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How To Use fleshly In A Sentence

• Only when he had drained the cup of every fleshly pleasure could he accept those deeper thirsts which drove him on.
• Seeing the snake cast its old slough and glide forth renewed, he conceives, so in death man but sheds his fleshly exuvia, while the spirit emerges, regenerate. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
• Out of all the gods, only the Jester had children because he was the only one concerned with the more… fleshly pleasures.
• It was the falseness of it that Franny and I noticed: the mannequin's chipped face, the obvious wig, and the stiff, unfleshly bust of the dummy — the fake bosom, the still chest, the rigid waist. The Hotel New Hampshire
• To preach a sweet Christ to the fleshly world is the most potent poison that has been given to the dear sheep of Christ from the very beginning.
• 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
• That oughtest thou to know and no man better, said the good man, for thou knewest the daughter of king Pelles fleshly, and on her thou begattest Galahad, and that was he that at the feast of Pentecost sat in the Siege Perilous; and therefore make thou it known openly that he is one of thy begetting on King Pelles’ daughter, for that will be your worship and honour, and to all thy kindred. Chapter IV. The Fifteenth Book. How the Hermit Expounded to Sir Launcelot His Vision, and Told Him That Sir Galahad Was His Son
• Introduce it to an enemy position and they'd find themselves overcome with fleshly desires.
• As she entered the drawing-room she came from out of doors, a slender, unfleshly figure, all intellect and idea. The Dust Flower
• There are no disembodied brains, divorced from human emotions, hormonal urges and fleshly thoughts, engaged solely in disinterested play of the mind on the eternal verities.