terra
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But still awaiting a connection to the country’s main high-speed train corridor, it can feel like terra incognita, even to Italians.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
But the fear was that it would happen in space, when you’re 180 miles from terra firma and the nearest fire station.
From Salon ● Feb. 9, 2025
They came in a small range of colors: sand, terra cotta, chestnut.
From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2024
That would only have been possible on terra firma, they say.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 30, 2024
The earth floats in space; one quarter of the sphere is habitable, but half of it is covered by water, and the remaining quarter represents terra or aqua incognita.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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
The version of Pipino, "ad Lucis terras finitimas deferunt," points to the true reading;—Carte is an error for Clarté.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Henry Yule
At the termination of the rainy season in March, it was generally about two-thirds full, supplied from the flat roof or terras during the rainy season.
From An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa by James Grey Jackson
Ultima coelicolum terras Astrea reliquit; this means, that Peace fled into a far distant country.
From The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) by Various
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
