| 单词 | antediluvian |
| 例句 | Whether there’s anywhere near enough mass interest in this antediluvian franchise to turn it into a 21st-century hit, well, I’m afraid that’s quite another story. “Snow White and the Huntsman”: A would-be fantasy classic 2012-05-30T23:00:00Z Uma soon discovers that Paradise Hills is a rehab center for privileged young women who don’t conform to their family’s antediluvian norms of femininity. ‘Paradise Hills’ Review: Caged Birds Singing, Maybe Escaping 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z Our longing to see these vanished creatures for real drives an endless industry of re-creation in which intense visual imagination is brought to bear on the dead stone traces of the antediluvians. Drawing with dinosaurs: in praise of the artist's impression 2011-02-17T15:29:34Z They don’t reduce their characters to what have become antediluvian caricatures: wholly sweet, or sharp-tongued, or doddering or dotty. Seasoned Actors Like Michael Caine and Lily Tomlin Dot Awards Field 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z That is the movie’s big joke, and while it sounds positively antediluvian it also brings to mind news reports that the Trump administration plans to introduce abstinence-only education this summer. Review: The Kids Are All Right in ‘Blockers.’ The Parents Are Dopes. 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z One stop could be Nederland’s antediluvian Goldminer Hotel, listed in the Registrar of Historic Places. Leaf Peeping Is Not Canceled: 6 Drives and Hikes to Try This Fall 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z One newspaperman described the megalosaurus, the greatest of the “antediluvian monsters,” as a scaly dragon with the “head of a gryphon” and an “eye as big as a cheese-cake.” Creating a Lost World, From the Fossils Out 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Magnet - The Landlord's Daughter – While I do not endorse the antediluvian sentiments of this song, I do like the tune. Readers recommend: Songs about concerts 2010-05-20T23:01:00Z As gender relations evolved, the romantic comedy rarely rose to the great screwball occasion, dragged down by antediluvian stereotypes and formulas. Movie Review: ‘Celeste and Jesse Forever’ Stars Rashida Jones 2012-08-02T21:33:44Z The film channels a hundred artifacts of pop culture — antediluvian video games like Space Invaders and Tom Cruise’s orchestra-conductor gestures at a computer screen from MInority Report — but in a contemplative, almost dreamy fashion. Ender’s Game: Is This Boy ‘The One’? 2013-11-01T23:16:53Z Human violence in the antediluvian world, best represented by Cain’s murder of Abel, springs from the evil machinations of man. “Noah” wasn’t the first: 5 flood stories you may not know 2014-04-12T14:30:00Z Although the Lot Radio lies within spitting distance of Williamsburg’s looming hotels and overflowing nightclubs, this makeshift hangout, which began as an internet radio station and coffee shop, conjures a charmingly antediluvian era. A Makeshift Bar on a Dusty Brooklyn Patch 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z But at least you weren’t sandbagged by some antediluvian notion of how family is supposed to work. Films Like ‘The Boss Baby’ Can Be Painful for Adoptees and Foster Kids 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z If I wanted to see that stuff I could go to an exhibition by some antediluvian RA. Tracey Emin should have had more fun at the seaside 2012-05-25T15:16:36Z Mr. Visconti was also a producer and performer on Mr. Bowie's last studio album, "Reality," which was released in 2003 -- antediluvian times on the David Bowie scale. ArtsBeat: Hang On to Yourself: New Album Coming From David Bowie 2013-01-08T14:02:10Z Davis acknowledged that previously "we were still rather antediluvian in our technical abilities here." Lyric Opera staging 2 epics in 1 season 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Some of their best-known recordings were updates of foreboding antediluvian ballads like “In the Pines” and “Knoxville Girl.” Charlie Louvin, Country Singer, Dies at 83 2011-01-26T17:23:00Z The view that Avery worked for decades to achieve a final blast of brilliance seems as antediluvian as the idea that he worked alone in a style that overpowered his wife’s work. A Singular American Painter and His Perennially Disregarded Wife 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z As they were over 18 at the time, none of the women complained of being molested by Jimmy Savile, but they none the less had to put up with some painfully antediluvian male attitudes. Rewind TV: Homeland; Wonderland: I Was Once a Beauty Queen – review 2012-10-13T23:06:22Z Western audiences, he said, “find them as antediluvian as the battle for workers’ rights in England in the time of Marx.” Andrzej Wajda, Towering Auteur of Polish Cinema, Dies at 90 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z It was a country deeply divided by class and birth; yet it was one united by an unspoken moral consensus that now seems almost antediluvian. The King's Speech: How George VI's simple domesticity made him the king his country needed in time of war 2011-01-02T00:05:01Z Some sites invite you to join the throwback party in a tactile way, either by suiting up in historic garb or trying your hand at antediluvian crafts or trades. Historical interpreters serve as time travelers in a tech-crazed modern world 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Nothing particularly unusual about that, apart from the sheer antediluvian unorthodoxy of being someone who still buys much of their music as an immutable, physical product. Don't let independent classical music shops become a thing of the past 2010-07-28T14:17:00Z But the script forces antediluvian clichés on some of the grown-up female characters. Review: In ‘Between the Lines,’ Romance Is Thwarted by Reality 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z It’s impossible to be surprised by this morsel of news, merely the latest expression of Trump’s mundane, antediluvian misogyny. Why Melissa McCarthy Made a Great Sean Spicer 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z There is a strange sense of almost antediluvian time operating in this atmospheric collection, and intriguing hints at lives influenced more by myth than by history. New Southern Fiction By Percival Everett, Wiley Cash and Andrew Siegrist 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z Darren Aronofsky's Noah has already entered production with Russell Crowe as the antediluvian patriarch with the famous ark, while Spielberg and Ridley Scott are said to be planning rival Moses epics. Warner Bros planning film about Pontius Pilate 2012-08-22T14:39:23Z The term “mad men” has become an adjective, a shorthand way to describe things that are louche, elegant and dissipated in an antediluvian way. Television: Changes for Fourth Season of ?Mad Men? 2010-07-16T19:01:00Z And how soon before discs will be as antediluvian as videotape and all media will be on your computer desktop? This Week?s DVD?s: A Wonka Box Set and a New York Times Documentary 2011-10-18T20:57:20Z But the worldview presented here is rather antediluvian, particularly in its depiction of gender relations. Books of The Times: Matt Bell Describes a Relationship’s Trajectory in a Debut Novel 2013-07-25T17:38:28Z Because of the state’s antediluvian liquor laws, established four days before Prohibition’s repeal in 1933, it is a less-bilious wine city. It’s Philadelphia, hon, so relax! 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z As my colleague Amanda Marcotte points out, Johnson is an antediluvian, patriarchal, misogynist with all that that implies and he has devoted his life to re-making America into an explicitly Christian fundamentalist state. Mike Johnson's MAGA honeymoon: How long can the new House speaker hold the GOP intact? 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z The rituals were only the start of 10 days of ceremony that will strike some as charming and others as hopelessly antediluvian. Charles, in First Speech as King, Pledges a Reign of Service to Britain 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z Of all the units that measure all the things, Scoville heat units have got to be the most antediluvian. Perspective | Sorry, Scoville. Peppers deserve better than an archaic heat scale. 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z Microsoft released the first version of Internet Explorer in 1995, the antediluvian era of web surfing dominated by the first widely popular browser, Netscape Navigator. So long, Internet Explorer. The browser is finally retiring 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z Samuel Alito’s antediluvian draft opinion is the Puritans’ greatest victory since they expelled Roger Williams from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Opinion | Marilyn Monroe v. Samuel Alito 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z I felt that the election of such a man signaled that the nation was rapidly deteriorating into an antediluvian state in which the progress of the 20th century was rapidly unraveling. Why Donald Trump is downplaying the Supreme Court's leaked abortion ruling 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z “There will always be people who will be antediluvian,” he said. Taking the ‘Shame Part’ Out of Female Anatomy 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z It turns out that the governing body of collegiate sports is beset not only with antediluvian sexism but also with an air ball of a business strategy. Opinion | For the NCAA, the real madness isn’t in March 2021-08-08T04:00:00Z Moreover, the months-long outpouring of such obnoxious, antediluvian expressions by some who profess loyalty to VMI only reinforces persuasive evidence that the school’s culture is in dire need of a sea change. Opinion | VMI’s funding is rightfully at stake as accounts of sexism and racism multiply 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z He called her views “antediluvian,” adding some alumni are terrified of any lifetime appointment for Barrett to the court. Alumni at Barrett’s undergrad school sign letter of concern 2020-10-03T04:00:00Z And his party is on board with the antediluvian vibe. Opinion | A.O.C. and the Jurassic Jerks 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z The figure was chosen because lawmakers wanted to provide workers with the money they would have earned, but the antediluvian conditions in many state unemployment offices made it impossible to tailor benefits. Editorial Roundup: US 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z He liked Lego, played Pong on an antediluvian 1980s Atari and was a fan of Dungeons and Dragons. 