Adamite

When in operation, the sphere is protonically charged, and the truncated cone of adamite collects the electrons, taking them from their regular orbits and redirecting them in a continuous stream against whichever portion of the sphere it is pointed at. ❋ Johnny Pez (2009)

Bloody old pre-adamite with his twohandled umberella! ❋ Unknown (2006)

Your lovely little person in my estimation is far more precious than all the treasures of the pre-adamite Sultans, and I wish to possess it at pleasure, and in open day, for many a moon, before I go to burrow underground like a mole. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Of all the pre-adamite whale yet exhumed, by far the largest is the Alabama one mentioned in the last chapter, and that was less than seventy feet in length in the skeleton. ❋ Unknown (2002)

But not alone has this Leviathan left his pre-adamite traces in the stereotype plates of nature, and in limestone and marl bequeathed his ancient bust; but upon Egyptian tablets, whose antiquity seems to claim for them an almost fossiliferous character, we find the unmistakable print of his fin. ❋ Unknown (2002)

In the same extinct sea is found the skeleton of the Plesiosaurus, a marine lizard of equal size, and warm-blooded, whose swan-like neck and body graced the serene seas of the pre-adamite world. ❋ Various (N/A)

The wind had done in that northern latitude what has been performed by some violent pre-adamite agency in the Berber desert. ❋ Various (N/A)

With rocket-motors of adamite -- the stuff discovered by pure accident in a steel-mill back on Earth -- the propelling apparatus checked out. ❋ Murray Leinster (1935)

As I don't, I merely smile again, and say "Yes" to Jenkyns Soames, who is giving me his reasons for supposing, by calculation, that vegetables have had a pre-adamite existence, and that even a turnip may have a glorious future before it, when man has disappeared from the face of the earth. ❋ Unknown (1876)

In the eighteenth century I would have stood up for Scheuchzer's pre-adamite man against Peter ❋ Jules Verne (1866)

Oregon, if one may judge by the fossil remains in Mr. Condon's collection, seems once to have been inhabited by a great number and variety of pre-adamite beasts; but the most singular object he has to show is a very striking ape's head, carved with great spirit and vigor out of hard lava. ❋ Charles Nordhoff (1865)

It is needless to say that this has been for the most part the construction put upon the words of the Mosaic writer, until a clear perception of the creative design which destined the tiger and lion for flesh-eaters, and latterly the geological proof of flesh-eating, monsters having existed among the pre-adamite inhabitants of the globe, rendered it necessary to ignore this meaning. ❋ 1821-1902 (1860)

Of all the pre-adamite whales yet exhumed, by far the largest is the ❋ Herman Melville (1855)

Of all the pre-adamite whales yet exhumed, by far the largest is the Alabama one mentioned in the last chapter, and that was less than seventy feet in length in the skeleton. ❋ Herman Melville (1855)

Detached broken fossils of pre-adamite whales, fragments of their bones and skeletons, have within thirty years past, at various intervals, been found at the base of the Alps, in Lombardy, in France, in England, in ❋ Herman Melville (1855)

Of all the pre - adamite whales yet exhumed, by far the largest is the Alabama one mentioned in the last chapter, and that was less than seventy feet in length in the skeleton. ❋ Unknown (1851)

Further back, through a dusty cloud, I beheld dimly the seventy-two pre-adamite kings, with their seventy-two peoples, for ever passed away. ❋ Th��ophile Gautier (1841)