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 must now leave the marine department for awhile, in order to attend to exclusively terrene concerns.

From An Old Sailor's Yarns by Ames, N. (Nathaniel)

For not without the vastest overthrow of the terrene mass can these natural boundaries be changed, as it is easy to gather from magnetick demonstrations.

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William

If the tendency to torpor of some viscus is considerable, this will be increased at the time, when the terrene gravitation is greatest, as explained in the introduction to Class IV.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

By perfecting a method for changing matter from terrene to contraterrene, we have managed to bridge the million light years of space separating our worlds as we saw fit.

From Twelve Times Zero by Browne, Howard