'A chain of stupidity': the Skripal case and the decline of Russia's spy agencies 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z Many Democrats treat even cautious reopening as recklessness based on greed and an antediluvian attitude toward science. It’s all about the economy, so it’s all about corona 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z Villasante added that the nonprofit representing Ansari “is pushing their antediluvian, anti-worker agenda at all cost at a time when Americans keep demanding stronger laws to protect their right to join together in unions.” Muslim man sues union, Boston College over mandatory dues 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z In the age of one-click delivery, it can seem antediluvian to trudge home with brutally heavy sacks dangling from your shoulders. The Grocery Store Where Produce Meets Politics 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z In 2016, Donald Trump, an unapologetic racist, lost the popular ballot by three million votes but, thanks to the antediluvian rules that still govern our voting system, succeeded Obama in the Oval Office. A Racist in the White House 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z In a reference to Bolsonaro’s notoriously antediluvian attitudes, the Brazilian feminist Sâmia Bomfim praised a “wise decision from those who specialize in jurassic creatures”. US museum of natural history will not host Bolsonaro gala event after outrage 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z Tonight, all six speakers have the knack of being able to incite the crowd or make them laugh – even the antediluvian Rees-Mogg, dubbed the honourable member for the 18th century. ‘We're reactivating the people’s army’: inside the battle for a hard Brexit 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z The pair survive on found food like antediluvian Twinkies from back in the day, causing Hester to knowingly proclaim, “the food of the ancients is indestructible.” Review: ‘Mortal Engines,’ a visual marvel, is half wonderful, half monotonous 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z But the antediluvian customs of confirmation hearings allow nominees to duck such queries, so the real research on nominees now goes on during the selection process, rather than the confirmation hearings. The Deceptive Contrast Between Trump and Kavanaugh 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z Then he pointed out that he really was doing Trump's bidding by enacting their antediluvian policies to take America back to the '50s -- meaning the 1850s. How soon will Donald Trump fire Jeff Sessions? After the midterms, he can get away with it 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z CBS probably is not sellable to Comcast or Disney , both of which already own broadcast networks, with their lingering, antediluvian significance in the minds of politicians and regulators. CBS Scandal Is Neatly Timed 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z The system now faces the antediluvian economics of President Donald Trump, who seems bent on its destruction. In America, a political coalition in favour of protectionism may be emerging 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Under the doctrine of state pre-emption, that antediluvian statute trumps local control of land use. Colorado Editorial Roundup 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z Bret: That loophole is no different from paying the capital-gains rate on the sale of a home, but you know I’m antediluvian on this subject. Opinion | The Violence That Never Sleeps 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z By 2050, not just the idea of 'a job for life', but even the idea of 'a profession for life' might seem antediluvian. Reboot for the AI revolution 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z Politics in the muggy swamp of Washington, where I lived in those antediluvian years, had become a tug of war between two hated teams. A fairy tale from 2050 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z Which means, to my everlasting shame, that I must still be a good boy, even if now of a distinctly antediluvian sort. The insult wars in Washington 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z “In case you’re wondering, my opinions are just as conservative, reactionary and antediluvian as they’ve always been,” Mr. Stephens said in his speech. Bret Stephens, conservative NYT columnist, urges students at commencement to leave ‘safe spaces’ 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z That left the Dodgers cooped up inside the antediluvian visitor’s clubhouse. To get back to the World Series, the Dodgers have focused on clubhouse chemistry 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z This antediluvian formulation underlined the difficulty of Gawker’s task in defending itself from a privacy claim as opposed to a libel suit; the defendants were forced to defend their taste rather than their accuracy. Gawker’s Demise and the Trump-Era Threat to the First Amendment 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z For sure, some of the support for Trump is doubtless down to an appetite for base prejudice, and in some cases an antediluvian aversion to the idea of a woman president. The reasons for Trump were also the reasons for Brexit | John Harris 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z It also derives from an antediluvian belief that marriage means a kind of merging that renders the very notion of privacy anathema or moot. Do You Have a Right to Privacy in Your Marriage? 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z But Uber also proves to be smart investment for Saudi leaders attempting to quell criticism of their antediluvian approach toward women's rights. Uber, But For Desperate Petrostates 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z Professor Morowitz compared the antediluvian primordial soup to a common condiment. Harold Morowitz, Biophysicist Who Tackled Enigmas Big and Small, Dies at 88 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z And the GOP running him as their guy stains their attempts to paint their party as modern or conservative, since his views are antediluvian. Clinton and Trump Win Arizona; Cruz Picks Up Utah; Sanders Takes 2 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z He is the only major American political figure in many decades to display such an antediluvian worldview so openly. Trump’s dangerous dance with bigotry 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Many of Stout’s recent assemblages include antediluvian radios and televisions, tuned not to “The Green Hornet” or “I Love Lucy,” but to the spirit world. Women’s artwork is never done 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Her brand of torch songs and cabaret showtunes might seem antediluvian to some, but a voice with such power to convey emotion never dates. Edith Piaf at 100: the singer who defined Parisian courage 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z Not that any of this context found its way into the New York Times piece, whose apparent impetus was entirely reactionary: Fannie and Freddie must be restored to their antediluvian status because, because, because . Fannie and Freddie’s Propaganda War 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z Cro-Magnon in France, Altamira in Spain and Neanderthal are among the best-known antediluvian hot spots. Want a Selfie With a Neanderthal? Visit Europe’s Cave-Man Museums 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z OK, so Iran hasn’t really moderated its belligerent behavior, much less its antediluvian worldview. The Best Arguments for an Iran Deal 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z And when it is mentioned, with some notable exceptions, it is often caricatured as a wasteful antediluvian method of treatment without empirical support rooted in discredited theories. Why It's Time To Take A New Look At Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z But Menendez, a Hillary Clinton backer in ’08, was also, in the eyes of the White House, at best difficult and, at worst, antediluvian—a throwback who hadn’t gotten the hope-and-change message. Meet Barack Obama's Frenemy: Democratic Senator Bob Menendez 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z There is no such thing as prehistoric in the YEC view – just antediluvian. Government Coming Down Harder On Kent Hovind 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z Scalia is so antediluvian that he has trouble forcing himself to call it by its proper name. We’ve reached the inevitable tipping point on gay marriage The Menu: "A boiling swimming cup of a choice concoction labelled coffee on the table and a rather antediluvian specimen of a bun." The top 10 restaurants and bars in modern literature 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z This reversal happened after the New York Times broke the news of Bundy’s disgusting and antediluvian views on race and slavery. Fox News flip flop: Sean Hannity backs away from Cliven Bundy the racist rancher 2014-04-25T14:49:00Z Despite these horrible realities, this antediluvian system of biological determinism, we’re told repeatedly by those opposed to BDS that the desires of the colonizer supersede the rights of the colonized. Academics should boycott Israel: Growing movement takes next step 2013-12-04T18:22:00Z And there are those who think of the whole business of podium girls as a little antediluvian. Why does cycling have podium girls? 2013-07-03T10:49:37Z Male reporters were not immune from their overlords' antediluvian attitudes. Who's wearing the pants now on Mad Men? 2013-06-03T15:15:00Z This most portmanteau-like of beasts, a chimerical escapee from a medieval bestiary, or an antediluvian throwback, seemed, like all such monsters, to shift shape with the changing times. Has the internet killed the Loch Ness monster? 2013-05-02T11:05:58Z Some History It was this antediluvian gesture, shorn of all accoutrements of modernity that arguably serves as a crude model for the giant carefully choreographed music festivals of today. Coachella: Three Delightful Days In The Desert Versus Two Hours Of Madonna 2013-04-21T13:25:08Z In 1979, as the minority Labour government of James Callaghan floundered and Britain’s antediluvian labor unions visited their grievances on long-suffering voters, her party won a decisive victory. Farewell to the Iron Lady: Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013) 2013-04-08T13:50:23Z As a result, the coalition was free to implant its antediluvian economics in the public mind, and Labour was incapable of arguing back. A prediction: Osborne's budget will not solve Britain's problems 2013-03-17T20:39:37Z Critics lambasted the firm for an antediluvian attitude towards the workplace. The future of telecommuting: Corralling the Yahoos 2013-02-28T16:08:29Z I am confident Broun cannot be turned into a goat, but can he at least be moved to a committee where his antediluvian, ahem, views are less likely to impede progress? A Silent Goat Outwits a Talking MD 2012-12-05T15:17:37.553Z A Building That Endured Nearly Two Centuries Is Threatened by Hurricane Sandy The invalid known as 502 Canal Street is nearly two centuries old, which is practically antediluvian for anything man-made in Manhattan. City Room: A Building That Endured Nearly Two Centuries Is Threatened by Hurricane Sandy 2012-11-18T16:36:26Z And if publishers protest about infringement of copyright and authors moan about their moral rights, well, that just shows how antediluvian they are. New-tech moguls: the modern robber barons? 2012-06-30T23:04:09Z Confirmation of the Deluge story was found in the fossil shells on high mountain tops; while as for the giants of antediluvian times, there were the huge bones in proof. Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z Where could they pick up such an antediluvian conveyance? The Huguenot: (Volumes I-III) A Tale of the French Protestants. 2012-04-25T02:00:59.637Z He came into the world with a sort of antediluvian gravity that never bodes any good. A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. 2012-04-23T02:00:29.820Z The countess gave her a sealskin coat for next winter, kissed her on both cheeks, and disappeared as abruptly from West Kensington as Enoch from the antediluvian landscape. The Vanity Girl 2012-04-12T02:00:26.883Z He ascribes it to the abnormal wickedness of the antediluvians. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis 2012-04-08T02:00:21.793Z Following the history of the antediluvians, in Genesis, chap. vi., we are not a little surprised to find a new race of, beings on earth. A Legacy to the Friends of Free Discussion 2012-04-06T02:00:26.317Z Of or relating to the period before the Deluge in Noah's time; hence, antiquated; as, an antediluvian vehicle. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z Among the antediluvians, sheep were used for sacrificial offerings, and their fleeces, in all probability, furnished them with clothing. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z If all Jews dropped their antediluvian ways and became assimilated with the Russian population half of the unfortunate Jewish question would be solved.” The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z And if he did not include an antediluvian oyster shell, say fifteen inches long, in this collection, it would be for lack of room and not because the bivalve was not interesting. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia 2012-03-13T02:00:27.187Z The antediluvians, one and all, were so wicked, that “the Lord repented that he had made man on the earth; and it grieved him at his heart.” A Legacy to the Friends of Free Discussion 2012-04-06T02:00:26.317Z Anything that happened last week seems to them old; last year, antediluvian. Horace Chase 2012-03-08T03:00:09.693Z He gave no Bible to the antediluvians, and they became so bad that he had to destroy them. