No earthly city ever flung its towers so splendidly high and soaring.

He recounts a local myth regarding the pagodas, that the god Indra became jealous of this earthly city and sank it during a great storm, leaving only the Shore Temple above water.

Since it is difficult to think of heaven merely as a placeless state of being, earthly cities are often conscripted to provide an image of it.

New citizens are begotten to the earthly city by nature vitiated by sin but to the heavenly city by grace freeing nature from sin.

Amichai's recurring subjects are love, war and its aftermath, and all manner of goings-on in the earthly city of Jerusalem.

And thus did the knights of the Temple vanish with their secret, in whose shadow breathed a lofty yearning for the earthly city.

Clapham, like every other earthly city, is built upon a volcano.

Although Chavannes graduated with a degree as a civil engineer, he knew his real mission in life lay not in building an earthly city, but in furthering a Heavenly Kingdom.

It resembled some earthly cities of previous centuries.

A few tall, slender towers rose above the mass, and these were joined together by winding groundcar ramps: definitely not a feature of earthly cities.