Use earthly in a sentence
Sentences starting with earthly
- Earthly life offered art material enough. [10]
Sentences ending with earthly
- Venice reveres those relics above all things earthly. [5]
- Joan's eyes were deep and rich and wonderful beyond anything merely earthly. [5]
- None but Ann could stand beside her, and her beauty was Italian and heavenly rather than German and earthly. [10]
Sentences containing earthly two or more times
- If he omitted to do so, then she would consider it decided that he renounced his earthly for his heavenly love, and try herself to give up the earthly one, in which, however, she believed she had recognised something divine. [10]
- And when the day came on, which must remove her in her earthly shape from earthly eyes for ever, he led him away, that he might not know when she was taken from him. [12]
- My father, Amon--as an earthly son His earthly father--so I call on Thee. [10]
More example sentences with the word earthly in them
- Pardon, if I wrong Those heavenly words that shame my earthly song! [6]
- What earthly consideration would you take to find her scouting and despising you, and giving herself up to another? [7]
- The tyrant who wore this gaudy cloak was, no doubt, devoid alike of truth and conscience; but, as to his being a philosopher, who knew the worthlessness of earthly things and turned his back upon the world, those who could might believe it! [10]
- After these farewell words Frau Maria's features became painfully distorted, the lids drooped over her eyes, there was a brief struggle, then a slight gesture from the physician announced to the weeping group that her earthly pilgrimage was over. [10]
- No earthly man with a hundred-fold strength does so much evil as Mithra with heavenly strength does good. [6]
- My friend Archibius wishes me a long life, if any one does; but he is as wise as he is faithful, and therefore will consider that earthly life is by no means a boon in every case. [10]
- The earthly kingdom which was to come was to be the result of some kind of a cataclysm. [9]
- The guilt for which she was threatened with punishment was by no means small, and even if her earthly judge did not call her to account, she would go to confession to-morrow and honestly perform the penance imposed. [10]
- The night before when, after her conversation with Els, she began to pray, she had feared that she had fallen into the snare of earthly love, and dreaded the confession which she had to make to her aunt Kunigunde. [10]
- The train marched westward; for there, where the earthly remains of man also found rest, the millions of suns had disappeared, each of which was succeeded daily by a new one, born of the night. [10]
- How many tears were shed over those coffins which contained the earthly remains of many a young life once rich in hopes and glowing with warm enthusiasm, many a quiet heart which had throbbed joyously for man's noblest possession! [10]
- Is there any way for us Protestants, when love for the dead longs to find expression in action, except to adorn with flowers the places which contain their earthly remains? [10]
- He knew there was no help for him, and that he was looking his last upon earthly things, but "he would not sit. [5]
- My whole nature was filled with the longing to utilize and enjoy this brief earthly life which Feuerbach had proved was to end with death. [10]
- This same condition was equally favorable for the operations of any professional experimenter who would use the flame of religious excitement to light the torch of an earthly passion. [6]
- It was in virtue of this that his rare genius acted on so many minds as a trumpet call to awaken them to the meaning and the privileges of this earthly existence with all its infinite promise. [6]
- When Porphyro looked upon Madeline at her prayers in the chapel, it was too much for him: "'She seemed a splendid angel, newly drest, Save wings, for heaven:--Porphyro grew faint, She knelt, so pure a thing, so free from earthly taint. [6]
- If ever man took large and eager hold of earthly things and appropriated them to his own use, it is the American. [4]
- It is half-sister to the genius for music, and has some of the features which remind us of earthly love. [6]
- Bury her according to the customs of your church; we have come to arrange the earthly possessions she leaves behind. [10]
- It was curious to see a good strong shadow of an earthly object cast upon so intangible a field as the atmosphere. [5]
- A brief admonition to renounce her earthly love in order to share the divine one whose rich joys he hoped to taste that very day was the farewell greeting he vouchsafed Eva. [10]
- Poets who come to recite their verses and reformers who come to explain their projects are among the most formidable of earthly visitations. [6]
- It went on to point out how the heathen had devised their gods in the image of weak, sinful, earthly beings, and chosen victims in accordance with this idea. [10]
- Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day! [12]
- Her misery seemed to him a touching proof of the transitory nature of all earthly things. [10]
- Still, he had to be born, to take in his share of the atmosphere in which we are all immersed, to have dealings with the world of phenomena, and at length to let them all "soar and sing" as he left his earthly half-way house. [6]
- G. Look up, thou poor disconsolate; you speak of quitting earthly enjoyments. [5]