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:52.627Z If the dreamers and scholars you refer to could speak Russian and looked less antediluvian than they do the prejudice that every Jew is a money-lender would gradually disappear. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z In some parts of the works there are impressions of antediluvian plants, of which we found some interesting specimens. Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII 2012-02-08T03:00:17.410Z For aught we know, it was an experiment to improve the antediluvian race. A Legacy to the Friends of Free Discussion 2012-04-06T02:00:26.317Z It is now becoming clear that it will be months — significantly longer than initially expected — before production of hard drives returns to antediluvian levels. Floodwaters Are Gone, but Supply Chain Issues Linger 2012-01-20T12:25:51Z The lot of the antediluvian world bore witness to that truth. Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom 2012-01-11T03:00:30.173Z To occupy their minds while they were waiting for the ferry—a small antediluvian affair which could only accommodate about one-fifth of the crowd at a time—the priest asked them for a song. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z A Manchu home, in short, has the appearance of a cattle show, or a Noah's ark, and the life lived is unquestionably antediluvian. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z She is about 20 years old and wears short frocks, but talks like Alice Robeson and has an antediluvian face about as large as the top of a flour-barrel. Notes of a Son and Brother 2011-12-29T03:00:14.087Z This practice is supposed to have originated with the Cainites in the antediluvian world; but for high and prudential reasons, it was tolerated rather than approved under the Patriarchal dispensation and the Mosaic law. The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 2011-12-24T03:07:59.623Z Cockie was not a pretty bird; his bill was worn and all twisted awry, and his eyes looked terribly old-fashioned, and the blue, wrinkled skin around them gave him quite an antediluvian look. Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" 2011-12-15T03:00:12.560Z “Well then, it is this: get rid of these antediluvian togs o’ yours. The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure 2011-12-13T03:00:23.197Z Some magnificent specimens of antediluvian skeletons have been excavated, and these are zealously kept in the museums of St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Irkutsk. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z I reasoned that Viola's expeditions were doing her good, that I ought to be grateful for them, and I repeated the antediluvian fallacy that my jealousy was only indicative of my love. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z “In his own tongue, Klaas interrogated this antediluvian Bushman, and then, suddenly, as he was answered by the word ‘Ariseep’ a light flashed across his countenance. From Veldt Camp Fires 2011-12-01T03:00:21.397Z Old Th�ophile roused himself as if by unconscious antediluvian habit, but Marie plucked him back and ran for the flag with the scarlet cloth cross. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z The trinity of Christianity was to him as impossible and unacceptable as the antediluvian or later polytheism of his own countrymen. Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study 2011-11-25T03:00:15.820Z If that seems antediluvian, consider this in the context of NCAA-as-criminal-judge: What should happen to a school employing a coach, for instance, who kills somebody while driving drunk? The death penalty for Penn State? 2011-11-11T01:07:23Z Then the offices along the Hudson are perfectly antediluvian and barbarous, and mere mockery and delusion. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z What they don’t need is to chase after this fraudulent, destructive, antediluvian thing called a B.A. The Choice Blog: Are Too Many Americans Earning Four-Year Degrees? 2011-10-19T17:29:18Z Our brotherhood is linked with the past, and clasps hands with the antediluvians; the flood scattered the races of earth, but did not disturb our secrets. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z But what would the antediluvian souls, who compose my dramatis personae say to the innovations made upon time in these day of delicate and fashionable refinement? Bungay Castle: A Novel. v. 1/2 2011-09-27T02:00:20.260Z Skeletons of the wolf, and a gigantic bear, in point of preservation, like what are to be found in ordinary churchyards—supposed to be of antediluvian origin, where found here. Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. 2011-09-26T02:00:29.140Z I had ten times rather read about the antediluvians, and I wish sometimes they might go and keep them company. Mind Amongst the Spindles 2011-09-20T02:00:13.677Z South of him lay the broad city moat, a noisome antediluvian defence. Wang the Ninth The Story of a Chinese Boy 2011-09-12T02:00:25.620Z The enemy river craft were early astir, and so were their antediluvian Archies. Caught by the Turks 2011-09-09T02:01:01.073Z The current curriculum undermines the authority of the education system by revealing to tech-savvy children how antediluvian it is. Kids today need a licence to tinker 2011-08-27T23:04:00Z The annalists of the western empire give it as Castrum-Caino, and whether its origin dates from antediluvian times or not, it was a town in the very earliest days of the Christian era. Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country 2011-08-27T02:00:22.057Z On the other hand, it is better that you see the carriage, they have some antediluvian arks! Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z They say that from a single bone Professor Owen can reconstruct an entire antediluvian animal; I must try and do something similar to reconstruct my existence during the last twelve or fourteen hours. Humorous Readings and Recitations In prose and verse 2011-07-20T02:00:16.323Z All around the skull and on the floor of the portico there were heaps of white flowers, which, though not quite antediluvian, were totally unknown to us. The Best Psychic Stories 2011-07-13T02:00:21.943Z He broke the back of the antediluvian print unions, revolutionized broadcasting and has kept the London Times afloat even though it loses tens of millions of pounds a year. Three cheers for Murdoch! 2011-07-08T22:20:00Z This undoubtedly means that you're using a set of antediluvian war words or definitions from your father's day. Our new language of perpetual war 2011-06-23T21:01:00Z Occasionally, for years afterward, the diggers of cellars or cisterns in the buried region would unearth interesting antediluvian relics. Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes 2011-06-13T02:00:27.317Z After the destruction of that antediluvian church, another succeeded, possessing a written Word, a splendid ceremonial and boundless treasures of spiritual wisdom. In Both Worlds 2011-06-08T02:00:17.360Z We next come to Enoch, who presents a very important figure among the antediluvians, and of whom there are some very marvelous things related. An Examination into and an Elucidation of the Great Principle of the Mediation and Atonement of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ 2011-06-06T02:00:07.650Z The curé was there, and the mayor, dressed in an antediluvian frock coat and top hat. Average Americans 2011-06-02T02:00:20.387Z Like the antediluvian giants, they were undismayed even when the land began to sink beneath their feet; and for them there was no ark of deliverance.183 184 Lower Cretaceous Leaves. The Chain of Life in Geological Time A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants 2011-06-01T02:00:24.880Z The remains of giants and of antediluvians were frequent in museums. The Plurality of Worlds 2011-06-01T02:00:23.787Z “Oh! if Ja-bol-he-moth,” he suddenly exclaimed with a fierce earnestness, “if Ja-bol-he-moth and other great antediluvian giants could only escape from their imprisonment, we would soon transform the whole earth to our liking.” In Both Worlds 2011-06-08T02:00:17.360Z This same Gospel was preached to Seth, and to all the antediluvian Patriarchs, and they ministered under its authority. An Examination into and an Elucidation of the Great Principle of the Mediation and Atonement of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ 2011-06-06T02:00:07.650Z Children usually look upon their parents as having lived in past ages, and being of the antediluvian period. Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty 2011-05-30T02:00:18.047Z “Where ignorance is bliss, ’tis folly to be wise,” and it is more than probable that they will continue to wear this antediluvian garb for centuries to come. Odd Bits of Travel with Brush and Camera 2011-05-17T02:00:17.310Z In the absence of wood and coal-mines, the habitual fuel of the country was furnished by those vast relics of the antediluvian forests, which abounded in the still partially submerged soil. Hope Benham A Story for Girls 2011-05-16T02:00:18.193Z Unless the Messiah had come in the flesh, this antediluvian sphere would have broken forth and deluged the world of spirits and the world of men.” In Both Worlds 2011-06-08T02:00:17.360Z When her favorite young cousin Beatrix plucked up courage to denounce "antediluvian fashions," the grey old dame seized her by the shoulders and shook her till her teeth chattered. A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z This was adopted unanimously, and the antediluvian meat tax was finally buried amid the rejoicings of all those who cared for their fellow-men. Royal Highness 2011-05-05T02:00:22.363Z Probably the little insect sitting contentedly on its blade of grass, in antediluvian times, when the liquid resin streamed over it, little thought, that it would thus be bequeathed to far-off generations. Ekkehard. Vol. I (of II) A Tale of the Tenth Century 2011-04-14T02:00:55.273Z More than valuables, they hoped to find photographs or other mementos of their antediluvian lives. City, Destroyed and Yet Hopeful, Begins to Move On 2011-04-11T00:17:05Z It was the approaching sphere of the antediluvian spirit. In Both Worlds 2011-06-08T02:00:17.360Z To be sure, most Austrians have such antediluvian ideas! 'Gloria Victis!' A Romance 2011-03-26T02:00:13.597Z "Mr. Seddon, you might live longer than an antediluvian and never hear such a speech again," said the Professor, with impressive solemnity. The Funny Philosophers Wags and Sweethearts 2011-03-19T02:00:11.277Z He was a boy in form, and an antediluvian in feature. The Shepherd's Calendar Volume I (of II) 2011-03-05T03:00:28.153Z The millionaire walked with a heavy tread like a trooper; his big arms stood out from his body like the ribs of some antediluvian animal. More Tales by Polish Authors 2011-03-04T03:01:05.113Z It would strike us forcibly to realize that what seems to us now to be a pillar of heaven, was the patriarch’s stepping-stone from the antediluvian into the postdiluvian world. The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z Jenkins, the antediluvian butler, proves himself a man of his word. Mrs. Geoffrey 2011-02-27T03:00:29.460Z It is hardly the stuff of generations past, those stung by the Great Depression, who held onto antediluvian dishware and stored canned goods until rust formed on the lids. In Recession?s Wake, Frugal Ways Make a Comeback 2011-02-25T17:31:20Z Reinhold, for Heaven's sake, how can you allow your wife such an antediluvian costume? Riven Bonds. Vol. I. A Novel, in Two Volumes 2011-02-16T03:00:38.687Z Drawn up on a narrow sandspit, like some antediluvian monster, lay a black York boat, which was dragged by concerted effort to the water's edge. Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion 2011-02-14T03:00:35.553Z Let’s face it, wars can no longer be won; wars are antediluvian. Dagmar Wilson, Anti-Nuclear Leader, Dies at 94 2011-01-24T05:30:37Z They set the fashion, those great men of the pickaxe and the pistol, and a fine, fire-eating, antediluvian, reckless fashion it was.”—W. