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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

For it denies that all human faculties must have been evoked by terrene experience.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers

The amœba is the connecting link which connects all terrene life with primitive bathybian protoplasm, and is, strictly speaking, a true hermaphrodite.

From Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire by James Weir

We still in this terrene abode Forlorn must tread the difficult road, And all meek thanks and all belief Hardly suffice to rampart grief.

From The Three Hills And other Poems by Charles Baudelaire

But first the seeds terrene, since ponderous most And most perplext, in close embraces clung, And towards the centre conglobating sunk.

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker




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