- Like this--just like this--was every earthly pleasure, every joy of this brief existence. [10]
- If I understand them, he was a better man, in a better condition of earthly happiness, and with a better chance of heaven, fifty years ago than now, before the "era of progress" found him out. [4]
- I read in the Zend Avesta, "No earthly man with a hundred-fold strength speaks so much evil as Mithra with heavenly strength speaks good. [6]
- Swift's account of the Struldbrugs is not very amusing reading for old people, but some may find it a consolation to reflect on the probable miseries they escape in not being doomed to an undying earthly existence. [6]
- More and more the old man finds his pleasures in memory, as the present becomes unreal and dreamlike, and the vista of his earthly future narrows and closes in upon him. [6]
- He vividly realized the magnitude of his debt of gratitude, not to the Immortals only, but also to his earthly friends, as he recalled every moment of this morning's experience. [10]
- And she contemplated the Honora of other days--of the flesh, as though she were now the spirit departed from that body; sorrowfully, poignantly regretful of the earthly motives, of the tarnished ideals by which it had been animated and led to destruction. [9]
- He thought of the dim and dread future,--all the changes that it would bring to him, to all the living, to the face of the globe, to the order of earthly things. [6]
- The wishing-carpet of the Arabian Nights was a sensible idea--but our earthly idea of angels flying these awful distances with their clumsy wings was foolish. [5]
- Let us hope that our dead have at last found that rest which neither summer nor winter, nor day nor night, had granted to their unending earthly labors! [3]
- It is a terrible thing to take away hope, even earthly hope, from a fellow-creature. [3]
- Then rose and swelled out above those common earthly sounds one of those rich chords the secret of whose make only the Jubilees possess, and a spell fell upon that house. [5]
- Was this, the spectacle presented by my Cousin Robert, the reward of earthly existence? [9]
- It is not so: the foolish trivial end, The inconsequent paltry Nothing--gone--gone all; The genius of the ageless Something spend Itself within this little earthly wall: The commonplace conception, that we reap Reward of drudge and ploughman--idle sleep! [11]
- Berg with tender smiles was saying to Vera that love is not an earthly but a heavenly feeling. [2]
- But it is singular, isn't it, that such a matter should interest Orion, when it is of no earthly consequence to me? [5]
- Poor everybody that sighs for earthly remembrance in a planet with a core of fire and a crust of fossils! [6]
- She desired to show Him that though she neither could nor would resign her earthly lover, her heart still throbbed for the divine One as tenderly as of yore. [10]
- By common report she is endowed with more than earthly powers; and since he cannot have the boon of death, he appeals to her to drown his memory in forgetfulness of his griefs--forgetfulness 'which is death's equivalent'. [5]
- It did not seem wise, to her, to put one's entire earthly trust in the Tennessee Land and never think of doing any work. [5]
- Cleopatra eagerly assented, saying: "Absence of pain has ceased to appear to me the chief earthly blessing, since I have known that love does not bring pleasure only, since I have learned that pain is the inseparable companion of love. [10]
- He was still resolved to keep it, but earthly life appeared less short, and he could not conceal from himself that, without Barbara's sunny cheerfulness, bewitching tenderness, and, alas! [10]
- He perceived the relation of earthly beauty and heavenly truth. [10]
- He is always ready to listen with sympathetic attention to the arguments for the reappearance of the souls of the dead in the earthly form they have quitted, to visit and converse with the living. [10]
- In a brief prayer beside his devout friend Heinz expressed his gratitude, and called upon him to witness that, even in the world, he would not forget the shortness of this earthly pilgrimage, but would also provide for the other life which endured forever. [10]
- If all earthly power were given me, I should not know what to do, as to the existing institution. [7]
- If all earthly power were given me, I should not know what to do as to the existing institution. [7]
- There is no place for comparison between the two friendships; the one is earthly, the other divine. [5]
- The guests were petrified, and the mason muttered: "There is that about earthly pomps which doth ever move to reverence. [5]
- But as a perishable perfect man must die, and leave his despotism in the hands of an imperfect successor, an earthly despotism is not merely a bad form of government, it is the worst form that is possible. [5]
- It is best, perhaps, that one should avoid being a duke and living in a palace,--that is, if he has his choice in the robing chamber where souls are fitted with their earthly garments. [6]
- It was always on the basis of my earthly habits, experiences, and limitations. [6]
- A vast number of the populace ascended the citadel hill early in the morning, to get out of the way of the general destruction, and many of the infatuated closed up their shops and retired from all earthly business. [5]
- Through the drizzle of the autumn rain they heard the wild thunderbolt tear the trees from earthly moorings. [11]
