Earthiest

This is why I love my husband: given these opposites to work with, the earthiest of roots and the most exotic of fruits, he sees harmony, not discord. ❋ Kristin Kimball (2010)

“Robicheaux remains one of the coolest, earthiest heroes in thrillerdom.” ❋ James Lee Burke (2010)

This hot, urgent quaking, this most unexpected onslaught of the earthiest of passions, was like nothing she had ever in her life expected to feel, and to her own amazement she discovered she was now completely powerless to resist. ❋ KAREN ROBARDS (2010)

Its rhetorical tropes are never so complex that they distract us with fancy intellectual footwork This earthiest of dawn songs glows, in fact, with the warm, straightforward, life-giving energy of that unruly sun. ❋ Rus Bowden (2009)

Sondheim's lyrics are by far his earthiest and most colloquial. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Taurus, earthiest of all, comes during spring in the northern hemisphere, when earth's explosion of flowers proclaims our planet's fertility and beauty. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And, considering that the hour – glass they turned from year to year was filled with the earthiest and coarsest sand, the Bleeding Heart Yarders had reason enough for objecting to be despoiled of the one little golden grain of poetry that sparkled in it. ❋ Unknown (2007)

For, in default of this, it is the ink that serves for the excretion of the earthiest matter. ❋ Unknown (2002)

There will be many “earth-related” items around given that they are the earthiest of earth signs, such as pottery, plants and landscapes. ❋ Charlene Lichtenstein (2000)

She had worked among soldiers who saw no reason to temper their language around her, and she had tended gryphons, who were the earthiest creatures he knew. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1995)

In fact, it appears to be precisely the most self-sufficing that bear least hardly, least painfully, on other things, while the heaviest and earthiest bodies — deficient, falling, unable to bear themselves upward — these, by the very down-thrust due to their feebleness, offer the resistance which belongs to the falling habit and to the lack of buoyancy. ❋ Plotinus (1952)

But I stayed where I was, the earthiest worldling in a dress of unworldliness. ❋ Anna Balmer Myers (N/A)

So the little web of motives and cross-motives, for the most part of the commonest earthiest hue, yet shot every here and there by a thread or two of heavenlier stuff, went spinning itself the winter through round the unknowing children. ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)

To pacify him, Nevil related how he had heard that since the Venetian rising of '49, Venetian ladies had issued from the ordeal of fire and famine of another pattern than the famous old Benzon one, in which they touched earthiest earth. ❋ George Meredith (1868)

Venetian ladies had issued from the ordeal of fire and famine of another pattern than the famous old Benzon one, in which they touched earthiest earth. ❋ George Meredith (1868)

Venetian rising of '49, Venetian ladies had issued from the ordeal of fire and famine of another pattern than the famous old Benzon one, in which they touched earthiest earth. ❋ George Meredith (1868)