus making night hideous. The Golden Calf
Were it not so we would be the only Utopia on the globe -- a mythical Earthly Paradise, or a buried sea-city of Atlantis whose only discord is the music of its silver bells. The Conquest of National Fear
Over the ruins of the castle rose an unearthly wind, carrying with it an inhuman wail.
These yield an unearthly effect, especially since the artist has draped his monogram, suspended from a garland, across the top of the picture.
Determined to forget his past, he is finally able to devote himself to the more elevating aspects of earthly existence.
Vegetarians even have their own central section (the vegetarian bar) on the long buffet table, which is skylit by an unearthly golden glow.
Through the symbolism of the heavens the astrologer aims to gain a deeper spiritual knowledge of earthly matters, and seeks to understand the wider significance of the situations that trouble us.
In this earthly life nothing is perfect.
You haven't an earthly chance of beating her at tennis — she is one of the best players in the country.
But what earthly use has a man for valves in the intercostal veins which carry blood almost horizontally backward to the azygos veins? Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884
Shekinah was but a poor and transitory symbol has 'tabernacled' amongst men in the Christ, and has from Him been communicated, and is being communicated in such measure as earthly limitations and conditions permit, and that these do point on assuredly to perfect impartation hereafter, when 'we shall be like Him, for we shall see Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)
On the other hand, ‘bitter envy and selfish ambition’ does not come from above, ‘but is earthly, unspiritual, devilish’.
The city of Banares is in effect just a big church, a religious hive whose every conceivable earthly and heavenly good is procurable under one roof.
There's no earthly reason why she shouldn't come with us.
An unearthly silence brooded in the cabin, broken only by Bishop filling a basin from the water-bucket, and by Corliss seeking out his smallest and daintiest house-moccasins and his warmest socks. CHAPTER 20
For we know that if the earthly frame that houses us today should be demolished, we possess a building which God has provided - a house not made of human hands, eternal, and in heaven.
Tarkovsky's spirituality is profoundly alien to the west's dualism: it is earthly, earthy, as cool and clear and material as the water his camera spends so long dwelling upon.
Why? because the doctrines he preached to them were directly contrary to their lusts and corrupt affections, and defeated their expectations of a worldly Messias, who should have answered their sensual desires with the plenties and glories of such an earthly kingdom, as they had wholly set their gross hearts and souls upon. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II.
There is an angel in the cave, or if not, an earthly paragon.
It was human-shaped, tall and muscular, but it glowed with an unearthly blue light.
Except that it determines the course and context of your next earthly incarnation, rather than whether you'll be spirited off to heaven or hell.
Morgan braced himself as the process began; the whole room shook as the generators began churning out an unearthly hum.
Mintep looked me over in silence for a moment or two; when he had seen me before I had been dressed in my earthly clothes, now I was garbed (or ungarbed) like a Vepajan. Pirates of Venus
While in Plato there is the foreshadowing of the truth that the goal of moral endeavour lies in godlikeness, with Aristotle the goal is confined to this life and is conceived simply as the earthly well-being of the moral subject. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics
Over the ruins of the castle rose an unearthly wind, carrying with it an inhuman wail.
If it's not interrupting teatime viewing of The Simpsons then it's popping up at the most unearthly of hours.
As a check, ask yourself, "How would my choice of clothing be perceived by my Heavenly Parents..by my earthly parents...by someone with unchecked lustful thoughts. Growing Up - Learning Modesty in Dress
Cats' cries have an unearthly quality.
Now they heard the distant baying of house-dogs, now the doleful call of the chuck-will's-widow, and once Mary's blood turned, for an instant, almost to ice at the unearthly shriek of the hoot owl just above her head. Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform
He didn't suffer for any earthly reason. Christianity Today
Thus the impure sublunary fire conveys neither heat nor light, but as it kindles upon some earthly materials of wood, stubble, or the like; but the nobler and celestial fire in the body of the sun, that works all these effects by a communication of its own virtue, without the interposal of those culinary helps: it affords flame and light, and warmth and all, without fuel. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VI.
