Word: firma
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...chose a site, subdivided and staked it in the fashion of real-estate visionaries throughout the ages. Had this been the conclusion of the tale Alexander the Great would have taken his place beside Nephew Napoleon and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers as judge of the value of terra firma...
...plasters should be applied delicately to the pit of the stomach. Wrote impish Mr. McAndrew: "Closer than a brother will this preserver of composure cling, even through your daily baths, until, at last, on terra firma once more, there comes the quick sharp pang of parting...
...wash of triangular humans and complexed realism that floods the fiction table in our book store really palatable swashbuckling yarns of blood and thunder stand out like welcome terra firma to a man in an open boat. For in the shifting sea of truth and actuality where floats the usual novel of today, the convincing tale of the impossible is a delectable and long sought isle where the casual reader may forget for a time that life is after all a rather nasty combination of prohibitions and inhibitions...
...terra firma's firm no more...
Spring is here! For a long time we have doubted the Monthly poets, but all uncertainty has fled before the latest announcement: "Straw hats will bloom on Saturday." Even the verdant green of the terra firma and the bingle of the bat on the ball are sometimes treacherous signs of the love-making season, but who can question the authority of the appearance of the hay lids? The weather man has promised a glorious day for the grass helmets on Saturday, and -- besides--the goals are hungry for that old brown derby...