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Life on Mars was remade for a US audience with Harvey Keitel playing the antediluvian policeman Gene Hunt. Reborn in the USA 2011-01-12T01:18:22Z A night boat, the ancient Wave, or the antediluvian Foam, took me to Calais, and through some delay on the line there was a wait of hours. London Days A Book of Reminiscences 2011-01-03T03:01:01.297Z Yet he moved lightly and easily from one antediluvian topic to others more antediluvian still. The Wayfarers 2010-12-30T03:00:22.387Z Not a soul to talk to, except three or four antediluvian families.... Dr. Adriaan 2010-12-29T03:00:33.467Z It was a scandal, but Madrid grinned, and the patricians of the antediluvian stem confessed themselves beaten. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z More important, it brought a whole new audience to golf who had previously been discouraged by the antediluvian antics of the people who run the game. More rammies at the Ryder Cup, please 2010-10-02T23:07:00Z The antediluvians are on the run and running should be the word. Leicester remain the team to beat 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z They chanted “Rocky, Rocky Rocky” — not for Sylvester Stallone’s character, but for Rocky Wirtz, the team owner who reversed his father’s antediluvian policies, quickly built a champion and won back a city. The Morning Skate: A Memorable End to Blackhawks Cup Victory 2010-06-11T13:43:00Z Such genome-based forecasting is deemed vastly superior to such antediluvian methods as family history. Why DNA Doesn't Always Predict Disease 2010-05-18T17:31:00Z To the economists, Mrs Thatcher’s approach was positively antediluvian. Buttonwood: Greek chorus of boos 2010-05-06T10:49:00Z Orszag says updating the government's antediluvian computer systems could increase efficiency dramatically. Management 101: What the Democrats Need to Learn 2010-05-06T09:00:00Z Among the antediluvians, sheep were immolated for sacrificial offerings, and their fleeces probably furnished them with clothing. Domestic Animals History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy. The people of Alabama will no longer vote the Democratic ticket simply because the “antediluvian” leaders say so. Politics of Alabama The room was now ornamented in a stiff sort of fashion 21 with brilliant red tidies, afghans, and other things which Dolly considered quite antediluvian. Dolly's College Experiences But vehicles and drivers hardly seemed to share in the general prosperity; both appeared equally shabby, worn-out and antediluvian. Glories of Spain Then she bethought her of going to the piano, where she strummed eight or ten bars of an antediluvian jig over and over again. The Patriot Piccolo Mondo Antico A fossil may be merely the print of a leaf of some prehistoric plant on sandstone, or the footprint of some antediluvian reptile. Unexplored! His leisure was chiefly devoted to the study of what was afterwards called the Stone Age, “antediluvian man,” as he expressed it. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" Not a shriek, not a scream; Scarcely even a howl or a groan, As the man they called “Ho!” told his story of woe In an antediluvian tone. Rhyme? And Reason? The word "antediluvian" meaning "before the flood," is used sometimes in English for things very ancient and out of date. Stories from Tagore To the First Chapter, which turns on Paradise and Fig-leaves, and leads us into interminable disquisitions of a mythological, metaphorical, cabalistico sartorial, and quite antediluvian cast, we shall content ourselves with giving an unconcerned approval. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII Well this is a queer collection!" said Mr. Spenser, laughing; "a regular museum of antediluvian playthings! Tales of the Toys, Told by Themselves We've come to an antediluvian forest—don't you see? a survival. East Angels When the antediluvian rhino lived, the world was peopled with terrible monsters, brutes of great strength and savagery. Harper's Round Table, July 23, 1895 Consequently the earlier revelations of the antediluvian and postdiluvian times must have been the common property of all races, and must have been associated with whatever elements of natural religion they had. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science For one hundred and twenty years God strove with those antediluvians. The Overcoming Life and Other Sermons Probably they were being hunted by some antediluvian Siwash and got bogged in a quicksand. Harper's Round Table, May 28, 1895 "Is this the impression of an antediluvian bird's claw?" he asked. Black Diamonds The Idaho, and all her crew, had passed through a space-time fault into an antediluvian world! The Lost Warship These characteristics befit men who had to contend with the mammoth and his contemporaries, and to subdue the then vast wildernesses of the eastern continent, and they correspond with the Biblical characteristics of antediluvian man. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science We can have no idea of the extent and character of that antediluvian wickedness. The Overcoming Life and Other Sermons And most of the things were such queer shapes that they would have done for almost anything—Roman or Greek, or even Egyptian or antediluvian, or household milk-jugs of the cave-men, Albert's uncle said. The Wouldbegoods Humboldt declared that in the antediluvian world no apes had ever lived, for the reason that the fossil of an ape had never been found. Black Diamonds What a sweet atmosphere of womanly gracefulness spread itself like a perfume through those old salons, whose dusty curtains and moth-eaten chairs looked like the fossils of some antediluvian furniture! Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands The Bible record would lead us to regard the earlier and gigantic men as antediluvian, and the smaller or Lappish race as postdiluvian. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science When Job lost his family, there came a messenger to him: but there came no messenger from the antediluvians; not even Noah himself could see the world perish. The Overcoming Life and Other Sermons Was this a strange sea monster that was going to contest with him the supremacy of the seas, or was it some of his antediluvian ancestors come back to earth, I mean to sea, again? The Frontier Boys in the Sierras Or, The Lost Mine While he was making investigations as to the probability of animal life existing in the antediluvian strata of coal-mines, he was blind to the danger of a rival company close to his own factory. Black Diamonds It looks as if some monstrous antediluvian race had cut two or three stories of doors and windows into the living rock, in order to make themselves palaces to dwell in. The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries Still Egypt, even under the old monarchy, presents evidence of the continuation of antediluvian culture. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science From antediluvian times the demons appear to have been attracted by the daughters of men and to have come frequently up to earth to pay court to them. Devil Stories An Anthology According to the epic of it, humanity's primal home was a paradise where ten impressive persons—the models, it may be, of antediluvian patriarchs—reigned interminably, agreeably also, finally sinfully as well. The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal Noah was a preacher of righteousness to the antediluvians, yet he got drunk after the flood. The Negro: what is His Ethnological Status? 2nd Ed. He is a shore frequenter, especially when young, and I cannot help thinking that in antediluvian days when mastodons were plentiful and went wading they stepped on the flounders. Old Plymouth Trails Perhaps a dread of the total decay and loss of the surviving antediluvian arts in construction and other matters may have been one impelling motive to the building of Babel. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science And Spinoza's doctrine of necessity maintains that all events are determined by their proper causes, not that everything is immediately caused by some antediluvian event. The Philosophy of Spinoza There was a story of creation, another of antediluvian kings and of the punishment that overtook them. The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal It appears from the Bible, that this Nimrod was not entirely cured, by the flood, of this antediluvian love for and miscegenation with negroes. The Negro: what is His Ethnological Status? 2nd Ed. Literary Follies, instances of various in the fantastical composition of verses, i. 293-307; strange researches made in antediluvian times to be classed with, 301-303; anecdote of a malicious one, ib.; various anecdotes concerning, 301-307. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 We have still to consider what remains exist of antediluvian man. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science The only people who complained were those survivals of far past ages whose antediluvian notions accord so ill with the progressive spirit of our times. The Message and the Man: Some Essentials of Effective Preaching And as disease is not mentioned as a part of the cause, we have reason to believe that the antediluvians were strangers to this evil. Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery I seemed to have come to the home of some sort of antediluvian bailiff…. Letters from my Windmill What a pity it is that Noah did not occupy some of his leisure time, during the centuries he lived after his exit from the ark, in writing a typography of the antediluvian world! Bible Romances First Series They give us reason to suspect that the principle of the first empire was an imitation of the antediluvian world, and that its arts and customs were mainly derived from that source. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science Among other enormities of the antediluvian world was the fondness shown by the sons of God for the daughters of men. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) A son of Heaven and not of man, Yima united the characteristics that Genesis divides between Adam and Noah, fathers both, the one of antediluvian, the other of postdiluvian humanity. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 The general opinion is, that the blue lead occupies the bed of a large antediluvian river, which ran parallel with the Sacramento and about sixty miles eastward of it. Hittel on Gold Mines and Mining It gives us the age of Adam at his death, and the ages of the other antediluvian patriarchs. Bible Romances First Series Not a shriek, not a scream, Scarcely even a howl or a groan, As the man they called “Ho!” told his story of woe In an antediluvian tone. The Hunting of the Snark an Agony, in Eight Fits Gigantic as antediluvian ferns, as evil-smelling and as dangerous, music in the hands of this magician is dowered with ambiguous attitudes, with anonymous gestures, is color become sound, sensuality in the mask of Beauty. Melomaniacs Shandon ran to his cabin to get a gun which he kept always loaded; the doctor seized his arms, and made ready to fire at the beast, which by its size, recalled antediluvian monsters. The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras This idea that the blue lead occupies the bed of an antediluvian river is however not universally accepted. Hittel on Gold Mines and Mining The house is modern, and even the arch without much pretension to antiquity; but the family stretching far back into the gloom of ages, and lineal ancestors of the antediluvian patriarchs. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 The poor Hippopotamus did look antediluvian among all the smart cars and carriages assembled! The Lightning Conductor Discovers America Old Andrew Johnstone was ruining the rising generation, he explained, and it was time somebody showed him that he and his old-fashioned ideas were antediluvian. Duncan Polite The Watchman of Glenoro In fact, one might well think it was an immense crowd of antediluvian animals, such as might have lived near the Pole. The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras The bones and teeth of wolves are often discovered, as I have already said, amongst the débris of the antediluvian world. Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches The huge tortoises slowly carrying their great bodies about, appeared like strange antediluvian animals. Life of Charles Darwin It reminded me of the sage Shalum in Addison's antediluvian tale, who became wealthy by the sale of his great trees, two centuries after he had planted them. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland Like the Scandinavian legend, it represents the antediluvians as giants, all of whom, save one, became exceedingly impious and depraved. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed She doesn't know any one, to be sure, and would probably dress like an antediluvian. A Romantic Young Lady The laboratory study, the bug business, we shall get rid of, and we shall get rid of some antediluvian ways that hamper our educational development yet. The Battle with the Slum The Arabs have a fable that the Great Pyramid was built by antediluvian kings, and alone, of all the works of men, bore the weight of the Flood. Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) Rain antediluvian would not have stayed me in doors—not if it had threatened the drowning of the world! The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness Pausanius, Philostratus, Pliny and several other writers give us accounts of the remains of gigantic bodies which have been found in the earth, serving in some degree to confirm Moses' account of the antediluvian giants. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life The antediluvian turnips were better than afterward the melons, oranges or pomegranates. Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood Upon his forehead sat a golden throne, The massy metal twisted into shapes Grotesque, antediluvian, such as move In myth or have their broken images Sealed in the stony middle of the hills. Gloucester Moors and Other Poems Yes, it was a taxi, an antediluvian one, but she must not be critical. Juggernaut The other came from a policeman, patiently poking with his club at the vent of one of the antediluvian sewers, which had—as usual—become blocked. McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. In the dim light they looked like men sitting on some antediluvian animal with long limbs, swimming out to a cold dismal nightmare country. The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories Here evidently he does not speak only of the antediluvians. Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood The antediluvian world was a failure; the Jewish work was a failure; man has been a failure everywhere, when he has had his own way and been left to himself. That Gospel Sermon on the Blessed Hope Alas if such an antediluvian barbarian be permitted to "revisit thus the glimpses of the moon, making night hideous" as he mutters his horrid blasphemy! Moon Lore The “spirits” were the antediluvians; for they were those who were disobedient in the days of Noah. Modern Spiritualism Millions were suddenly cut off, with their handiwork and antediluvian civilisation. The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 To the godly nothing can yield more grace and joy than these antediluvian records. Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood We, a handful of Omarians of those antediluvian days, were perhaps all the more intense in our cult because we believed it to be esoteric. Old Familiar Faces The Antediluvians.—Can you or any of your learned correspondents inform me of any work likely to assist me in my researches into the antediluvian history of our race? Notes and Queries, Number 78, April 26, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc I am not thinking of such courtship as took place in the antediluvian days.' The Old Helmet, Volume II I have only tried it with Confucius, but it is more difficult; it is as if an antediluvian armadillo tried to dance. Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities The ten antediluvian patriarchs belonging to the lineage of Christ, with their descendants, are enumerated. Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood The support of some antediluvian servant or pet? Antony Gray,—Gardener In an age less remote than Dr. Johnson's, although still antediluvian with respect to the now prevailing flood of juvenile literature, children often read and liked what they did not understand. Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 The antediluvians might have afforded to be a little profligate in this direction, but the man who would fulfill his high destiny in this age has no time to lose. Autobiography of Frank G. Allen, Minister of the Gospel and Selections from his Writings Did He forget faithful Noah when judgments were visited upon the antediluvian world? The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan The monster of the antediluvian world, the mammoth, must have been an inhabitant of this country, since many of its bones have been found here. A New Voyage Round the World, in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26, Vol. 2 The antediluvians had been made long-lived in order that they might have large families and people an empty earth, while life was divinely shortened as the world filled up. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill By correlating Posterior to Sensory, thus: Posterior … Post-Mortem … Insensible … Sensory; or Anterior to Motor, thus: Anterior … Ant … disturbed anthill … commotion … Motor; or Anterior … antediluvian … rush of water … water-power … Motor. Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget Imposing as they certainly looked, and heavier though they were than most of those with which the world's famous sea-fights have been fought, they were already antediluvian. From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life At a distance it looked like one of those horrible antediluvian monsters one reads of, with a lank body, about thirty feet long. The Wild Man of the West A Tale of the Rocky Mountains Yet Michael knew that to Freddy the whole thing was a waste of time and an antediluvian affair. There was a King in Egypt Happily, the fatal hammer of the Speaker put down the venerable antediluvian, before he got to the end of the chapter. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 On turning back, while on the steps, the children could see that, besides their own party, the train had contained a number of other strange animals, some of whom, the Archæopteryx whispered, impressively, were “antediluvians.” Dick, Marjorie and Fidge A Search for the Wonderful Dodo Compared to the bare plain of Waterloo, Cedar Mountain was like the antediluvian world, when the surface was broken by volcanic fire into chasms and abysses. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War Presently its outline became more defined, and it turned out to be a canoe instead of an antediluvian monster, with Big Waller and Bounce acting the part of legs to it. The Wild Man of the West A Tale of the Rocky Mountains Someone once called hydrogen the “cockroach element,” since, like that antediluvian insect, the molecules of H2 can insidiously infiltrate themselves into places where they are not only unwelcome, but shouldn’t even be able to go. Unwise Child We saw columnar forms supporting others that lay horizontally: vast boulders of trap-rock, suggesting the idea of some antediluvian ruin, some temple of gigantic Druids! The Scalp Hunters I always knew he was extinct, but I had no idea he was antediluvian as well. Dick, Marjorie and Fidge A Search for the Wonderful Dodo I resembled a being of one of the antediluvian eras, when I came to land, finally, and might have been taken for a slimy Iguanodon. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War The greater part of it was the ancient bed of a mountain torrent, whose gushing waters had, owing to some antediluvian convulsion of nature, been diverted into another channel. The Wild Man of the West A Tale of the Rocky Mountains It was like a stray vista of some antediluvian world. The Island Treasure This tradition tells us that the hygienic benefits of circumcision were recognized antediluvian facts, as it also points out the way by which circumcision traveled westward across to the Western World. History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance Rather different to the measly rasher and the antediluvian eggs from the grocer's opposite. Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden Captain Kyd's buried booty would have been worse trash to him than Iago's stolen purse, beside this unearthed deposit of an antediluvian age. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 It looks like a troop of antediluvian animals, those that were supposed to inhabit the Pole. The English at the North Pole Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras Its deviser is, more than likely, as undiscoverable as the name of the valiant antediluvian who first tasted an oyster. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. "These antediluvian attachments," thinks he, "are always severe." Molly Bawn These dear, good people are quite out of the world—they are antediluvians. Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden It stood against the intensely lit sky and stream like the skeleton of some antediluvian monster, then vanished into Stygian darkness. The Long Roll The doctor armed himself, and held himself in readiness to fire upon an animal which, by its dimensions, recalled the antediluvian quadrupeds. The English at the North Pole Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras Observe the “antediluvian” shape of the bat—no paddings on the legs. Pickwickian Manners and Customs We seem to be reading of some antediluvian giant, rather than of a medieval conqueror. Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity It was a hot, moist country, where huge antediluvian animals lived in reedy swamps and dank forests. The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria This way of speaking has a strangely antediluvian sound. Hudson Bay There are ships here of every shape and size—from the little coasting-vessel to the great East Indiaman, which, in its unfinished condition, looks like the skeleton of some dire megatherium of the antediluvian world. Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships He was on his way to the Nore, where the Great Eastern lay, like an antediluvian macaroni-eater, gorging itself with innumerable miles of Atlantic Cable. The Battery and the Boiler Adventures in Laying of Submarine Electric Cables He both imagined and believed throughout; he projected himself, like a sleep-walker, into the mammoth caves of his antediluvian dreams, and lived among his own radiant and shadowy creations. Milton One of the young ladies guessed it to be the petrifaction of an antediluvian mussel. Gryll Grange Frequently the telescope revealed projecting from the cliffs the bones of the megatherion, mastodon, milodon, and other huge antediluvian animals, of which, however, neither Jack nor Terence knew the names. The Three Lieutenants The keel has just been laid on the blocks; and it will take many a long day of clinching and sawing and hammering ere that infant assumes the bristling appearance of an antediluvian skeleton. Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships Oliver said it looked quite like an antediluvian animal. In the Eastern Seas These individuals happened to reach an almost antediluvian longevity, thanks to their inherited vitality and their listless, uneventful, monotonous lives. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 The flood did happen, otherwise, how could the existence of antediluvian animals be explained? A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections The specimens of precious stones were curious, and I was pleased to see amber containing perfect insects, perhaps antediluvian insects. Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland Again, he says, “The animals living to-day have been derived by a series of uninterrupted generations from the extinct animals of the antediluvian world.” Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work From Eau Claire the mail bag took off in the antediluvian Convair but I took off by train because the bag was scheduled to be dropped by guided glider into Ladysmith. Highways in Hiding The antediluvian waiters come in to lay the table presently, and I ordered peaches and grapes and some very special chablis—I felt exultant at my having manoeuvred that Miss Sharp should eat with me! Man and Maid I have wondered at the patience of the antediluvians; their libraries were insufficiently furnished; how then could seven or eight hundred years of life be supportable?