Platonists was Henry More, one of whose hooks Addison quoted four essays back (in No. 86), and who died only four and twenty years before these essays were written, after a long contest in prose and verse, against besotting or obnubilating the soul with the 'foul steam of earthly life.' Spectator, June 13, 1711
But we cannot, since even Adam, in innocence, needed one amidst his earthly employments; therefore the sabbath is still needed and is therefore still linked with the other nine commandments, as obligatory in the spirit, though the letter of the law has been superseded by that higher spirit of love which is the essence of law and Gospel alike (Ro 13: 8-10). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
He set the alarm for 5 a.m. the next day and woke up at what for his household was an unearthly hour.
This is how poor, flighty Lucy Westernra ought to float toward her demon lover - as if she were already severed from earthly ties.
Before long a carnival of color began which I can only describe as delirious, intoxicating, a hardly bearable joy, a tender anguish, an indescribable yearning, an unearthly music, rich in love and worship. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
Some of the reviewers when the book appeared seemed to find evidence for a sudden conversion round about 1934, but his disgust for earthly things is displayed over and over again in his early novels.
To begin with, the map was two miles to the inch, and was not contoured -- merely hachured -- which is no earthly use where the peaks are crowded up within a few hundred yards of each other, so that three peaks in line appear on the map as one ridge, though there may be dips of 500 feet between them, and looking at it the other way, it is very hard to believe that a place which it takes you one and a half hours to reach walking is less than a mile on the map. The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry and 14th (F. & F. Yeo.) Battn. R.H. 1914-1919
Young folks and chillun being raised up real biggity like dey is now, dey can't serve nothing, kaise if you can't serve your earthly father, how is you gwine to serve your Heavenly Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4
There was an unearthly howl in the distance that chilled Zeya to the bone.
I can see no earthly reason to cut this to be honest.
When two writers are involved who happen to be great contemporary poets, artistic equals, the material that explodes out of the depths is bound to be incandescent, exhilarating, unearthly and passionate. Ted Hughes's final lines to Sylvia Plath bring closure to a tragic tale
For, thought Ahab, while even the highest earthly felicities ever have a certain unsignifying pettiness lurking in them, but, at bottom, all heartwoes, a mystic significance, and, in some men, an archangelic grandeur; so do their diligent tracings-out not belie the obvious deduction. Moby Dick; or the Whale
An unearthly silence brooded in the cabin, broken only by Bishop filling a basin from the water-bucket, and by Corliss seeking out his smallest and daintiest house-moccasins and his warmest socks. CHAPTER 20
Neruda called the site "high city of laddered stone / finally resident of what is earthly" in perhaps his fine poem, "Alturos de Macchu Picchu." 140 stone structures comprise the site, along with terraced outcroppings for farming irrigated by an intricate system of fountains and aqueducts fed by underground springs. Meg Waite Clayton: Exploring Machu Picchu 100 Years After Hiram Bingham
From there on you're woken up at unearthly hours to be continuously tested and prodded.
The Regent oligarchs, holding office for life, were like kings by divine right, they too answered to no earthly power.
They carried us in their wombs for nine months, woke at unearthly hours to tend to our screams.
And then a lank, grey-bearded man, perspiring copiously in a noble passion of self-help, blind to all earthly things save that glaring, bait, thrust between them in a cataclysmal rush towards that alluring "x 5 pr. G. When the Sleeper Wakes
His earthly life ended with a literal shake-up. Times, Sunday Times
Geography used to deal with things that have been dependable and solid for thousands of millions of years, the mapping of the certainties of earthly existence. Times, Sunday Times
The moonbeams caused the gems of elaborate jewelry to glow with an unearthly light, as if they possessed a heart pulse of their own.