- During the hours of solitude, suffering, and partial delirium he spent after he was wounded, the more deeply he penetrated into the new principle of eternal love revealed to him, the more he unconsciously detached himself from earthly life. [2]
- Could the joy of love, of earthly love for a man, be for her? [2]
- He was conscious of an aloofness from everything earthly and a strange and joyous lightness of existence. [2]
- This oil was not earthly oil; it was made in heaven; the flask also. [5]
- Our physicians would not be celebrated and esteemed as they are, if we did not believe that their skill could prolong our earthly existence. [10]
- I now have no doubt that it is the peculiar misfortune of both you and me to dream dreams of Elysium far exceeding all that anything earthly can realize. [7]
- My dog loves me, but could he look beyond His earthly master, would his love extend To Him who--Hush! [6]
- What earthly possessions may perhaps come to him he will owe solely to my favour, and it would choose for him the only right way. [10]
- Large and small manufactories of it were everywhere erected, in which all the earthly goods of their owners were invested. [7]
- Here his mind, like that of a dying man's, grasped for brief intervals what life had offered and what awaited him beyond the confines of this short earthly existence, in eternity. [10]
- I hold the key of all your earthly fortunes in my hand. [6]
- E'en when the ivy o'er my grave hath grown, Still will ring on each sweet, enchanting tone, Through the whole world and every earthly zone, Resounding on in aeons yet to come. [10]
- They wouldn't do it then, only earthly tradition makes a grand show pretty necessary on that kind of an occasion. [5]
- Your earthly house is set in order, but are you prepared for the other, the everlasting mansion? [10]
- In fact, there is nothing earthly that lasts so well, on the whole, as money. [6]
- The whole scene is as vivid in my mind as any earthly landscape. [4]
- All this, and infinitely more, showed itself to me during a single revolution of the sphere: twenty-four hours it would have been, if reckoned by earthly measurements of time. [6]
- The light streamed in through vast windows, dark with the purple robes of royal saints, or blazing with yellow glories around the heads of earthly martyrs and heavenly messengers. [6]
- If later, hand in hand, we can interweave it with the earthly one, why should it not be acceptable to the Saviour? [10]
- She was arrayed in bridal garments, and decked with a chaplet of white flowers, but her heart evidently revolted at this mockery of a spiritual union, and yearned after its earthly loves. [4]
- It seems as if, even in heaven, King David might remember "The Lord is my Shepherd" with a certain twinge of earthly pleasure. [6]
- Did not the holy expression of her eyes and the aspiration of her own soul show that she would understand him, approve his sacrifice, imitate it, and exchange earthly for heavenly love? [10]
- Alexander had given him this certainty; for when he had seen Korinna by the lake, her soul had long since abandoned its earthly tenement. [10]
- Fate had raised her son to the summit of earthly grandeur and saved him from every clanger. [10]
- She was in her early teens, and the thought of her earthly future, as it stretched out before her, was more than she could bear, and she sought the presence of her Maker to ask the meaning of her abortive existence.--We will talk it over. [6]
- If I remember her at all it is as a vision, more like a glimpse of a pre-natal existence than as a part of my earthly life. [6]
- Nor can we help regretting the loss for him of a bright and cheerful earthly future; for the old age of a physician is one of the happiest periods of his life. [3]
- Eva was happiness--but Heaven had vouchsafed a miracle to prove the transitoriness of earthly life, that by renunciation here he might attain endless bliss above. [10]
- Gradually her maternal heart attributed to her John alone the desire of the world-weary earthly pilgrim to lay aside the purple and return to Spain. [10]
- She refused to have her mission examined and tried by the earthly Church. [5]
- The wine which has flown to our hands out of space by desire is earthly, and good enough for that other toast; but throw away the glasses; we will drink this one in wine which has not visited this world before. [5]
- They have worked hard for small earthly compensation. [6]
- Aye, no earthly happiness could compare with the blissful feeling left by those hours of pious ecstasy. [10]
- If hitherto she had yearned to drain heavenly bliss from the chalice of faith, during her wanderings through the house she had longed for nothing save to drink her fill from the cup of earthly joy. [10]
- If the Gaul had found him with his wife, and had run his sword through his heart, he would have gone unpunished by the earthly judge--however, his father is spared this sorrow. [10]
- But we get glimpses now and then of a sphere of spiritual possibilities, where we, dull as we are now, may sail in vast circles round the largest compass of earthly intelligences. [6]
- I want to give you an assurance, which I know will comfort you--and that is, that I find in my husband the tenderest nurse, the kindest support, the best earthly comfort that ever woman had. [14]
- In another the future great historian is lying--and doubtless will continue to lie until his earthly mission is ended. [5]
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