This is plainly the end of this miserable terraqueous globe!. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
In the middle of this Ptolemaic cosmos the spherical earth, or rather terraqueous sphere, rested immovable. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Thus, then, two new oceans are requisite to cover the terraqueous globe merely to the depth of five hundred feet. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
If the name attaches only to one pleasure always permanent, or a continued although varied range of delicious enjoyment, then happiness belongs not to this terraqueous globe. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
"Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon.". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-01-01] Reference
These sloughs wind through an immense timbered swamp, and constitute a terraqueous labyrinth of such intricacy, that unskilful and inexperienced navigators have been lost for many days in it, and some. From Wordnik.com. [What I Saw in California] Reference
Meanwhile, what portion of this inconsiderable terraqueous. From Wordnik.com. [Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History] Reference
View the terraqueous globe, and he has the command of that too. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference
Hadrian, I meted-out much of the terraqueous Globe with a pair of. From Wordnik.com. [Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History] Reference
I see O year in you the vast terraqueous globe given and giving all. From Wordnik.com. [Leaves of Grass] Reference
He has wandered over this terraqueous Planet; seeking, one may say, the. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
He was Tiberius Cæsar, king of kings, and lord of the terraqueous globe. From Wordnik.com. [The Caesars] Reference
It is by his power that exhalations are drawn up from the terraqueous globe. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)] Reference
And defying the dangers and hardships Of a voyage round the terraqueous globe. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the political and private life of James Caulfield, Earl of Charlemont] Reference
The methods afed to de - fcribe lines on Dr. Halley's chart of che terraqueous globe. From Wordnik.com. [The Monthly Review] Reference
In the person of Caligula, Ennui sat supreme upon the throne of the terraqueous globe. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III] Reference
Wide, o'er The globe terraqueous, let Britannia pour The fruits of plenty from her copious horn. From Wordnik.com. [The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical] Reference
Africa, as far as they were known at that time, formed but a fmall por - tion of the terraqueous globe. From Wordnik.com. [An historical, geographical, commercial, and philosophical view of the American United States] Reference
Amid such terraqueous conditions it was natural enough that the children should develop a passion for the sea. From Wordnik.com. [William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist] Reference
She was constructed to revolve like the terraqueous globe; some part or other of her was always out of sight or in shadow. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragic Muse] Reference
For the notion of a huge mechanism like the celestial sphere, spinning round the terraqueous globe as its pivot looked unreasonable. From Wordnik.com. [Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History] Reference
In this particular case, as in some others, we must allow that our worthy ancestors and forerunners upon this terraqueous planet were enormous blockheads. From Wordnik.com. [Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1] Reference
But alas! the interval is brief between Christianity small, and Christianity great, as regards space or terraqueous importance, compared with that interval which separates. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers] Reference
According to his view of the matter, this terraqueous world had been formed in the manner of a tart; the land being a mere marginal crust, within which rolled the watery world proper. From Wordnik.com. [Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2)] Reference
So naturally doth this reflection present itself, that to know something of the terraqueous globe, is a favourite object with every one who can taste the lowest rudiments of learning. From Wordnik.com. [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time] Reference
I can assure you that as matters in general go on the surface of this terraqueous globe, the death of a wife ought to be set down as a proof that heaven does not altogether overlook us. From Wordnik.com. [The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two] Reference
Sit down, and I will tell you a strange and wonderful story in proof of my thesis, which is, though you call me an obscurantist for it, that supernatural events still occur on this terraqueous globe. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by Foreign Authors: Spanish] Reference
Thus he explains the tides by the attraction of the terraqueous globe towards the moon, which to him does not appear odd or anomalous, but only a particular example of a general rule or law of nature. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge] Reference
This peculiarity is made manifest, not only by the terraqueous oscillations, but also by the undulations of the sound, which usually proceeds still further in a direction towards the south or the north. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests] Reference
Whether it be not even certain that the matrons of this forlorn country send out a greater proportion of its wealth, for fine apparel, than any other females on the whole surface of this terraqueous globe?. From Wordnik.com. [Querist] Reference
The philosophers, who have attended to the formation of the earth, have acknowledged two great agents in producing the various changes which the terraqueous globe has undergone, and these are water and fire. From Wordnik.com. [The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation] Reference
"Very far," said Don Quixote, "for of the three hundred and sixty degrees that this terraqueous globe contains, as computed by. From Wordnik.com. [Don Quixote] Reference
And defying the dangers and hardships Of a voyage round the terraqueous gk) be. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Political and Private Life of James Caulfield, Earl of Charlemont, Knight of St ...] Reference
A part how (mall of the terraqueous globe Is tenanted by man I the reft a wafte. From Wordnik.com. [Poems for Young Ladies: In Three Parts. Devotional, Moral, and Entertaining] Reference
Erelong, and deluge their terraqueous bed. From Wordnik.com. [The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes] Reference
ONCE more the soft, terraqueous chaunt I hear. From Wordnik.com. [The Masque of the Elements] Reference
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