Here was the situation, as I recounted it to myself: somehow, I was trapped in some unearthly dimension where Baltimore, actor Emilio Estevez, and myself had somehow collided in a big cartoon scrum complete with onomatopoeias and clouds of dust. I'm Not Emilio Estevez
Until those laws are repealed British businesses and consumers will be paying a very high price for no earthly benefit. Times, Sunday Times
He didn't suffer for any earthly reason. Christianity Today
The question remains: is the concurrent rise of solar activity and of earthly temperatures a coincidence or a cause-and-effect relationship?
he could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din
His mates cheered him off at the unearthly hour of 4 a.m. in the pouring rain from a bar that has asked to remain anonymous in the interests of good taste.
But it is not the figure of any earthly personality, however noble and ennobling, which is the object of the Psalmist's contemplation. Brooks by the Traveller's Way
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In addition to signifying sagehood and wilderness travel, the staff also carries meaning as a potent tool in Daoist lore, where it plays various roles to assist the adept's escape from the earthly world.
Many Orthodox churches have above the altar, in the apse, the iconographic picture of the community of the apostles with Christ as the heavenly liturgist in the robes of an earthly priest.
Cleanse me, ye stars, from earthly soil and scath Quotations
There's no earthly reason why you shouldn't trailblaze to a rather gorgeous beach. Times, Sunday Times
Earthly things were mortal - subject to change and transition - while the stars and planets were eternal and incorruptible.
“I could be sorry for these men,” he said, “ay, and for that poor Queen, but what avail earthly sorrows to a man of fourscore? — and it is a rare dropping morning for the early colewort.” The Abbot
Next, it is one of the powers ‘which rule our earthly destiny,’ that is, _fortune_ rules _destiny_. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin
And then a lank, grey-bearded man, perspiring copiously in a noble passion of self-help, blind to all earthly things save that glaring, bait, thrust between them in a cataclysmal rush towards that alluring “x 5 pr. G.” When the Sleeper Wakes
There is a heavy use of earthly colours of tree-bark brown and earth red in Aboriginal art as the Aborigines are deeply influenced by nature.
It's novel and antinovel, locked in carnal embrace, and fighting it out for the earthly vehicle of the author.
The oblique rays of the sun on the orchards create this typical landscape that traditional iconography would associate with an earthly paradise.
Whit turned to look at Solace, who was glowing with an unearthly light.
He complied of course, and stood shading his haggard face in the unwonted sunlight of the great window, looking as wan and unearthly as if he had been summoned from the grave.
His little child, the hope of the realm, had come and passed as swiftly as some fair vision of the night, leaving scarcely a trace of his short earthly career save in the heart of the mother where its every memory would be cherished deathlessly. The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus
The most stunning demonstration of its unearthly spell occurs late in Pequod's ill-fated voyage, when the ship is illuminated by an eerie outburst of corposants in the midst of a violent squall.
The only visible emblem of Ahura Mazda worshipped by the Parsis is fire, and it would seem that the earthly fire, which is called Ahura Mazda's son, is venerated as the offspring and representative of the heavenly fire or the sun. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV)
When he received a letter accepting his first book'it was like getting a letter from an unearthly address. Times, Sunday Times
She turned back to the television screen, its unearthly blue light washing out her face.
The second obvious element in Shelley's poetry is his love of beauty, not the common beauty of nature or humanity which Wordsworth celebrated, but a strange "supernal" beauty with no "earthly" quality or reality. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived
Meanwhile "inebriation in all its most brutal and disgraceful shapes" takes its moral toll upon the masses in the form of vile oaths, imprecations, naughty songs, and pervasive "ribaldry"; thus procedures that are intended to facilitate public participation actually create an "earthly hell" on the deck of the outlaw vessel (405). Love and Merit in the Maritime Historical Novel: Cooper and Scott
He halves nothing whatever with our more earnest-minded juniors who -- perennially discovering that all religions thus far put to the test of nominal practice have, whatever their paradisial _entrée_, resulted in a deplorable earthly hash -- perennially run yelping into the shrill agnosticism which believes only that one's neighbors should not be permitted to believe in anything. The Queen Pedauque
The earthly commonwealth being a reflection of the divine, secular power was therefore subordinate to spiritual.
