terra
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The search for terra incognita can explain the explosion, in the 20th century, of science fiction and magical realism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025
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
Among them are the owners of the papaya orchard I visited, who have happily grown crops on their terra preta for two decades.
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
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
Mr. Carlile was in prison nearly seven years, and many of his shopmen were imprisoned for various terras.
From The Trial of Henry Hetherington by Henry Hetherington
A few steps up from the zaguan was a cosy parlour from which a stair led down to the terras.
From The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza by Mary Stuart Boyd
She is emphatically addressed as a Power, present through all the world,— Caeli subter labentia signa Quae mare navigerum quae terras frugiferentis Concelebras.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by W. Y. Sellar
