Terrestrian n.

Why is it…that your habitation, has so much influence upon the minds of many terrestrians?

If one man stood at some given point on the earth, and a second man was placed at some opposite spot of its circumference exactly a full diameter of the earth away, and an observer in the sun looked forth upon these two Terrestrians, he would see them an earth’s breadth asunder.

Executive…. An officer of the Government whose duty it is to enforce the wishes of the legislative power until such time as the judicial department shall be pleased to pronounce them mischievous and of no effect…. Lunarian: Then when your Congress has passed a law it goes directly to the Supreme Court in order that it may at once be known whether it is constitutional. Terrestrian: O no; it does not require the approval of the Supreme Court until having perhaps been enforced for many years somebody objects to its operation against himself.

If every youngster in the World is not convinced within three months that every inhabitant of the Moon is a monster, and that the first duty of every Terrestrian is to hate and destroy the Moon, then I'll fire my editorial writers. But I am not worried about that. They know their business.

This rocket squad was composed almost solely of Terrestrians, for they were used to the greater gravity of Earth, and could stand greater acceleration than could Venerians.

I could make out the booming of the big-chested Martians, the high screaming of the fishmen, the shouting of Terrestrians, merging in a crowd-noise that could be heard nowhere but in the system’s space ports.

You better hand me those Planet Stories, or I'll blast you out of the universe, you miserable Terrestrian!

In fact, I imported half a dozen Terrestrians five years back on agricultural laborer visas so they could oversee the robots. Now they can do wonders with the land, you know. Where they spit, corn grows fifteen feet high. Well, that helped a little. And using Terrestrian seed helped. But even if you grow Terrestrian grain, its seed won’t hold the next year.

How would it look for the First Administrator to go limping around the galaxies explaining that he was behind schedule because his ship got wrecked on Sol III and the Terrestrians were incapable of matching his drives?

In space, the Lasdians had proved their worth over we Terrestrians—they could withstand accelleration and extremes of temperature that would render us helpless.