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  • She is as soft and inviting a mother-earth as the prostitutes are sharp-edged and skinny.

    Buzzine » Tushy Tarts, Smelly Farts… 2009

  • Hellas and the hapless Phrygians he brought a war, that he might lighten mother-earth of her myriad hosts of men, and to the bravest of the sons of

    Helen 2008

  • Hellas and the hapless Phrygians he brought a war, that he might lighten mother-earth of her myriad hosts of men, and to the bravest of the sons of

    Helen 2008

  • Now we'll get a little bit more mother-earth oriented.

    CNN Transcript Apr 17, 2005 2005

  • Chelkash felt a rush of the softening, caressing air of home, bringing back to him the tender words of his mother and the weighty utterances of the venerable peasant, his father; many a forgotten sound and many a lush smell of mother-earth, freshly thawing, freshly ploughed, and freshly covered with the emerald silk of the corn.

    Creatures That Once Were Men, and other stories 2003

  • We are still from the same mother-earth, from Gondwana.

    Address at the University of The State of Bahia Brazil 2000

  • We are still from the same mother-earth, from Gondwana.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • When we tire of it, when we weary of our fellow-man and turn the blasé cheek on the fresh pillow of mother-earth, how quickly is the pillow deserted once the mental frame is rested or renewed!

    In and out of Three Normady Inns Anna Bowman Dodd

  • Must all succeeding generations pay for coal, copper, zinc, lead, nickel, marble, oil, gas, and various other products of our mother-earth just what those who control the chief deposits choose to ask?

    Monopolies and the People Charles Whiting Baker

  • Their mother's precaution, however, was rendered unavailing by pieces of rock being hurled upon them, which threw them down, and their feet being no longer placed firmly on their mother-earth, they were overcome, and this tedious war (which was called the Gigantomachia) at last came to an end.

    Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome E.M. Berens

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