The eastern sky, out over the ocean: a welcome touch of Earthliness.

The mortal allurements of earth, and earthliness are a common theme for writers.

And the result is a tense marital drama played against opposing metaphors of earthliness (the arid desert floor) and yearning (the beckoning night sky).

Her untidiness was gone, she was washed and groomed and reasonably well rested; but gone, too, was the last real earthliness.

"Oh, believe it," said Atmeh, and she smiled, for she had heard-at long last-a fallible trace of earthliness in his choice of phrase.

"The fact 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."

The intellect and pretensions to godliness of Mr Voss are compared unfavourably with the simplicity and earthliness of the pardoned convict Judd.

This sense of transcendence from earthliness coincided with his appreciation of the power of God, which had moved successively through monarchy, Parliament, and New Model Army, each time effecting a further spiritual refinement of terrestrial life.

Her face was oval, marked in every cameo-like line and feature with that expression of absolute, flawless purity, found in the angels and Madonnas of old paintings, a purity that held in it no faintest strain of earthliness.

The play is lifted from recognizable earthliness in large ways and small; it never names Los Angeles as its setting, and though the persistent Hollywood references suggest it, Primitivo has his workouts in the early morning, which means he'd be swimming east toward the sun.

What a fool is he who locks his door to keep out spirits, who has in his own bosom a spirit he dares not meet alone,--whose voice, smothered far down, and piled over with mountains of earthliness, is yet like the forewarning trumpet of doom!