terrene

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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

Anselme answered, that this was to be referred to the iudgement of a Councell, whether it bee a breach of allegiance to a terrene Prince, if a man appeale to the Vicar of Christ.

From The Lives of the III Normans, Kings of England: William the First, William the Second, Henrie the First by Hayward, John

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 Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

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 Darwin, Erasmus

He quaffs the wine of life, and quaffs his fill, And sees Creation through its mask terrene.

From Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems by Mackay, Eric