Adjective, : fleshly pleasures. ,the fleshly poetry of the 17th century. From Dictionary.com.
All the charity we possess beyond this may be properly called fleshly charity '-- he lifted his eyes to see two of his. From Wordnik.com. [Lancashire Idylls (1898)] Reference
"I don't know if you can call the fleshly lusts divine," replied the thinner, looking into the eyes of the writer of the songs. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Pharisees] Reference
Proclaim a musky scent in fleshly tones. From Wordnik.com. [Two Poems] Reference
Frollo sings it late in the movie and it expresses the inner battle he is having with his "fleshly" desires for Esmeralda. From Wordnik.com. [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference
His spiritual gifts, "are ye now being made perfect" (so the Greek), that is, are ye seeking to be made perfect with "fleshly" ordinances of the law?. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
In addition, patients allocated to non-surgica treatment, such as fleshly therapy and ultrasound, also reinforced over instance -- meet not as such as those who underwe surgery. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
We are hedged in everywhere by the fleshly screen. From Wordnik.com. [Browning's Heroines] Reference
When his soul wanders forth far from its fleshly home. From Wordnik.com. [Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race] Reference
These fleshly inscriptions are an incarnate evidence of the. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873] Reference
He spins his vision not for your immortal soul but for your fleshly greed. From Wordnik.com. [Dark Side of American Optimism] Reference
The brunette poet, on the other hand, is perforce a member of the fleshly school. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
The morally great in all ages have become strong by overcoming their fleshly natures. From Wordnik.com. [The Ascent of the Soul] Reference
Clark was the mountain peak which the party had left for its fleshly sojourn in Egypt. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
All that information in one hug, transferred osmosis-like through her fleshly tentacle. From Wordnik.com. [Free Time] Reference
Doubtless a less frequent use of fleshly food would be greatly to our advantage as a people. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866] Reference
Which of us that is not more akin to Burns in his fleshly frailties then in his diviner spirit?. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference
They were fleshly sinners, insults to himself, corrupters of youth, gorged drones, law-breakers. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
No one can become a member by purchase, fleshly birth, or the obedience of parents or other persons. From Wordnik.com. [To Infidelity and Back] Reference
And, laying aside thy fleshly reason, seek of the Lord to teach thee what that is; and He will do it. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
I, who had denied to myself all woman's weakness, all mortal love, all fleshly vanities -- failed!. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of a Turkish Bath] Reference
No fleshly limb is strained, no conscious life is burdened, by any of the labor of our complex society. From Wordnik.com. [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference
It makes me contrast their present gross substance of fleshly life with the nothingness speedily to come. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866] Reference
This very day I have permitted worldly thoughts to disturb and harrass me, and to shake the fleshly tabernacle. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843] Reference
The intellectual sense seems to quicken, as if through transparent fleshly gauze that expectant soul lay open to. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
No one should believe, after all the growth of the ages, that the soul was made to be imprisoned in a fleshly prison. From Wordnik.com. [The Ascent of the Soul] Reference
I said that the additional marriages, under such conditions, could only be contracted for the gratification of fleshly desires. From Wordnik.com. [India and the Indians] Reference
For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it to them also to serve them in fleshly things. From Wordnik.com. [The World English Bible (WEB): Romans] Reference
To this end you are charged to "abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;" to "mortify your members, which are earthly;" to. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
It will be seen that Mr. Becke is somewhat of the fleshly school, but with a pathos and power not given to the ordinary professors of that school. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Nature Won By Kindness] Reference
I was an apt pupil, so parting those vermilion lips, found a little fleshly button just above the entrance I could see lower down; my fingers touched it. From Wordnik.com. [Forbidden Fruit Luscious and exciting story and More forbidden fruit or Master Percy's progress in and beyond the domestic circle] Reference
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