1 I know that ghosts have wandered on earth.
2 And he had earthly consolation and affections also.
3 I wish I could annihilate it from the face of the earth.
4 Every Linton on the face of the earth might melt into nothing before I could consent to forsake Heathcliff.
5 On that bleak hill-top the earth was hard with a black frost, and the air made me shiver through every limb.
6 I explained that they were bare masses of stone, with hardly enough earth in their clefts to nourish a stunted tree.
7 He began to pace the room, muttering terrible things to himself, till I was inclined to believe, as he said Joseph did, that conscience had turned his heart to an earthly hell.
8 I knew no living thing in flesh and blood was by; but, as certainly as you perceive the approach to some substantial body in the dark, though it cannot be discerned, so certainly I felt that Cathy was there: not under me, but on the earth.
9 I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
10 I gazed long at the weather-worn block; and, stooping down, perceived a hole near the bottom still full of snail-shells and pebbles, which we were fond of storing there with more perishable things; and, as fresh as reality, it appeared that I beheld my early playmate seated on the withered turf: his dark, square head bent forward, and his little hand scooping out the earth with a piece of slate.