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1494 Lydgate's Falle of Princis (Pynson) iii. sig. lv^v/2 To their noblesse..No thinge in erth was more expedient.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms lxxii[i]. 25 There is nothinge vpon earth, that I desyre in comparison of the.

1629 J. Mede Let. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. III. 283 In Queen Elizabeth's days, when nothing on earth was surer than Chequer pay.

1680 Don Tomazo 140 Being truly sensible of your great Affections for me, assure your self, nothing on Earth shall labour more to retaliate those your Favours.

1759 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) II. 496 Nothing on the postdiluvian earth could be more pleasant than the road from hence.

1793 T. Jefferson Let. 9 June in Papers (1995) XXVI. 241 Morris made one of his warm declarations that..nothing on earth should ever engage him to serve again in any public capacity.

1818 M. W. Shelley Frankenstein III. v. 100 Nothing on earth will have the power to interrupt my tranquillity.

1953 B. Boland Return in Plays of Year IX. 341 There is nothing on this earth so dangerous as putting out a finger to touch another human being's life.

1994 A. Theroux Primary Colors 103 Nothing on earth has eyes as dangerously memorable, as soft and unsleeping a steel yellow, as the Alaskan Grey Wolf.