How To Use Terra firma In A Sentence
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Recall that Dziekanski had been on terra firma for half a day before he was killed: is this a case, as I noted earlier, of "retroactive aviophobia?
Archive 2008-12-01
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It all began with a swampy piece of land at the top of Liardet St, which was drained and filled to become terra firma.
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The young man's veracity seemed as solid as terra firma, and as for the body...
THE CRASH OF HENNINGTON
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Back on terra firma with a coldie firmly in hand, my dive buddies and I could only agree that it had been a truly spectacular day of diving - and even better, we'd had both dive sites to ourselves.
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No doubt a long swim would get you back to terra firma but, call us wimps, we weren't prepared to risk it - despite John's appeal to the adventurer in us.
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Endowed with terra firma grandeur , China is as the single uninterrupted civilization the world.
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There's lamb and lynx and lion, Yet no fowl and no fish, either, Left on my terra firma.
BEHINDLINGS
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Just as quickly, the band shoves terra firma back under your feet; drums die, pianos fade, and chimes reverb in the brickblack.
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A flying squirrel munches a meal on terra firma.
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I could feel the grooved tread - bristling with conical studs - hustle mud out from under my foot and latch on to the terra firma beneath.
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`I'll be glad to get my feet back on terra firma again," he said through gritted teeth.
CODE BREAKER
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And if you heard the folks from this feisty bit of terra firma, you'd know their accent, not to mention their vocabulary was indubitably indelicate if not incomprehensibly improper.
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We were glad to be back on terra firma.
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They have that rather dazed look of people who have just got off a fairground waltzer: none of them can quite believe they're all back on terra firma.
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There she splashed about frantically and implored her companions to "thave" her until helped to terra firma by
The Meadow-Brook Girls Under Canvas
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It was good to get back on terra firma again after that awful sea crossing.
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This "lingula" rests upon a base of terra firma whose westernmost projection is Indian Point.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2
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Together these symbols signify that she is standing on a clefted place called the Yax Hal Witznal in ancient Mayan, meaning the "First True Mountain Place," the first piece of terra firma to appear after Creation.
Bearers of War and Creation
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In the California Delta, the levee is the guiding force that funnels the 1,000 miles or so of rivers, sloughs, cuts, marshlands and other waterways through the surrounding terra firma.
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After returning to terra firma the photographer said: ‘It was a lot further up that I realised and I admire the builders for their pluck in being able to work up so high.’
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This “lingula” rests upon a base of terra firma whose westernmost projection is Indian
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
