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
If the tendency to torpor of some viscus is considerable, this will be increased at the time, when the terrene gravitation is greatest, as explained in the introduction to Class IV.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
The specialised forms of terrene perception were not real novelties in the universe, but imperfect adaptations of protoplasm to the manifestation of the indwelling general perceptive power.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
We still in this terrene abode Forlorn must tread the difficult road, And all meek thanks and all belief Hardly suffice to rampart grief.
From The Three Hills And other Poems by Baudelaire, Charles
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
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