The environmental stuff, yeah, it's kind of "earth-worship" but let's not forget, this is SCI-FI and this is NOT terra-firma. ❋ Unknown (2010)
As I ran at full speed, with my nose up in the atmosphere, and intent only upon the purloiner of my property, I suddenly perceived that my feet rested no longer upon terra-firma; the fact is, I had thrown myself over a precipice, and should inevitably have been dashed to pieces but for my good fortune in grasping the end of a long guide-rope which depended from a passing balloon. ❋ Unknown (2009)
We can argue discretion all day long, but there's no doubt in my mind Crowley is on legal terra-firma as far as the arrest based on current law. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Obviously a trust that pays out good money for upkeep for the senior while they remain alive and kicking on terra-firma and the residual of the trust/estate to be paid to a neutral charity upon death would go someway to making sure that children are more inclined to keep mum and dad in good working order. ❋ Glyn Davies (2008)
The northwestern portion is a mosaic of seasonally inundated and permanent swamp forest with mixed terra-firma moist evergreen and semi-evergreen rain forest components along levees and other areas of relief. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The gondolieri were frequently hailed, at this early hour, by the market-people, as they glided by towards Venice, and the lagune soon displayed a gay scene of innumerable little barks, passing from terra-firma with provisions. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Times without number there were when Garry's monumental fit of sulks bordered close on the ridiculous, but the needed triviality which would have precipitated the whole fabric to a terra-firma of absurdity failed to materialize. ❋ Larry Evans (N/A)
They shall not consent, or furnish occasion that the Indian natives and inhabitants of the said islands and and terra-firma, sustain any injury, either in their persons or their belongings, but they shall rather order that they be well and justly treated. ❋ Francis Augustus MacNutt (N/A)
We soon stood upon _terra-firma_, if these translucent rocks could be called _terra-firma_ which rose in glittering and polished peaks all around us. ❋ Henry J. Horn (N/A)
A bridge of fifty-one arches, traversing a series of swampy ground and etangs, connects this promontory with terra-firma, and crosses the great Languedoc canal, which communicates at this spot with the sea. ❋ John Hughes (N/A)
How they jostled about, as if they were afraid they shouldn't get their share of terra-firma! ❋ Fanny Fern (N/A)
Group of animals usually disporting on the terra-firma at base of large designs. ❋ Ada Wentworth Fitzwilliam (N/A)
Truly, the ordinary _terra-firma_ was of little consequence for home-keeping purposes to Jean Paul, as the reader will doubtless confess before he has proceeded far through the maze of Extra Leaves, Intercalary Days, ❋ Various (N/A)
I knew the place so intimately from photographs, and from high up in the air, that a view of it from terra-firma promised to be quite interesting. ❋ Keith Henderson (1932)
It did manifest a slight inclination to take up for the fistic enterprise -- fearfully slid one foot to terra-firma; but when the success of the carnival became doubtful the News hastened to resume its time-honored position astride the fence, and it has hung there ever since -- like a foul dish-rag across a wire clothes line. ❋ Unknown (1919)
"Hanythink to hoblige!" he grinned, and having made fast the painter, proceeded to splash us to terra-firma. ❋ Jeffery Farnol (1915)
Getting off the snow on to terra-firma took time, as in places it was thin, and it was possible to fall through into deep holes between the rocks. ❋ Mary Edith (1909)
The material part does not contain the impress of the whole soul, any more than the impress of the foot is the impress of the whole body; the aviation-ground is not the sphere of action proper to the aeroplane, but it is the part of _terra-firma_ necessary for flight, and it is also the resting-place, the refuge, the _hangar_ to which the aeroplane must always return. ❋ Maria Montessori (1911)
But once again on terra-firma, I discovered that the mist was now so thick that it had all the effect of a fog at sea. ❋ Anna Katharine Green (1890)
I made up my mind, and promised if ever I reached terra-firma never to set foot on that lake again; and I have kept my word inviolate. ❋ Nowlin, William, 1821-1884 (1876)
[It's good] to get [my feet] on terra firma again after being [at sea] for three months. ❋ Kung-Fu Jesus (2004)
Guy 1: Oh, [godzilla]! Come [check this] out! I got terra firma in here!
Guy 2: I’ll [pass], thanks. ❋ Exitflagger (2008)
