“Through the symbolism of the heavens the astrologer aims to gain a deeper spiritual knowledge of earthly matters, and seeks to understand the wider significance of the situations that trouble us.”
“When you're away from the office, you can think of no earthly reason to go back.”
“So - what is weather other than this incessant change of earthly conditions and all the human thoughts, feelings and undertakings influenced by it?”
“The undissolved matter then became apparently charcoal, which burned away to the state of a brown earthlike substance.”
“And combustion, as they understood it, happened when phlogiston, a hypothetical earthlike substance characterized mainly by its combustibility, was removed from an object.”
“The clouds were tinged an earthlike yellow in the sunrays and in the shadow were a sorry blue.”