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

Apollion: I have, Lord Belzebub, The low terrene observed with keenest eye.

From Vondel's Lucifer by Vondel, Joost van den

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)

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 amœba is the connecting link which connects all terrene life with primitive bathybian protoplasm, and is, strictly speaking, a true hermaphrodite.

From Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire by Weir, James