"city" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- 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.
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