terra
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The kitchen floor suddenly terra incognita, Jack looked to me across the table for help.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 26, 2026
But the fear was that it would happen in space, when you’re 180 miles from terra firma and the nearest fire station.
From Salon ● Feb. 9, 2025
They came in a small range of colors: sand, terra cotta, chestnut.
From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2024
That would only have been possible on terra firma, they say.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 30, 2024
To begin with, slash-and-burn simply does not produce enough charcoal to make terra preta—the carbon mostly goes into the air in the form of carbon dioxide.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
He began again, starting with Juno’s unforgiving cruelty, sweeping into the cave of winds, and finally breaking into the storm: ruunt et terras turbine perflant.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
Being in town the house had no garden; but the terras with its big jars of plants seemed a favourite place for taking the air.
From The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza by Mary Stuart Boyd
The veranda, or terras, bade fair to become a perpetual joy to us.
From The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza by Mary Stuart Boyd
“I have preserved it,” he said, “for I am pleased with the gracious terras in which it is couched.”
From The Trapper's Son by William Henry Giles Kingston
The -que should of course be taken with terras.
From The Last Poems of Ovid by Mark Bear Akrigg
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