There's no other earthly reason to be disappointed.
I was woken up at some unearthly hour of the morning by someone knocking on my door.Sentence dictionary
Constantly he creates situations for which he can find no earthly solution and his characters encounter difficulties beyond their means to control.
His waxy face stills glows an unearthly peach colour above his neatly clipped ginger beard. Times, Sunday Times
They have no education, no taste for reading, no housewifery, nor indeed any earthly occupation, but that of dressing their hair, and adorning their bodies.
In that tradition, it may be recalled, the crucifixion of Christ is construed as Christianity's repudiation of the earthly and fleshly, to which Dionysian intoxication is the alternative.
Dante transports an earthly historicity into his heaven and hell, in an idiom which is both sublime and sublunary.
Then an unearthly, spooky, almost howling sound joined it.
Space exploration and science beyond and above our contemporary earthly biotope is without doubt likewise promising and useful. Up, Up and Away! Helium Balloon Telescope Explores the Sun | Universe Today
All men are miserable in earthly kingdoms, for fate leaves no-one under the heavens unchanged. There is No Future without Love (a Rare Political Post)
What earthly purpose can it serve?
Presently appeared a kind of barracoon, a large square of thick cane-work and thatch about eight feet high, the Fetish house of the "Jinkimba" or circumcised boys, who received us with unearthly yells. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2
Prayer is one way to get you closer to God, but the Anglican Bishop of Grafton, Philip Huggins used more earthly means - a cherry picker to be precise - during Saturday's blessing of the new six-bell carillon at St Andrews Church.
Yeats refers to the concepts, in his treatises, of earthly and celestial hierarchies and of a ‘Mystical Theology’, through which knowledge of God and the progressive deification of man may be attained by a process of Neoplatonic abstraction. Later Articles and Reviews
Dandy was now upon what they call the simplicity dodge; that is to say, he affected that character of wisdom for which certain individuals, whose knowledge of life no earthly experience ever can improve, are so extremely anxious to get credit. The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
All Deities may assume earthly incarnations.
She was bewitching, enchanting, graced with an unearthly elegance.
They proceeded onward: the earthly Paradise was unfolded to their view; the air was balmy, and laden with rich fragrance from the numberless flowers around; but instead of filling the spirit with soft languor, and indisposing the body to exertion, the gentle breezes imparted new vigor to the frame, and the buoyant, hilarious feelings of early youth shot through the veins, making the thoughtful eye sparkle, and giving to the grave foot of saddened maturity the elasticity of childhood. Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside
I was woken up at some unearthly hour of the morning by someone knocking on my door.
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. Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none
One of the ways of freeing the spirit from the trammels of its earthly role is to replace the fleshly mask with another, the mask of art, which more faithfully portrays the soul beneath.
The oblique rays of the sun on the orchards create this typical landscape that traditional iconography would associate with an earthly paradise.
Many spiritually advanced people I know (not coweringly religious, mind you, but deeply spiritual) identify Obama as a Light worker, that rare kind of attuned being who has the ability to lead us not merely to new foreign policies or health care plans or whatnot, but who can actually help usher in a new way of being on the planet, of relating and connecting and engaging with this bizarre earthly experiment. OBAMA IS THE SPIRITUAL LEADER WE HAVE BEEN LONGING FOR
Rock music, prog especially, constantly attempts to evoke certain unearthly worlds via musical experimentation.
He was powerfully built, tall and brown, with straight black hair to his shoulders, radiating a manly beauty and inner strength that was unearthly in its intensity.
Anna had realized that for most people on Erde, even players, the term harmony had a far more general meaning in Liedwahr " something akin to "not creating dissonance" rather than the earthly technical musical meaning of parallel chords or supporting lines of music distinct from the melody line. The Spellsong War
We were only shylocked once - an exorbitantly priced lunch, the final total of which bore no earthly resemblance to the prices of the food we'd seen inside the door just moments before.
