terrestrial sphere
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Every day our terrestrial sphere revolves into and out of the sun’s light, irrespective of what we on its surface codify into laws and regardless of what numbers we display on our clocks.
From Scientific American • Mar. 17, 2022
The weary old terrestrial sphere was either too hot or too cold and capricious in doling out its moisture.
From Time Magazine Archive
He quitted this terrestrial sphere, In doghood's prime—his twice-third year.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 62, January 1, 1872 by Various
Human creatures who had left the terrestrial sphere, and returned after this strange voyage into celestial space, could not fail to be received as the prophet Elias would be if he came back to earth.
From From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon by Verne, Jules
In one corner was a large terrestrial sphere: near it was an astrolabe, and near that a heap of disused glass vessels.
From Auriol or, The Elixir of Life by Ainsworth, W. Harrison
