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
The specialised forms of terrene perception were not real novelties in the universe, but imperfect adaptations of protoplasm to the manifestation of the indwelling general perceptive power.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
Sometimes these angels are vested in terrene habiliments, as in the annexed cut, from a drawing of a sculptured stone among the ruins of Robertsbridge Abbey.
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower
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
We must now leave the marine department for awhile, in order to attend to exclusively terrene concerns.
From An Old Sailor's Yarns by N. (Nathaniel) Ames
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