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back to earth

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back to earth

returning to a more usual condition. I was excited to get the job, but I came back to earth pretty quickly when I realized that I would have to move.

Usage notes: used with verbs like bring, come, and drop

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He lifts the beautiful drooping head--their lips meet in their first kiss--they are both in heaven: it is Clara who brings them back to earth again with a start--it is Clara who says, "Oh The Frozen Deep by Collins, Wilkie View in context Deflected by the blow, Michael dropped back to earth and ran on with his longest leaps to catch up and make his next spring. Michael, Brother of Jerry by London, Jack View in context But, if the spirits of the Dead ever come back to earth, to visit spots hallowed by the love--the love beyond the grave--of those whom they knew in life, I believe that the shade of Agnes sometimes hovers round that solemn nook. Oliver Twist Or The Parish Boy's Progress by Dickens, Charles View in context More results

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He lifts the beautiful drooping head--their lips meet in their first kiss--they are both in heaven: it is Clara who brings them back to earth again with a start--it is Clara who says, "Oh

The Frozen Deep by Collins, Wilkie View in context

Deflected by the blow, Michael dropped back to earth and ran on with his longest leaps to catch up and make his next spring.

Michael, Brother of Jerry by London, Jack View in context

But, if the spirits of the Dead ever come back to earth, to visit spots hallowed by the love--the love beyond the grave--of those whom they knew in life, I believe that the shade of Agnes sometimes hovers round that solemn nook.

Oliver Twist Or The Parish Boy's Progress by Dickens, Charles View in context

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