Aerolite

I have suggested (Pilgrimage iii. 159) that the famous Black Stone of Meccah, which appears to me a large aerolite, is a remnant of this worship and that the tomb of Eve near Jeddah was the old “Sakhrah tawílah” or Long Stone (ibid. iii. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Some days elapsed without any object, aerolite or otherwise, being described, and without any trumpet notes being heard in the atmosphere. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Was it an aerolite shooting obliquely through the atmosphere? ❋ Unknown (2003)

It appeared to me a common aerolite covered with a thick slaggy coating, glossy and pitch-like, worn and polished. ❋ Unknown (2003)

“Albatross,” so that she might have been taken for a flaming aerolite. ❋ Unknown (2003)

A discussion arose on this subject, and Michel Ardan, always ready with an explanation, gave it as his opinion that the projectile, held by the lunar attraction, would end by falling on the surface of the terrestrial globe like an aerolite. ❋ Unknown (2003)

But later on it was discovered that the observers had been deceived in the body, and that what they had seen was an aerolite. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Whatever it might be, asteroid or aerolite or aerial monster, it had reappeared in such a way that its dimensions and shape could be much better appreciated, first in Canada, over the country between ❋ Unknown (2003)

Whilst kissing it and rubbing hands and forehead upon it I narrowly observed it, and came away persuaded that it is an aerolite. ❋ Unknown (2003)

This aerolite could not be the object in question, for how could an aerolite blow a trumpet? ❋ Unknown (2003)

But already I had shot away on the steepest glide that I dared to attempt, my engine still full on, the flying propeller and the force of gravity shooting me downwards like an aerolite. ❋ Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 (1992)

Spanish Conquest, the inhabitants of Cholula preserved with great veneration a large aerolite, which they said was the thunderbolt that fell upon the top of the pyramid when the fire struck it. ❋ Edward Burnett Tylor (N/A)

I know of no aerolite that has ever been acceptably traced to terrestrial origin. ❋ Charles Fort (N/A)

In token of his {47} friendship, King Attalus presented the ambassadors of the senate with the black aerolite, supposed to be the abode of the goddess, that this ruler had shortly before transferred from Pessinus to Pergamum. ❋ Franz Cumont (N/A)

For it must be borne in mind that this was her first and wholly unexpected outburst into society; the experience was that of an obscure aerolite suddenly become a noble meteor. ❋ Booth Tarkington (1907)

M. Tissot, the astronomer, had, at half-past ten the previous night, observed through the 40-inch telescope of the Nice observatory a body which seemed a tiny planet or aerolite of abnormal size. ❋ Unknown (1906)

The investigation was in all respects successful, and Biot's report transferred the stony or metallic lightning-bolt -- the aerolite or meteorite -- from the realm of tradition and conjecture to that of accepted science. ❋ Unknown (1904)

This was an epoch when electrical phenomena were exciting unbounded and universal interest, and there was a not unnatural tendency to appeal to electricity in explanation of every obscure phenomenon; and in this case the seeming similarity between a lightning flash and the flash of an aerolite lent color to the explanation. ❋ Unknown (1904)

I believe my general impression was that of which I have spoken, that they were all burned to death on the instant, as the little aerolite fused in its passage through our atmosphere. ❋ Unknown (1899)