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terrene

[te-reen, tuh-, ter-een] / tɛˈrin, tə-, ˈtɛr in /


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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

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 Arnold Bennett

We must now leave the marine department for awhile, in order to attend to exclusively terrene concerns.

From An Old Sailor's Yarns by N. (Nathaniel) Ames

God the First cause!—in this terrene abode Young Nature lisps, she is the child of God.

From The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes by Erasmus Darwin

What should he do, to be more worthy? by what devotion, call down the notice of these eyes to so terrene a being as himself?

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson


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