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

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

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

Form unknown in things terrene; Even monsters pliocene Were not so ill-shaped, I ween.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 14, 1893 by Various

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)

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 Weems, Mason Locke