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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

It is a picture of the coronation of George V. by one Fernand Piret, a French aviator—so the story goes—who never before dabbled in terrene arts.

From Pot-Boilers by Clive Bell

Even so, one may say, the influence of the ultra-intellectual or supernormal faculties upon our welfare as terrene organisms is less marked in common life than the influence of the organic or subnormal faculties.

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

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 Ameen Fares Rihani

FLOW, Waters! spread afar my zones of green,      So I with salt baptismal waves may haunt And bathe the new-sprung continents terrene,      Hearing my freshets and young rivers chaunt.

From The Masque of the Elements by Herman George Scheffauer




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