In those stories, the prince almost always turned out to be a god who sought earthly pleasure from his love only until he tired of her.

That equation of earthly and spiritual pleasure runs from romantic poetry to soul music.

Holy men are supposed to be above earthly pleasures, but your father enjoyed his midnight wrestling.

It is an oasis of earthly pleasure for about three hundred well-connected families.

His avarice and fondness of earthly pleasures soon placed him in opposition with the church.

It had, we agreed, been conveniently chock-full of earthly and spiritual pleasures.

To treat his melancholy, he is given a year to experience the earthly pleasures of the four seasons.

But still, it is the night that has given this city its reputation as the Big Easy, a place to lose yourself in earthly pleasures.

But doing the will of God means casting off all earthly pleasures and ambitions, and living only for others.

They would not barter them for any earthly pleasure.