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
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He quaffs the wine of life, and quaffs his fill, And sees Creation through its mask terrene.
From Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems by Mackay, Eric
The object of the Lesser Mysteries was to signify occultly the condition of the impure soul invested with a terrene body and merged in a material nature.
From The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites by Wright, Dudley
When the contraterrene lead atoms met the terrene lead atoms, mutual annihilation resulted, giving us pure energy.
From Islands of Space by Campbell, John Wood
What should he do, to be more worthy? by what devotion, call down the notice of these eyes to so terrene a being as himself?
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis