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

FLOW, Waters! spread afar my zones of green,      So I with salt baptismal waves may haunt And bathe the new-sprung continents terrene,      Hearing my freshets and young rivers chaunt.

From The Masque of the Elements by Scheffauer, Herman George

Apollion: I have, Lord Belzebub, The low terrene observed with keenest eye.

From Vondel's Lucifer by Vondel, Joost van den

Sometimes these angels are vested in terrene habiliments, as in the annexed cut, from a drawing of a sculptured stone among the ruins of Robertsbridge Abbey.

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony

It was quite wonderful to hear such a stream of learning, and to see, at the same time, the vigour of these terrene philosophers in polishing their specimens upon a whetstone, laid upon their knees.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 by Various