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  • John's discussions of Kosmos and Phos, the world and light, are Greek notions that interplay with Creation, God, Soul, Reason, Fleshly Body, and so forth.

    When Did The Word Become Flesh? James F. McGrath 2009

  • Each morning Rossetti spent in his studio, sometimes sketching or painting Jane, sometimes drafting his response to “The Fleshly School of Poetry.”

    The Wayward Muse Elizabeth Hickey 2007

  • Each morning Rossetti spent in his studio, sometimes sketching or painting Jane, sometimes drafting his response to “The Fleshly School of Poetry.”

    The Wayward Muse Elizabeth Hickey 2007

  • Priming audiences with unseen pitches for Coke and popcorn was one thing, Mr. Talese determined, but the real test was whether rather less obvious messages would work, messages such as "Vote for Lionel Smudge," "Abjure Fleshly Lusts," and "Drink More Strega."

    Scaring Up a Cocktail 2007

  • Each morning Rossetti spent in his studio, sometimes sketching or painting Jane, sometimes drafting his response to “The Fleshly School of Poetry.”

    The Wayward Muse Elizabeth Hickey 2007

  • "Shall we go, and see if our Fleshly Sister can properly call us too?" asked a tinkling voice that was as much in Marina's head as in her ears.

    The Gates Of Sleep Lackey, Mercedes 2002

  • Fleshly confidence and false worship were the two great sins that had now ruined the body of the people.

    Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ 1616-1683 1965

  • Why, Madam, says he, I want a certain sort of a Fleshly Convenience, and I am inform'd you can help me to one.

    The London-Bawd: With Her Character and Life Discovering the Various and Subtle Intrigues of Lewd Women Anonymous

  • But his great abstinence of all was from Sleep, and strange it was that one of such a Fleshly and sanguine composition, could overwatch so many heavy propense inclinations to Rest.

    Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various

  • Their lust, their lechery, is a cold dead Saurian thing, a thing with the gravity of a slow-worm -- and when this great laughing and generous sage comes forth into the sunshine with his noble companies of amorous and happy people, these Shadow-lovers, these Leut-lovers, these Fleshly

    Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions John Cowper Powys 1917

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