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

Whence, from the pores terrene, with foremost haste Rushed the bright ether, towering high, and swift Streams of fire attracting as it flowed.

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)

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

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

For it denies that all human faculties must have been evoked by terrene experience.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)