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

And the terrestrial pole does not attract as if the terrene force were implanted only in the pole, for the magnetick force exists in the whole, although it predominates and excels at the pole.

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William

The earliest terrene object which we behold is a light-house some sixty miles out at sea, whose occupants, we hope, are not resolutely bent upon social enjoyment.

From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Howe, Julia Ward

The amœba is the connecting link which connects all terrene life with primitive bathybian protoplasm, and is, strictly speaking, a true hermaphrodite.

From Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire by Weir, James