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

It assumes a subliminal self, with unknown faculties, originated in some unknown way, and not merely by contact with the needs which the terrene organism has had to meet.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

Questa scolpita in oro, amica fede, Che santo amor nel tuo bel dito pose, O prima a me delle terrene cose!

From The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)

FLOW, Waters! spread afar my zones of green,      So I with salt baptismal waves may haunt And bathe the new-sprung continents terrene,      Hearing my freshets and young rivers chaunt.

From The Masque of the Elements by Scheffauer, Herman George

But he had never been instructed for five minutes in the geography of his native county, of which he knew neither the boundaries nor the rivers nor the terrene characteristics.

From Clayhanger by Bennett, Arnold