And when we finally learn what is lurking in the corridor, making all that unearthly din, the reveal is ridiculously rich.
The language is shouted or perhaps sung by one unmoving performer to the other, creating an unearthly effect.
Paul who were supposedly too earthly in their pastoral concerns and too lenient in enforcing doctrine and liturgical standards.
Chivalry, pure and passionless women, unearthly beauty, some high southern fantasy possessed them.
It suddenly dawns on him that there is no earthly reason for him to go to Pritchard at all.
A software engineer's wife was made to take a bath at the unearthly hour of 2 a.m. with ice cold water.
Amazingly, there are as many different species of meiofauna -- about 3 million -- as of all other earthly creatures combined, says biologist Paul Montagne of the University of Texas. Traveling Sharks
Because earthly magnetic field has the character that attracts iron, cobaltic , nickel, human body contains this 3 elements likewise.
Before last week, the Latino share of the electorate had risen steadily for a decade and a half, and there's no earthly reason to think it won't resume its upward climb in 2004.
When he received a letter accepting his first book'it was like getting a letter from an unearthly address. Times, Sunday Times
These Oreads are peculiar: they come upon you with an unearthly charm, like some starlight evening; they inspire a wild but not warm delight; their beauty is the beauty of spirits: their grace is not the grace of life, but of seasons or scenes in nature: theirs is the dewy bloom of morning - the languid flush of evening - the peace of the moon - the changefulness of clouds. Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
The enjambment of ‘un/earthly’ comes across not so much as violent or macabre (as the word unearthly might suggest) but again as hesitation.
It is a time to gain a new look on life, to purify oneself and to regain the sense of Godly aspiration as the central purpose for this earthly incarnation.
The Crimson Hand expressed the ineludible gripe, in which mortality clutches the highest and purest of earthly mould, degrading them into kindred with the lowest, and even with the very brutes, like whom their Mosses from an Old Manse
The last of our own Platonists was Henry More, one of whose books Addison quoted four essays back (in No. 86), and who died only four and twenty years before these essays were written, after a long contest in prose and verse, against besotting or obnubilating the soul with 'the foul steam of earthly life.'] [Footnote 2: which] [Footnote 3: Paraphrased from the 'Academe Galante' (Ed. 1708, p. 160).] [Footnote 4: couple] ***** The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays
The crimson hand expressed the ineludible gripe in which mortality clutches the highest and purest of earthly mould, degrading them into kindred with the lowest, and even with the very brutes, like whom their visible frames return to dust. The Short-story
Could it be a manifestation of an ancient family curse involving vampirism, or is something more earthly - yet equally sinister - at play?
Had the fire of divine love glowed more fervently in her heart, she would feel the joy of ecstasy, such as consoled the death-bled of the mothers of the saints when the revelation of the sanctity of their children was the last crown of earthly joy. Alvira, the Heroine of Vesuvius
Yet she is a fine thing, speaking in a worldly way; for there are two distinct tempers of mind in which we judge of things, -- the worldly, theatrical, and pantomimical; and the unearthly, spiritual, and ethereal. Among My Books Second Series
This life dwelt in Him during His earthly ministry, though comparatively few availed themselves of it; His death set it abroach for all the world; the smitten rock yielded streams of living water; the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit; from His throne He proclaimed Himself as He that liveth, though He became dead, and is alive forevermore. Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI.
The oblique rays of the sun on the orchards create this typical landscape that traditional iconography would associate with an earthly paradise.
He suggested a meeting at some unearthly hour of the morning.
This is the year in which I have no earthly reason to gripe, complain and stamp my feet over the results of the annual Academy Awards competition.
If these signs appear in some earthly body such as wood, iron or polished stone, it is called "geomancy," if in water "hydromancy," if in the air "aeromancy," if in fire Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
As things are today, there seems no earthly reason why resolution of issues cannot be achieved.
