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 was quite wonderful to hear such a stream of learning, and to see, at the same time, the vigour of these terrene philosophers in polishing their specimens upon a whetstone, laid upon their knees.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 by Various
It is a picture of the coronation of George V. by one Fernand Piret, a French aviator—so the story goes—who never before dabbled in terrene arts.
From Pot-Boilers by Bell, Clive
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 Lower, Mark Antony
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
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