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

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

It is a picture of the coronation of George V. by one Fernand Piret, a French aviator—so the story goes—who never before dabbled in terrene arts.

From Pot-Boilers by Bell, Clive

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