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
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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
It assumes a subliminal self, with unknown faculties, originated in some unknown way, and not merely by contact with the needs which the terrene organism has had to meet.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
Anselme answered, that this was to be referred to the iudgement of a Councell, whether it bee a breach of allegiance to a terrene Prince, if a man appeale to the Vicar of Christ.
From The Lives of the III Normans, Kings of England: William the First, William the Second, Henrie the First by Hayward, John
God the First cause!—in this terrene abode Young Nature lisps, she is the child of God.
From The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes by Darwin, Erasmus