—Cowper, Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) There is here no thought of evolution; in later years, however, his researches upon fossil crocodilians led him to consider the possibility that the living species were descended from the antediluvian. Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology The antediluvians plowed with a forked stick, with one prong for the beam and the other for the scratcher; and the plow boy and his sleepy ox had no choice of prongs to hitch to. Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales The ages of the antediluvian patriarchs, for instance, are accurately rendered into verse. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" "This is antediluvian paper," said he, "thick as parchment; it must have lain for some centuries in this magic hut." Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag The period of history in which he most delighted was the antediluvian—probably because it afforded the widest field for speculation. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) Each new theory placed the tombstone upon the preceding, and inscribed it with the brief record of the antediluvian, "and he died." Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity This is chiefly due to the antediluvian custom of dividing the Government educational grant on a denominational basis. Le Petit Nord or, Annals of a Labrador Harbour Evidently they had scarcely ever seen a motor-car, for they glared at us as if we were antediluvian animals. My Friend the Chauffeur There is no real difference between the capacity of men now and that of the antediluvian world; the ground of disparity lies in the time of development afforded the present generation. History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology And have we not seen women whose hideous shape and fiendish spirit suggested an alliance with antediluvian monsters? The Friendships of Women Some traces may perhaps be discernable in their rites and mysteries of the antediluvian system: but those very few, and hardly perceptible. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. Vesta felt her blood chill a moment as her visitor re-entered with the antediluvian hat, and placed it upon the table beneath the lamp. The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times Bending over the mark in the rock, nodding their heads together, pointing with their awkwardly accoutred arms, they looked like an assemblage of antediluvian monsters collected around their prey. Edison's Conquest of Mars We who walk, make the best use of our staves; and so the whole party begin to labor upward over the snow—as if they were toiling to the summit of an antediluvian Twelfth-cake. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two I am not in love with you even in an antediluvian way. Robin It may have been an antediluvian Coney Island, for all the world knows. The Idiot "Providence appears to have designed the preservation in this vast and mysterious hothouse of antediluvian plants, to prove the sagacity of learned men in figuring them so marvelously on paper." A Journey to the Centre of the Earth Cease, old man; come off your antediluvian boasting; Doubtless our grandpas could all play the game as well as they knew how. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) The inhabitants of the antediluvian world, as a consequence of man's first transgression, fell lower and lower in the scale of good morals. Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro There's a touch of the antediluvian about it that I like. The Swindler and Other Stories The enterprise would have appeared quite as visionary as that of Noah to the antediluvians in building his ark against an anticipated inundation. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 2, February, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy "But, Uncle, if these antediluvian animals formerly lived in these subterranean regions, what more likely than that one of these monsters may at this moment be concealed behind one of yonder mighty rocks." A Journey to the Centre of the Earth As they carried it off, one was reminded of some immense antediluvian reptile crawling slowly over the portage trail. The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure They are Bill and Jim from South Melbourne let loose upon the antediluvian landscape, strolling up it, yawning. Letters from France These solemn-looking turbaned Indians might be tending the first uncouth monsters of engineering—the antediluvians of machinery. A Dweller in Mesopotamia Being the Adventures of an Official Artist in the Garden of Eden I have become heartily 'fed up' with the dirty antediluvian place. At Ypres with Best-Dunkley I thought I saw on the surface of the water those enormous antediluvian turtles as big as floating islands. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth Now I am sure you are the identical white pigeon that Noah let out of the ark; for nothing less antediluvian could ask such obsolete, such utterly dead and buried questions! Infelice The vehicle was a queer old affair, that looked as if it had been dug out of some antediluvian stable yard. The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales Prickles's fancy had so turned, not lightly, for he was of an ancient and antediluvian race, heavy in thought, but certainly to love. The Way of the Wild Another difficulty relates to the age of the antediluvian patriarchs, which was about tenfold the present term of life for robust and healthful men. Companion to the Bible I thought, such was the effect of my imagination, that I saw this whole tribe of antediluvian creatures. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth These would appear antediluvian alongside the latest underwater monster, but, nevertheless, one of these accomplished a feat such as no German submarine has ever approached. "Over There" with the Australians They were all attired in red coats, of one sort or another, though some of which were of a very antediluvian, and others of a very dressing-gown cut. Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour The celebrated Og, king of Bashan, it seems, was one of the antediluvians, and was saved by riding on the back of the unicorn. Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers We hear nothing, see nothing, become nothing, and our system becomes fossilized, antediluvian. Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope Am I, then, an inhabitant of the earth of the present day, destined to find myself face to face with a representative of this antediluvian family? A Journey to the Centre of the Earth There can be very little doubt that in this conclusion he was practically correct, and that the real fine old crusted antediluvian toad-in-a-hole is really a snare and a delusion. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science But why am I dosing you with these antediluvian topics? Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 He found me in a retirement I doat on, living like an antediluvian patriarch among my children and grandchildren, and tilling my soil. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 Moloch and Dagon themselves appear no longer as incarnate fiends, but as the spiritual counterparts of antediluvian monsters; and Milton's treatment of the Olympian deities jars upon us who remember his obligations to them. Life of John Milton "Then let us steer more to the westward, for we know what we have to expect from antediluvian animals," was my eager reply. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth Did you ever offer the workmen who found it a nominal reward—say five shillings—for the first perfectly unanswerable specimen of a genuine unadulterated antediluvian toad? Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science In Egypt Ra, the sun god, was an antediluvian king, and he was followed by Osiris. Myths of Babylonia and Assyria History whispers from her antediluvian lips of a race of giants; so does the earth reveal mammoths and stupendous forests. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 Bluebell had treated herself to a smart little portmanteau for the cabin, being rather ashamed of her antediluvian luggage. Bluebell A Novel His countenance presents the extraordinary appearance of an antediluvian man, a true contemporary of the Megatherium. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth Only it was a very remote flood; an antediluvian age separated from our own not by thousands, but by millions, of seasons. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Some of the younger trawlers would jeeringly refer to her behind her back as "Auntie," and affected to regard her as an antediluvian old dowager, which of course was mainly due to jealousy. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-28 How can you expect those antediluvians to be anything but tough? Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. “I’m afraid I’m outclassed by these antediluvians,” he said. The Pursuit of the House-Boat Being Some Further Account of the Divers Doings of the Associated Shades, under the Leadership of Sherlock Holmes, Esq. In his hand was a branch of a tree, which served as a crook for this antediluvian shepherd. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth He placed a chair for him, and asked him smilingly, what he wanted "with an antediluvian journalist." His Excellency the Minister If it should prove serious, what a thing it will be for her! and these antediluvians, in their dotage, will do such ridiculous things. The Unseen Bridgegroom or, Wedded For a Week While the painters went on producing their antediluvian forms, the sculptors saw things much more as we do,—yet the paintings seemed the most life-like. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 The music, or the discordance that went by that name, was furnished by two cowboys with banjos and an antediluvian gentleman with a fiddle. The Rustlers of Pecos County Then what can it be—unless it be the weapon of some antediluvian warrior," I continued, "of some living man, a contemporary of that mighty shepherd from whom we have just escaped? A Journey to the Centre of the Earth The Chaldeans, the Egyptians, the Chinese, the Hindoos, Gauls, and Peruvians, each regarded themselves as the inventors of astronomy, an honour which Josephus deprives them of by ascribing it to the antediluvian patriarchs. Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects Pa gave an antediluvian chuckle that sounded like a magical and appalling rattle from the inner recesses of his person. Nocturne They soon turned my head with a system of antediluvian deluges which they have invented to prove the eternity of matter.... Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) The candle stands, with spindle legs, wore an antediluvian look, and the chairs were just as queer. Idle Hour Stories He stood in the presence of an endless, wondrous, and inexhaustibly rich collection of antediluvian monsters, piled up for his own private and peculiar satisfaction. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth Together with the cottage,—a sorry, antediluvian makeshift of a building, you may think it,—what was of much more importance, a fine litter of newborn pigs, no less than nine in number, perished. McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader But when the vast term allowed to antediluvian sinners was expired, he swept off a race who had been disobedient while long suffering mercy waited with them. Sermons on Various Important Subjects By the preaching of the faithful Noah the Spirit plead with the antediluvians to do right and escape the destruction that was coming upon a corrupt and wicked world. The Spirit and the Word A Treatise on the Holy Spirit in the Light of a Rational Interpretation of the Word of Truth The Noah of the Chaldeans was commanded in a dream not only to build a ship, but to bury all important documents and so preserve the antediluvian history. