terra
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The kitchen floor suddenly terra incognita, Jack looked to me across the table for help.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 26, 2026
The fact that scientists are finding intact biochar in the Amazon’s ancient terra preta suggests that it’s happening.
From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2025
They came in a small range of colors: sand, terra cotta, chestnut.
From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2024
This is really quite intriguing as we do not know much about these parts of the genome; our work shows there is benefit in exploring further this genetic terra incognita.'
From Science Daily ● Mar. 27, 2024
Despite the charcoal, terra preta is not a by-product of slash-and- burn agriculture.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
He began again, starting with Juno’s unforgiving cruelty, sweeping into the cave of winds, and finally breaking into the storm: ruunt et terras turbine perflant.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
Referring to the results of the great discovery, Lope beautifully says that it gave— Al Rey infinitas terras Y á Dios infinitas almas.
From Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia being a concordance of choice tributes to the great Genoese, his grand discovery, and his greatness of mind and purpose by J. M. (John Marcus) Dickey
Many times a day have I repeated with tears the verse: Heu, fuge crudeles terras, fuge littus avarum!
From Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots by John Addington Symonds
Being in town the house had no garden; but the terras with its big jars of plants seemed a favourite place for taking the air.
From The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza by Mary Stuart Boyd
It was the voice of warning which he ever heard repeating to him the words— Heu, fuge crudeles terras, fuge litus avarum687.
From The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by W. Y. Sellar
