Terra ___

Usage examples of firma.

It was ordered that they should sail southwards by the coast of Terra Firma until they found either the end of that country or some strait by which they might arrive at the spice-bearing Moluccas.

Magellan ordered to sail for Terra Firma and seek for a passage to the.

According to those maggots in Rome and in Londinium, Terra and Firma commit treason by refusing to bankrupt themselves throwing good money after bad.

What Terra and Firma told us is true, and they were among the biggest marine traders in the world.

But you have also heard Terra and Firma, and you know they are correct.

Quintus Varo, our neighbour to the north, had worked his fields with ours, as had Terra and Firma, who had bought two villas to the east and south of us.

Einstein, however, but Brethanger, a scientist born on Firma about two hundred years ago.

Now the rotation had stopped, had been stopped for nearly ninety years, and Firma presented only one side of her face to the sun.

Could it be that over a century ago aliens had landed on Firma and that certain unscrupulous people had collaborated with them?

We know also that the ship bringing them to Firma held only eighteen, but now their numbers have increased to such an extent that room must be made in the temperate zone to house them.

I felt a plunging sensation like you get just before screaming downward toward terra firma on a roller coaster.

A little man in white ducks and peaked cap jumped out through the space where the door ought to have been, stood still for a couple of seconds until he got the hang of terra firma again, and then scuttled off in the direction of our gangway.

I went down that rope like a man reborn, checked suddenly as a strong hand caught me by the ankle, and five seconds later was on terra firma inside the sick bay.

When I reached the last one, a step away from terror firma, something grabbed my shoulder and jerked me backward.

Tamen Senones, quae est civitas in primis firma et magnae inter Gallos auctoritatis, Cavarinum, quem Caesar apud eos regem constituerat, cuius frater Moritasgus adventu in Galliam Caesaris cuiusque maiores regnum obtinuerant, interficere publico consilio conati, cum ille praesensisset ac profugisset, usque ad fines insecuti regno domoque expulerunt et, missis ad Caesarem satisfaciendi causa legatis, cum is omnem ad se senatum venire iussisset, dicto audientes non fuerunt.