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
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The earliest terrene object which we behold is a light-house some sixty miles out at sea, whose occupants, we hope, are not resolutely bent upon social enjoyment.
From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Julia Ward Howe
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
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 John Hayward
For their first day's breakfast on the new regimen, the old woman treated them with a terrene of oatmeal gruel.
From The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers by Mason Locke Weems