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

Wherever men are, they must have a solid platform on which to stand; they must have a stable terrene whereon their food may grow, and this the Moon could supply.

From Are the Planets Inhabited? by Maunder, E. Walter (Edward Walter)

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)

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

For it denies that all human faculties must have been evoked by terrene experience.

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