autochthones
- plural of autochthon.
Example Sentences
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But now that there is evidence to indicate that the Terran Colony was an experiment, the planting of one Hainish Normal group on a world with its own proto-hominid autochthones, the possibility cannot be ignored.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
From the very ground they seemed to spring, these autochthones of confetti and side-shows.
From Fran by Ellis, J. Breckenridge (John Breckenridge)
The twenty May-poles which Cato proposed to plant in the hall stood already incarnate there as autochthones.
From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. II A Biography by Jean Paul
When occupied of a mellow October afternoon by a party of the autochthones, in their pea-jackets of blue or hickory homespun, it presents a gay and cheery spectacle.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 by Various
In his sources of information Tacitus found nothing to hinder him from assuming as probable the view he expresses—that the Teutons were aborigines, autochthones, fostered on the soil which was their fatherland.
From Teutonic Mythology, Vol. 1 of 3 Gods and Goddesses of the Northland by Ph.D.
