Voorbeelden uit tekstcorpus voor earthly possessions
1. Tens of thousands have lost homes and loved ones and all their earthly possessions.
2. Bronwynne told me that the only earthly possessions she has left were the clothes on her back.
3. Shell–shocked mothers are gathering up what remains of their earthly possessions, in most cases a few enamel pots and a mattress.
4. The super–rich might make me feel nauseous; their response, if they choose to make one, will be "you‘re just jealous", plus "I don‘t see you sharing your earthly possessions with the poor". On the first count they are wrong, but I have no real way of proving it; on the second they are dead right.
5. "Thousands have lost their homes, they‘ve lost their loved ones, they‘ve lost all their earthly possessions." Reuters Rodney McGeoy gives Helen Johnson her insulin shot at their temporary camp in a partially destroyed Veterans of Foreign Wars post in Clermont Harbour, Mississippi.