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

God the First cause!—in this terrene abode Young Nature lisps, she is the child of God.

From The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes by Darwin, Erasmus

The object of the Lesser Mysteries was to signify occultly the condition of the impure soul invested with a terrene body and merged in a material nature.

From The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites by Wright, Dudley

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

He quaffs the wine of life, and quaffs his fill, And sees Creation through its mask terrene.

From Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems by Mackay, Eric