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 Antediluvian man—antediluvian nature, is to be imaged as nobler in every respect, more sublime and more pure than postdiluvian man, and postdiluvian nature. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843 I suppose that now a man in forty years will have as many vexations and annoyances and hardships and trials and temptations as those antediluvians had in four hundred years. Around The Tea-Table Such is said to have been the state of antediluvian sinners, when the spirit had ceased to strive with them, agreeably to the threatening. Sermons on Various Important Subjects There are old Chinese drawings of pterodactyls, and suchlike unchancey antediluvian wild fowl. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Colossal bones of antediluvian mammalia in the upper alluvium. COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 But mighty energies, when abused, produce mighty corruptions; hence the gigantic scale of the sins into which the antediluvian men fell; and the terrible precipitation of humanity which followed. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843 Tear away the old sofa, ragged and spring-broken, on which the pastors of forty years have been obliged to sit, and see whether there are any cats in your antediluvian pulpit. Around The Tea-Table Pity they were not preserved as a remnant of the antediluvian period, ere the ancient tenures were merged in floods of blood. The Land-War In Ireland (1870) A History For The Times The business of the ranch was the antediluvian occupation of rearing and shearing sheep, and to that end the village included a shearing-shed and a large wool-house. Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 I felt as if we were inside the skeleton of some antediluvian monster whose huge black ribs completely enfolded us. The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories What herds, by thousands and millions, of those mighty creatures whose skeletons we discover, from time to time, in the wreck of the antediluvian globe! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 If eight hundred years did not make antediluvians any better, but only made them worse, the ages of eternity could have no effect except prolongation of depravity. New Tabernacle Sermons A sorry antediluvian makeshift of a building you may think it.—Lamb. An English Grammar He is an antediluvian with regard to the British dominion in Bengal. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12) The precipices on either side of the river belong to the Elk Ridge, through which, at some antediluvian period, the colossal current has hewed its way. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 He shook my hand with grave politeness, and pointing to a huge arm-chair of antediluvian make, invited me to be seated. Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories He sheds a lustre on the antediluvian age, and he shines still as an example to all generations of steady and lofty piety. Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters A plate of porridge was a thing of the past; and milk of course was an antediluvian quantity! The Siege of Kimberley You and Mary are quite antediluvian in your idea. The Lamp in the Desert You must know, subjects, that in antediluvian times, the Spermaceti whale was much hunted by sportsmen, that being accounted better pastime, than pursuing the Behemoths on shore. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II All of us have monarchs and sages for kinsmen; nay, angels and archangels for cousins; since in antediluvian days, the sons of God did verily wed with our mothers, the irresistible daughters of Eve. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I Even angels did not fully know the work of grace and salvation which Christ accomplished for man, and it is not likely that the spirits of departed antediluvians and patriarchs understood its greatness. Exposition of the Apostles Creed Was ever such usage made before of an antediluvian monster? Aftermath The park and house is still owned by two antediluvian spinsters of the name of La Sarthe—exquisite specimens of Early Victorian gentility. Halcyone To throw more than a cursory glance at them Would lead me into interminable disquisitions of a mythological, anthropological, craniological, and antediluvian nature for which one would not find universal approval among his readers. Across China on Foot "What can I do for you?" he asked a lady in an antediluvian mantle, whose back view was extremely suggestive of a huge dung-beetle. The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories It would seem to imply that Christ in the spirit carried a special message to the antediluvians who had been disobedient and had perished in the Flood. Exposition of the Apostles Creed "Don't know any more about it than about the antediluvians." The American Baron My mother's wardrobe demanded an extensive addition,—for, sooth to say, her costume had become, as far as fashion went, rather antediluvian. International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850 We sit here to feed at a place called Siao-shui-tsing, a sorry antediluvian make-shift of a building, where in subsequent travel I was hung up in bitter weather and had to pass the night. Across China on Foot How can you charge upon the present generation of pagans the same culpability that Paul imputed to their ancestors eighteen centuries ago, and that Noah the preacher of righteousness denounced, upon the antediluvian pagan? Sermons to the Natural Man "It's some sort of antediluvian reptile, isn't it?" The Firm of Girdlestone It was this same extreme heat which explains the prodigious exuberance of the antediluvian creation! Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories She might as well consider him an antediluvian at once! The Purple Heights The whole of this neighborhood abounds in remains of the antediluvian world: they are found not only in considerable quantity, but in great perfection. Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 2 I dare say the place does look antediluvian to young eyes.” The Three Brides The sight of these remnants of antediluvian woodlands made history seem the reminiscence of a child. Overland One dark night some gypsies stole our antediluvian horse and cow. The Gentleman from Everywhere It is a sort of antediluvian age, in which there were evidently stupendous mechanical powers of some kind, and an extensive acquaintance with some things. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 55, May, 1862 So did the antediluvians doubt Noah, until the day in which the flood came and swept them away. A Social History of the American Negro Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States. Including A History and Study of the Republic of Liberia The Primitive Freemasonry of the antediluvians is a term for which we are indebted to Oliver, although the theory was broached by earlier writers, and among them by the Chevalier Ramsay. The Symbolism of Freemasonry She can bear the keenest glances of the microscope, and to see all her glory would exhaust an antediluvian life. The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 2 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes A scholar on whom the antediluvian length of life necessary for such a labor had been bestowed might also be endowed with commensurate powers of intellect that might lead to the most astonishing results. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 I shall not even hint, whether if it ever took place, it was in antediluvian ages, or during the Babylonian, Grecian, or Roman glory; or in more modern times. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 343, November 29, 1828 What a continuous stream of wheezes, unintelligible for the most part, of antediluvian puns, of pure nonsense at which he laughs so heartily that it is difficult not to laugh with him. The Adventures of a Special Correspondent The Primitive Freemasonry was probably without ritual or symbolism, and consisted only of a series of abstract propositions derived from antediluvian traditions. The Symbolism of Freemasonry I send you, also, some specimens, one from the catacombs of Paris, others from the great excavations of Maestricht, where such large antediluvian remains have been found, also relics from the field of Waterloo. Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers It was a bold, not to say preposterous, idea to conceive even antediluvian trees, with branches strong enough to bear animals as large as elephants. The Voyage of the Beagle He let it be believed, that the spirit in his sword had custody of the elixir of life, by means of which he could make any one live to be as old as the antediluvians. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 And most of the things were such queer shapes that they should have done for almost anything—Roman or Greek, or even Egyptian or antediluvian, or household milk-jugs of the cavemen, Albert's uncle said. The Wouldbegoods I am inclined to think that it was made up of abstract propositions, derived from antediluvian traditions. The Symbolism of Freemasonry They are plunging into the shoreless realm of psychology in search of information that was trite in antediluvian times. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 These huge reptiles, surrounded by the black lava, the leafless shrubs, and large cacti, seemed to my fancy like some antediluvian animals. The Voyage of the Beagle Presently he was pouring out to me all the woes of the crofter—woes that seemed so antediluvian and forgotten that I listened as one would listen to an old song. Mr. Standfast Such are the ``Mountain of Miseries''; the antediluvian novel of ``Shalum and Hilpa''; the ``Reflections by Moonlight on the Divine Perfections.'' The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 But this hard body might be a bony covering, like that of the antediluvian animals; and I should be free to class this monster among amphibious reptiles, such as tortoises or alligators. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea The truth is—while I wouldn't think of letting him know—he's a tremendous nuisance pottering about the countingrooms with his stories of antediluvian trading voyages. Java Head Between her eyes and upper lip, Miss Hoag looked her just-turned twenty; beyond them, she was antediluvian, deluged, smothered beneath the creamy billows and billows of self. Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It That chieftain took from the little dwarf the horn of a gigantic and antediluvian elk. Vivian Grey There the antediluvian and patriarchal saints associate with those of later times, imbibing one spirit, coalescing upon one principle, meeting in one sacred spot, conjoined in one fraternal band! Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I All in my good time, my antediluvian friend. The Black Bag To be sure he is like some great antediluvian grasshopper, and seems capable of spanning this almost boundless continent at a leap. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 12, June 18, 1870 However, after all, this was a long, long while ago, and in a period almost antediluvian. The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking I am already an antediluvian, and instead of a stag bounding by that wood I witness the moving mass of a mammoth. Vivian Grey The longevity of ancient times, and especially of the antediluvians, naturally excites surprise; but what a dream is human life, even at its most protracted period! Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I The Bat, an animal of an antediluvian type, comes out at the same time, and assists in lessening these multitudinous swarms. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 When Ham, in his antediluvian recklessness, laughed at his father, God took occasion to give to the world the rule of the superior over the inferior. Slavery Ordained of God He waved his maulstick vaguely, as if in reference to the professorial practice of Munich, or to the antediluvian school of England. With the Procession Can you conceive anything sublimer than the gigantic shadows and the grim wreck of an antediluvian world? Vivian Grey Little Patou, like a double-tailed serpent rearing himself upright on his tail tips, appeared at first a creature remote, of some antediluvian race--until he talked a familiar, disarming patter with his human, disarming grin. The Mountebank Yes, there is no denying that it looks artistic; the burnous is picturesque, like many antediluvian things. Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia The first cycle included the antediluvians—Noah and the faithful going to the first heaven, and the wicked of that age to the first hell. The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation And when, failing foes, they came together, they became entangled, piercing, cleaving, twining round each other like antediluvian monsters. Jean-Christophe Journey's End In my mind, he is always associated rather with his buffaloes, those great, unwieldy, hairless, slate-coloured docile, intelligent antediluvians. Behind the Bungalow My own gave an account of the President's visit to Boston, the Bunker Hill Celebration, and other events of that antediluvian date. Journal of an African Cruiser The incident I propose to relate occurred in antediluvian times, when there were giants in the earth who lived a thousand years. Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World I like to know the manners of my time—contemporary gossip, not antediluvian. Daniel Deronda He wandered in the vast Campagna, near the ruddy Tiber, thick with mud, like moving earth,—and along the ruined aqueducts, like the gigantic vertebrae of antediluvian monsters. Jean-Christophe Journey's End All these divine books, except the four last, they agree to be now entirely lost, and their contents unknown; though the Sabians have several books which they attribute to some of the antediluvian prophets. The Koran (Al-Qur'an) "And I like your talk about your antediluvian 'time.'" The Awkward Age An ecclesiastical writer has proved that Calabria was inhabited before the Noachian flood; and Rossano, we may be sure, was one of the favourite haunts of the antediluvians. Old Calabria We found a "restaurant" where we lunched off a tin of antediluvian Spanish sardines, some mouldy sweet biscuits, and black wine. Alone They would be taken, not for a local variety, but for an antediluvian or prehistoric type, from which the present races of man had arisen by gradual degeneration. Autobiographical Sketches Then came a journey on the top of the antediluvian horse-tram, a sort of diligence on rails; and then a whole summer's afternoon among the prawns. Not George Washington — an Autobiographical Novel He boasts also of the elixir of life, by means of which he could prolong the life of man to the age of the antediluvians. Lives of the Necromancers And so we can reach out our hands across all the centuries to this pre- Noachian, antediluvian patriarch, dim amongst the mists, and feel that he too is our brother. Expositions of Holy Scripture Indeed the one spark of life in the pathetic old society was its real interest in the antediluvian and prehistoric. The Romance of Zion Chapel [3d ed.] The old skin looks more like that of a huge antediluvian species in comparison with the other. Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter But though this antediluvian dinner hour is rejected by modern Commodores and Captains, it still lingers among "the people" under their command. White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War In confirmation of this pleasing fact, he made a very striking statement in reference to the earliest work of antediluvian art. Miscellaneous Essays Second, if the petrified animals that I have seen in various European museums may not have been the victims of some antediluvian saint?” The Reign of Greed Lastly, in the gardens are to be seen life-size reproductions of antediluvian monsters, megatheriums, dinotheriums, and others. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 1 Great Britain and Ireland, part 1 What remains of the antediluvian world?--not even a spike of Noah's ark, larger and stronger than any modern ship. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 06 Renaissance and Reformation They feasted and married and were given in marriage, like the antediluvians. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 04 Imperial Antiquity Near to the spot was seen the last of the antediluvian race, exclusive of those who were saved in the ark of Noah. Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 "Anything in moderation is tolerable," returned Helen, "I cannot say that I admire the extremely fashionable young man but I must say that I cannot appreciate the young man of antediluvian aspect." Marguerite Verne I had had the idea that a diligence was a rickety, slow-moulded antediluvian nondescript, toiling patiently along over impassable roads at a snail's pace. Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 Miles and miles of a desolate sandbank lay like a huge amphibious reptile of some antediluvian age, with its scales glistening in shining colours. Sadhana : the realisation of life They are lectured on the antediluvians, on the Milky Way, on the Siamese, Japanese, North Pole, on all the ologies; on the literature, modes of thought, and modes of life, of extinct races. A Domestic Problem : Work and Culture in the Household I had had the idea that a diligence was a ricketty, slow- moulded antediluvian nondescript, toiling patiently along over impassable roads at a snail's pace. Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe The music of the ancient Aryans is an antediluvian plant, no doubt, but nevertheless it is well worth studying, and deserves every consideration. From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan Once there was, among my presents, a large illustrated book treating of the antediluvian world. The Story of a Child The young men gazed on his large form and powerful make, as upon some antediluvian giant who had survived the destruction of the Flood. Waverley Novels — Volume 12 "Your ancestors in an antediluvian dance," she mocked the young people, as she stepped out; for she and Graham had the floor to themselves. The Little Lady of the Big House A creature with an antediluvian lower jaw, hairy like a mastodon, and formed like a pre-historic ape, has laid this table. Victory An Island Tale The limestone caves of Jubblepore are a true ossuary of antediluvian India; they are full of skeletons of monstrous animals, now disappeared for ever. From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan "I'd sooner walk than take my chances in an antediluvian rattle-trap like that," said the tall wayfarer, bending quite close to her ear. Green Fancy I came nearer and nearer to them through the village, and approached the great iron gate with the antediluvian monsters on the top of its stone pillars. Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood Mr. David Lynde lived in a set of chambers up town, and dined at his club, where he usually passed the evenings at chess with some brother antediluvian. The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel And even the most ancient-looking of the sculptures showed no creatures of the air; only huge, antediluvian monsters were ever depicted. The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life We cast one more sorrowful look at the caves, and returned to our antediluvian carriages. From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan For my part, I entertain to them a sentiment very like respect, resulting from my belief that they belong to antediluvian races. The Physiology of Taste At the head of an ice-tongue that nearly closed the gap through which we might enter the open space was a wave-worn berg shaped like some curious antediluvian monster, an icy Cerberus guarding the way. South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition He had had what he described as an antediluvian sandwich the previous day at two o'clock, since which banquet no food had passed his lips. The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel Now suppose a certain state of facts, facts for example of antediluvian planetary history, concerning which the question may be asked: 'Shall the truth about them ever be known?' Meaning of Truth All round the skull, and on the floor of the portico there were heaps of white flowers, which, though not quite antediluvian, were totally unknown to us. From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan This, if anything, seems to have been an antediluvian conception; for we find primitive men thinking that almost everything is significant and can exert influence of some sort. Pragmatism This great age relegates him to the era of the antediluvians, or their immediate descendants, among whom such extreme ages were said to have been common. Ragnarok : the Age of Fire and Gravel Several hundred pelicans, those antediluvian birds, made their appearance upon the water early this morning, but seeing us they flew away before a shot could be fired. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, To be sure, it is very kind in an author to promise one the history of a country town, and give one a circumstantial account of the antediluvian world into the bargain. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Any large accumulation of vessels or guns is sure to contain much that will be useless, unfitting, antediluvian, when it comes to be tried. The English Constitution I am such a fossil that I permit myself the most antediluvian remarks—if I think they have a grain of truth in them. Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One Beneath its spreading shade in the south lurks the Gila Monster, terrible in name at any rate, a fearful object to look upon, a remnant of antediluvian times, a huge, clumsy, two-foot lizard. The Romance of the Colorado River The Story of its Discovery in 1840, with an Account of the Later Explorations, and with Special Reference to the Voyages of Powell through the Line of the Great Canyons In consequence of the recent rains, the whole area of rock was two feet under water, and the extraordinary holes or wells that existed there looked like antediluvian cisterns. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, There were the same antediluvian plows, made of two sticks, as used in ancient Egypt at the time of the Exodus, when Moses led the Jews out of captivity to their Promised Land. Tales of Aztlan; the Romance of a Hero of our Late Spanish-American War, Incidents of Interest from the Life of a western Pioneer and Other Tales With their broad sails set, they moved slowly up the stream in the sluggish and fitful breeze, like one-winged antediluvian birds, and as if impelled by some mysterious counter-current. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers He found himself in the antediluvian condition of our great forefather Adam, while he loitered away his time in Paradise. Berlin and Sans-Souci; or Frederick the Great and his friends Let us now, with all the facts before us, gleaned from various sources, reconstruct, as near as may be, the condition of the antediluvians. Atlantis : the antediluvian world He professes, with the help of one single fact, to be able to reconstruct all the details of an assassination, as a savant pictures an antediluvian animal from a single bone. The Widow Lerouge Rebuilt as it were in the imagination it appears excessive, superabundant and multiple, like those flowers of the antediluvian world which the fossils reveal to us. Egypt (La Mort de Philae) The feature of the entire antediluvian show is the liberal allowance of material devoted to destruction. Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students As he cantered up to London with two servants and a post-boy, all riding on horses ordered in relays beforehand, he came up with an antediluvian coach, stuck fast by the road-side. Peg Woffington There was a general belief among the ancient nations that the art of writing was known to the antediluvians. Atlantis : the antediluvian world You may not know it, but I am a zoologist, and these are antediluvian eccentricities that have long ceased to embellish the world we live in. A Woman-Hater They might send up to Parliament the most antediluvian old Tory they could find in England if they wished, only not his son, not a Palliser as a Tory or Conservative. The Duke's Children |
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