Etymology
Origin of pre-Adamite
Example Sentences
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Oh those jagged mountains, rolled together like pre-Adamite beasts, and setting their teeth against the sky!
From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II by Kenyon, Frederic G. (Frederic George), Sir
Enjoy whatever this palace affords: the treasures of the pre-Adamite Sultans, their bickering sabres, and those talismans that compel the Dives to open the subterranean expanses of the mountain of Kaf, which communicate with these.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright
They worship nothing but graven images, and the Queen has fallen in love with Tancred, because he resembles a marble statue older than the times of the pre-Adamite Sultans.
From Tancred Or, The New Crusade by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
It is the call of the wild to which the pre-Adamite monkey in our nature responds.
From In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country by McCutcheon, John T.
That the pre-Adamite periods were of enormous duration.
From The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science by Dawson, John William
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