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The stories "were connected by the repeated theme that earthmen are despoilers and not developers", according to the FBI.

From The Guardian • Aug. 30, 2012

Such a "Faustian"* universe, he says, would be unobservable by earthmen because Faustian matter would not in teract with normal matter; it would separate out into planets, solar systems and galaxies of its own.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the other hand, the indigenes would find the earthmen equally indigestible.

From Time Magazine Archive

So when earthmen land on a foreign planet, they had better not eat the indigenous plants or animals; if they do, they will be poisoned, or at least will not be nourished.

From Time Magazine Archive

The monster intended some one of earthmen In the hall-building grand to entrap and make way with: He goes towards the joyous building.

From Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem by Hall, Lesslie