They were terrifying and unearthly, eerily bloodchilling as they invoked all evil spirits to possess them.
And so Basrans toil in the blazing heat of the Arabian Gulf, waiting for fate, kismet, providence, grace - or perhaps the more earthly mechanism of globalization - to inspire them to reclaim their former greatness.
The son's room, then, may remain just that: an earthly shrine to an idolatrous attachment.
That we be not corrupted with the unsatiate desire of vanishing earthly treasure; A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6
When he received a letter accepting his first book'it was like getting a letter from an unearthly address. Times, Sunday Times
Los Angeles in the year 2106 is a garden of earthly delights where culture, cultivation, and technology merge as infranatural sites — a hybridization of infrastructure and nature. NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS from Jennifer Siegal | Inhabitat
Ever see that third panel in "The Garden of Earthly Delights" by Hieronymus Bosch, Suzanne? May 21 Rapture: Books We Will (And Won't) Be Reading If The World Really IS Ending Tomorrow (PHOTOS)
It was unlikely I was going to find Adie playing Space Invaders at such an unearthly hour, but it was worth a try.
She became a heavenly idea exciting emotions in him, instead of an earthly object productive of sensations; yet a correspondence of all that had been in the sensations was still seen, purged and eternized, in the emotions. The Friendships of Women
This bittersweet and nimbly-illustrated tale of a wise girl whose bird-brained father attempts to rise above earthly sorrow will lift the spirits of readers young and old. My Dad's A Birdman: Summary and book reviews of My Dad's A Birdman by David Almond.
Shrieking yowls rang through the cold trees behind me, unearthly and terrifying, and that fear was all that dragged me to my feet again.
There is no earthly reason why our courts should be shielded from public gaze.
a night-mare in which the objects and the danger are real, and the spell of corporal death appears to be protractible at the pleasure of the persons who preside at your unearthly torments. The Room in the Dragon Volant
Of earthly goods the best is a good wifeA bad the bitterest curse of human life.
-- Coffee in the seventeenth century, inoculation in that which followed; since which we have had now and then a new dance and a new game at cards, curry and mullagatawny soup from the East Indies, turtle from the West, and that earthly nectar to which the East contributes its arrack, and the West its limes and its rum. Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society
Initially serving as either hubris or hyperbole, this trope likens the lover's earthly vision of the beloved to the angels' beatific, heavenly vision of God and the divine joy produced by that mysterious vision.
I was up at the unearthly hour of 4.30 a.m. to catch an early flight to Paris.
All that is connoted by the adjective ‘carnal ‘is the very reverse, and savors of that which is ‘earthly, sensual, devilish.’
People, the moment you start rationalizing earthly power and authority in * earthly* government has been established by GOD, you challenge and threaten to take away our earthly agency and our sense of the Divine invested in us in the call to "do good, do justice" and change corrupt government. Top Stories - Google News
It represents at once the idea of protection from earthly harm, and with the pentangle symbol, the profound Christianity (and thus heavenly protection) that was necessary to knights' culture.
Which means, no earthly reason to go near the brutes. Times, Sunday Times
The other forms relate to threats following a feud between two families, abuses or dialing at unearthly hours and disconnecting before the call is through.
If you hear a tantrum of unearthly proportions coming from a vaguely northeasterly direction tomorrow afternoonish, sorry for the noise. A symphony of icepicks « The Life and Times of Organic Mama
Her strange, unearthly beauty is undimmed. Times, Sunday Times
To put it mildly, the monks' dogged persistence in spite of these waxing and waning earthly powers suggest they know a thing or two about sticking around. Christianity Today
Whether Pope meant the line to be ironic or not, the poem clearly comes down on the side of earthly, physical love and remembering, as opposed to the ‘vestals’ who have never lived at all and have nothing to forget.
The unearthly silence was broken by a shrill screaming.
