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Meanings of earthly in английском

Of or belonging to or characteristic of this earth as distinguished from heaven.

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Usage of earthly in английском
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The good news is that most earthly itches are in fact scratchable.
Wired
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But more earthly forces may be working against Abdullah in northern Afghanistan.
Reuters
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His natural and earthly desires were not gratified; often ours cannot be.
A Day of Fate
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There is no earthly use in laying down general laws about them.
Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography
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Also, what earthly good are pictures of the inside of a glovebox?
The South African
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The first figure was entirely naked in its earthly and spiritual innocence.
Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches
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The traces of my earthly life can not pass away in eons.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
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The earthly family is the scaffold whereby we build the spiritual one.
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II
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Suppression refers to the subjugation of our natural inclination towards earthly objects.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 / Books 8,...
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All her earthly interests centred now in the cultivation of her intellect.
Heart and Science: A Story of the Present Time
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I had no time for reading it; earthly studies absorbed every moment.
True to his Colours / The Life that Wears Best
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You would not act so in regard to the shortest earthly journey.
Joy and Power: Three Messages with One Meaning
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Rain, he thought, annoyed at such an earthly intrusion at that moment.
A Cavern of Black Ice
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The test is only secondarily the loss of all Job's earthly goods.
Three philosophies of life
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So you couldn't possibly cross hoppers with any kind of earthly animal.
Divide and Rule
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Of love it may be said, the less earthly the less demonstrative.
The Return of the Native
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