"Earthliness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... will mingle," remarked the old sculptor to me; for often there was an earthliness in ...
— Twice Told Tales • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... you, rough from the world's rough work, with all out-door airs blowing around you, and all your earth-smells clinging to you, but with a fine inward grace, so strong, so sweet, so salubrious that it meets and masters all things, blending every faintest or foulest odor of earthliness into the grateful incense of ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, Issue 67, May, 1863 • Various
... thoughts an upward tendency towards eternity, will say that the effort is easily and generally successful. On the contrary, if an ethereal and holy inhabitant of heaven were to go up and down our earth, and witness man's immersion in sense and time, the earthliness of his views and aims, his neglect of spiritual objects and interests, his absorption in this existence, and his forgetfulness of the other, it would be difficult to convince him that he was among beings made in the ...
— Sermons to the Natural Man • William G.T. Shedd
... that you wore no ornaments is a strong proof of your un-Barsoomian origin, while the absence of grotesque coverings might cause a doubt as to your earthliness." ...
— A Princess of Mars • Edgar Rice Burroughs |