The City of Man is a world of profound imperfection, peopled by fallen, sinful beings who can only hope for ultimate citizenship in the City of God through an earthly life of piety.
What was most galling was that there was no earthly reason why the Leinster final couldn't comfortably have been brought forward by a week or a fortnight.
Upon closer inspection it's an Alice in Wonderland orgy of amply bosomed ladies skipping through a garden of earthly delights. Greg Garry: Dirty Pillows
Their current project aims to link the earthly with the heavenly.
Of earthly goods the best is a good wifeA bad the bitterest curse of human life.
There is no earthly reason for you to call it a day.
There is no earthly reason why you should deprive yourself of the luxury.
mortify," -- that is, extinguish and destroy all that force and vigour of corrupted nature which inclines to earthly, carnal things, opposite unto that spiritual, heavenly life and its actings which we have in and from Christ, as was before declared. Pneumatologia
I think my mobile phone would have to be securely locked away, my computer removed to a place where there would be no earthly possibility that I might happen to glance upon it.
An avid footballer and ballet fan, she has also inherited her mother's strong Methodist beliefs, and is known at university as a key happy-clappy player in God's earthly squad.
Jake heard an odd, unearthly, high-pitched noise, and then the lights went back on.
If a man thus falls into sickness and cold, he is sometimes caught by dropsy, that is to say, he has an inclination towards the outward possession of earthly things. The Adornment of the Spritual Marriage
Vegetarians even have their own central section (the vegetarian bar) on the long buffet table, which is skylit by an unearthly golden glow.
When local Poirier made the trip from minimal techno to hip hop, he made sure to keep his unearthly sense of abstractionism intact.
His temperature leaps by bounds, his cheeks are flushed crimson, his pulse beats fast, and his eyes wear an altogether unearthly aspect.
Tonight, he looks at Hieronymus Bosch, in particular his immense triptych The Garden Of Earthly Delights. The weekend's TV highlights
That apoliticism fostered a belief in the limitation of earthly power. Times, Sunday Times
The fay lived in groups called the faerie, between the heavenly and earthly realms. Excerpt: The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue
He was a fierce, conflicted hater who never quite reconciled his earthly and spiritual ambitions.
Of earthly goods the best is a good wifeA bad the bitterest curse of human life.
Their faith, that ‘life is hard and success doesn't come easy ’, is undermined by Joe's evangelism of an earthly paradise of wealth and hedonism.
Humans and other earthly life forms evolved within the protective shell of the magnetosphere and the atmosphere, shielded from most of the harmful solar and cosmic radiation.
Earthly occurrences and objects are not only regarded as "foreknown" by History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7)
His hairstyle also reminds me of a tonsure, and his monkish qualities include withdrawal from Earth and earthly delights; his commission and starship serve as a monastery.
Upon this a grey-haired, writhled shrimp, who had heard of the presence of an earthly man, came and fell at my feet, weeping profusely. The Visions of the Sleeping Bard
There seemed to be no earthly reason for the Bureau to resist such status-but it did.
Secondly, they have both a kind of absoluteness which raises them above earthly things. Theological Essays of the Late Benjamin Jowett: Seleted, Arranged, and Edited by Lewis Campbell
Then the alarm will be set for some unearthly hour to sort things out.
incorruptibility" of the heavenly bodies, their external connexion with "motor spirits", the influence of the stars on the generation of earthly beings, the four "simple" bodies, etc. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
This he did by striking out wildly upon the keys in all directions; and at the same time the faithful Clarence, slumberingly waiting for his master's return to earthly matters, burst into full cry. Tutors' Lane
The coals in the hearth glowed a dull red in prospect and the space echoed with unearthly silence.
A seething hangover that needed walking off sent me there at such an unearthly hour, but the pain is optional.
The Buddhists and Brahmanists teach that the man's individuality is not secured until he has passed through and become disembarrassed of the last of these groups, the final vestige of earthly taint.

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