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

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

It was quite wonderful to hear such a stream of learning, and to see, at the same time, the vigour of these terrene philosophers in polishing their specimens upon a whetstone, laid upon their knees.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 by Various

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)

By perfecting a method for changing matter from terrene to contraterrene, we have managed to bridge the million light years of space separating our worlds as we saw fit.

From Twelve Times Zero by Browne, Howard