earthly

“The Garden of Earthly Delights is full of earthly joys alongside grotesqueries, monstrosities, and torture.”

“(For many walke, of whome I haue told you often, and now tell you euen weeping, that they are the enemies of the crosse of Christ: / Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glorie is in their shame, who minde earthly things.)”

“We have this […] treasure in frail, brittle, and earthly vessels.”

“There is no earthly way, I mean no way on earth, that I will ever do that.”

“The pressures of politics and war seem remote on this lovely stretch of California coastline, but last week there was no earthly way to avoid them.”

“But earthlyer happy is the roſe diſtild, / Then that, vvhich, vvithering on the virgin thorne, / Grovves, liues, and dies, in ſingle bleſſedneſſe.”

“and dost thou, indeed, revive to existence only to again (even in more attempered blood) design the death of the innocent, helpless, orphaned memorial of a pure, a heaven and earthly-sanctioned flame, whose venial trespass was but the forestalment of your own decree?”

“He claims that the book directs the believer to let go of the earthly and await God's kingdom in the heavenly.”

“So, let all earthlies and celestials wait / Upon Thy royal state! / Sleep, sleep, my kingly One!”

“He arched his eyebrows over the summons. "The poor devil has not an earthly!" said he. "He's lucky to have a summons. Usually they act on a warrant."”

“You're here, aren't you, if it comes to a bunk but we're there, cut off so to speak, and if anything slips, like what that bloke makes out in his letter, we shan't have half an earthly.”