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

By perfecting a method for changing matter from terrene to contraterrene, we have managed to bridge the million light years of space separating our worlds as we saw fit.

From Twelve Times Zero by Browne, Howard

Should he ever be a suitor Unto sweeter eyes than mine, Sunshine gild them, Angels shield them, Whatsoever eyes terrene Be the sweetest HIS have seen!

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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)

Form unknown in things terrene; Even monsters pliocene Were not so ill-shaped, I ween.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 14, 1893 by Various