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

And is it not noteworthy that our life terrene at certain epochs seems to be made up wholly of these?

From The Book of Khalid by Rihani, Ameen Fares

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)

But he had never been instructed for five minutes in the geography of his native county, of which he knew neither the boundaries nor the rivers nor the terrene characteristics.

From Clayhanger by Bennett, Arnold

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