terra
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Despite the many Aboriginal communities, the British deemed the place terra nullius—no one’s land—and established a penal colony, bringing diseases that drastically reduced the indigenous population.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026
But the fear was that it would happen in space, when you’re 180 miles from terra firma and the nearest fire station.
From Salon ● Feb. 9, 2025
They came in a small range of colors: sand, terra cotta, chestnut.
From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2024
That would only have been possible on terra firma, they say.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 30, 2024
If the University of Chicago was terra incognita for Jesse, it was also unsettling for me, not a world I was at ease in.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
He began again, starting with Juno’s unforgiving cruelty, sweeping into the cave of winds, and finally breaking into the storm: ruunt et terras turbine perflant.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
They excel in the art of making terras.
From An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa by James Grey Jackson
"Postera Phoeba lustrabat lampade terras," continued Brother Emmanuel, inexorably running his horny finger-nail beneath the line, "humentemque Aurora polo dimoverat umbram—" the lesson dragged along.
From Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle
Science says that every thing is a lie, and would reduce every thing to figures and lines, not only maria ac terras, where we are, but coelumque profundum, where God is.
From Dona Perfecta by Mary J. (Mary Jane) Serrano
The veranda, or terras, bade fair to become a perpetual joy to us.
From The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza by Mary Stuart Boyd
