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

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)

For their first day's breakfast on the new regimen, the old woman treated them with a terrene of oatmeal gruel.

From The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers by Weems, Mason Locke

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

What should he do, to be more worthy? by what devotion, call down the notice of these eyes to so terrene a being as himself?

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis