terrene

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Blue-eyed Mrs. Slocum, president of Boat Transit Co., is no terrene "Tugboat Annie," does not drive a truck herself.

From Time Magazine Archive

We still in this terrene abode Forlorn must tread the difficult road, And all meek thanks and all belief Hardly suffice to rampart grief.

From The Three Hills And other Poems by Baudelaire, Charles

But the visitor could not convey celestial realities to terrene minds.

From Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war by Lind-af-Hageby, L. (Lizzy)

It is a picture of the coronation of George V. by one Fernand Piret, a French aviator—so the story goes—who never before dabbled in terrene arts.

From Pot-Boilers by Bell, Clive

Even so, one may say, the influence of the ultra-intellectual or supernormal faculties upon our welfare as terrene organisms is less marked in common life than the influence of the organic or subnormal faculties.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)