aerolite
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Last week Harvey Harlow Nininger, Colorado meteorite expert, revealed discovery of a 700-lb. aerolite by a farmer near Hugoton, Kans.
From Time Magazine Archive
Buried a yard deep in the ground, it was the most massive aerolite ever turned up in that State.*
From Time Magazine Archive
You remember the hieroglyphic writing had told that the jewel came from the heart of an aerolite, and that the coffer was cut from it also.
From The Jewel of Seven Stars by Bram Stoker
All the children came round in silence to hear the story of Louis Lambert, discovered, like an aerolite, by Madame de Stael, in a corner of the wood.
From Louis Lambert by Honoré de Balzac
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.
From Tales of Terror and Mystery by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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