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

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)

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)

But first the seeds terrene, since ponderous most And most perplext, in close embraces clung, And towards the centre conglobating sunk.

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)

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