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Definition of Meteorically
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Meteorically
Literary usage of Meteorically
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin by Kentucky Geological Survey (1907)
"... Aqueous deposits (resulting from re- deposition of meteorically dissolved
primary deposits), inconsequential from an economic standpoint, ..."
2. Man by Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (1902)
"... who was insensible to quieter interests than fighting and kept moving meteorically
from one intense personal excitement to another, till the end came by ..."
3. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1895)
"And eminent scientists, satisfied that spontaneous generation nowhere occurs,
have conjectured that the germ of life has meteorically descended on our ..."
4. Queen Victoria by Lytton Strachey (1921)
"... pleasure at that unfamiliar, darkly-glittering foreign object, moving so
meteorically before her, an ambiguous creature of wilfulness and Destiny. ..."
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