As soon as daylight had begun to appear, she had entered the church to say her prayers, and the grand old aisle had appeared immense and shadowy to her--quite different from all the Parisian churches--with its rough pillars worn at the base by the chafing of centuries, and its damp, earthy smell of age and saltpetre.英文原著 · 《AN ICELAND FISHERMAN》
For a minute he literally hated this earthy, cynical world to which one belonged, willy-nilly. The gate where he was leaning grew grey, a sort of shimmer passed be fore him and spread into the bluish darkness. The moon! He could just see it over the bank be hind; red, nearly round-a strange moon! And turning away, he went up the lane which smelled of the night and cowdung and young leaves. In the straw-yard he could see the dark shapes of cattle, broken by the pale sickles of their horns, like so many thin moons, fallen ends-up. He unlatched the farm gate stealthily. All was dark in the house.英文原著 · 《Five Tales》
Bonnell, this is my cousin Jewel Evringham. She is landscape gardening just now, and may not feel like giving you her hand."
"I can wash it," said Jewel, dipping the earthy member in the brook, wiping it on the grass, and placing it in the large one that was offered her. "How did you ever find us? I thought you'd gone back to New York. I had no idea of seeing you," said Eloise in a breath. "Didn't your mother tell you? I have a week off."
The girl's bright face sobered. "Poor mother!英文原著 · 《Jewel》
Are yer sure yer niver got a few beers in, an' started skitin' about it?" He looked hard at Ada. "Niver a word about it 'ave I breathed to a livin' soul till this day," wailed Mrs Yabsley, mopping her eyes with her apron. "Rye buck!" said Jonah. "'Ere goes! I'll find it, if the blimey house falls down. Gimme that axe."
The floor-boards cracked and split as he ripped them up. Small beetles and insects, surprised by the light, scrambled with desperate haste into safety. A faint, earthy smell rose from the foundations.英文原著 · 《Jonah》
So then we doe anticipate Our after-fate, And are alive i'th' skies, If thus our lips and eyes Can speake like spirits unconfin'd In Heav'n, their earthy bodies left behind.英文原著 · 《Lucasta》
"Let it be what it is; it is a power that has to be reckoned upon so long as we remain creatures of the earth, earthy."英文原著 · 《Phyllis of Philistia》
Yet you love to deploy the earthy, the homespun, the language of the dirt road and the barefoot walk to school.美剧 · 《Billions》
Debs, it's time to face the fact that you are a sweet, earthy hunk of Irish sod, meant to be shared by flesh farmers of all persuasions.美剧 · 《Shameless》
You may choose to disguise it in all these earthy surroundings, but... you are the one percent.美剧 · 《The Good Wife》