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 Robert Louis Stevenson
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 Dudley Wright
If the tendency to torpor of some viscus is considerable, this will be increased at the time, when the terrene gravitation is greatest, as explained in the introduction to Class IV.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
The specialised forms of terrene perception were not real novelties in the universe, but imperfect adaptations of protoplasm to the manifestation of the indwelling general perceptive power.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
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