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The line of tourists is reeled off like their thread in the hands of Clotho, the iron shears that snip it at stated intervals being represented by the unmythical steam-engine.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 by Various

But here is an atonement; for even in our unmythical, unbelieving days, the god 'Terminus' is made to stand guard over every railway station!

From Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various