land-life

When our mud-loving ancestor, the lung-fish (who was probably "one of three brothers" who came over in the Mayflower -- the records have not been kept) began to crawl out on the tide-flats, he had every organ that he needed for land-life in excellent working condition and a fair degree of complexity: brain, stomach, heart, liver, kidneys; but he had to manufacture a lung, which he proceeded to do out of an old swim-bladder.

Preventable Diseases Woods Hutchinson 1896

Landing there from an American whaling-vessel, and in sailor costume, he cast off his tarry "togs," and took to land-life in California.

The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea Mayne Reid 1850

"You see, at one time, the dominant type of mobile land-life was the thing we call a shellosaur, a big thing, running from five to fifteen tons, plated all over with silicate shell, till it looked like a six-legged pine-cone.

Uller Uprising Piper, H. Beam 1952

"You see, at one time, the dominant type of mobile land-life was the thing we call a shellosaur, a big thing, running from five to fifteen tons, plated all over with silicate shell, till it looked like a six-legged pine-cone.

Uller Uprising H. Beam Piper 1934