The massif is the largest Swiss autochthonic crystalline entity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn, Switzerland] Reference

Its autochthonic ethos is threatened by the paradox of a heterodox dogma of inclusion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Firedoglake » Puddles Has Problems] Reference

Having said this, we must hedge in favor of Miss Jordan's most autochthonic Miss Kittie, so young.    From Wordnik.com.  [Different Girls] Reference

Or was it original and autochthonic, independent, in its inception, of any external influences, and unconnected with any other institution?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Symbolism of Freemasonry] Reference

Yet he impressed on all he said, on good words and bad alike, a marked autochthonic quality, as of the self-raised spontaneous products of some miraculous soil, from which prodigies and portents spring.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voltaire] Reference

Greeks poured honey, but not wine, in their rites for the dead, and in all the ceremonies which had to do with the worship of the earth deities -- the ancient autochthonic gods, older than the Olympians.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland] Reference

They corrupt their autochthonic customs, and drink champagne cider.    From Wordnik.com.  [Without Prejudice] Reference

The dance is the primordial, autochthonic form of music; its foundation so to speak.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beethoven A Character Study]

But Lincoln, his times, his death—great as any, any age—belong altogether to our own, and are autochthonic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of Abraham Lincoln. Collect] Reference

But Lincoln, his times, his death -- great as any, any age -- belong altogether to our own, and our autochthonic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy] Reference

I suppose one cannot at this day say anything new, from a literary point of view, about those autochthonic bequests of Asia -- the Hebrew.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy] Reference

We have seen M. Tremaux, with the autochthonic Athenians, deriving the powers of improvement of plants and animals from their native soils.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity] Reference

The high aquiline nose which is characteristic of the autochthonic race abounds in San Sebastian, but we saw no signs of the high temper which is said to go with it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Familiar Spanish Travels] Reference

Many ethnologists and anthropologists considered the Ainu autochthonic to Japan; I am forced to conclude from the evidence, however, that he is an emigrant, and that he came originally from North China or East Siberia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire] Reference

Nationality must ever be its autochthonic song, and how for a really great people there can be no complete and glorious Name, short of emerging out of and even rais'd on such born poetic expression, coming from its own soil and soul, its area, spread, idiosyncrasies, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy] Reference

John Fiske, one of the most autochthonic of New Englanders, pursued at my suggestion the same method with the papers forming his "Myths and Myth-Makers," and began with them his long line of popular contributions to the magazine, though some minor articles had preceded them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections of an Atlantic Editorship] Reference

Out of that supposition, the book might assume to be consider'd an autochthonic record and expression, freely render'd, of and out of these 30 to 35 years -- of the soul and evolution of America -- and of course, by reflection, not ours only, but more or less of the common people of the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Supplementary Prose, from Complete Prose Works (1892)] Reference

The former are, like languages, home-grown, autochthonic, without an historical beginning, generally without any recognized founder, or even an authorized code; the latter have been founded by historical persons, generally in antagonism to traditional systems, and they always rest on the authority of a written code.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chips From A German Workshop, Vol. V. Miscellaneous Later Essays] Reference

As America, from its many far-back sources and current supplies, develops, adapts, entwines, faithfully identifies its own—are we to see it cheerfully accepting and using all the contributions of foreign lands from the whole outside globe—and then rejecting the only ones distinctively its own—the autochthonic ones?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spanish Element in Our Nationality. November Boughs] Reference

America, from its many far-back sources and current supplies, develops, adapts, entwines, faithfully identifies its own -- are we to see it cheerfully accepting and using all the contributions of foreign lands from the whole outside globe -- and then rejecting the only ones distinctively its own -- the autochthonic ones?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy] Reference

As America, from its many far-back sources and current supplies, develops, adapts, entwines, faithfully identifies its own -- are we to see it cheerfully accepting and using all the contributions of foreign lands from the whole outside globe -- and then rejecting the only ones distinctively its own -- the autochthonic ones?.    From Wordnik.com.  [November Boughs ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose] Reference

The hour has come for democracy in America to inaugurate itself in the two directions specified -- autochthonic poems and personalities -- born expressers of itself, its spirit alone, to radiate in subtle ways, not only in art, but the practical and familiar, in the transactions between employers and employed persons, in business and wages, and sternly in the army and navy, and revolutionizing them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy] Reference

The hour has come for democracy in America to inaugurate itself in the two directions specified -- autochthonic poems and personalities -- born expressers of itself, its spirit alone, to radiate in subtle ways, not only in art, but the practical and familiar, in the transactions between employers and employ'd persons, in business and wages, and sternly in the army and navy, and revolutionizing them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collect ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose] Reference

You will certainly not adopt Niebuhr’s autochthonic theory, where such facts lie before you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities] Reference

"The military and fanatic despotism of the Arabs has vested during many centuries in the white autochthonic races of North Africa, without any fusion taking place between the conquering element and the conquered, without destroying at all the language and manners of the subject people, and, in a word, without creating anything durable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology] Reference

A western, autochthonic phase of America, the frontiers, culminating, typical, deadly, heroic to the uttermost -- nothing in the books like it, nothing in Homer, nothing in Shakspere; more grim and sublime than either, all native, all our own, and all a fact.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy] Reference

Altogether a western, autochthonic phase of America, the frontiers, culminating, typical, deadly, heroic to the uttermost—nothing in the books like it, nothing in Homer, nothing in Shakspere; more grim and sublime than either, all native, all our own, and all a fact.    From Wordnik.com.  [“Custer’s Last Rally.” Specimen Days] Reference

Altogether a western, autochthonic phase of America, the frontiers, culminating, typical, deadly, heroic to the uttermost -- nothing in the books like it, nothing in Homer, nothing in Shakspere; more grim and sublime than either, all native, all our own, and all a fact.    From Wordnik.com.  [Specimen Days; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose] Reference

Nevertheless, they touch a man closest, (perhaps only actually touch him,) even in these, in their expression through autochthonic lights and shades, flavors, fondnesses, aversions, specific incidents, illustrations, out of his own nationality, geography, surroundings, antecedents, &c.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collect ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose] Reference

Nevertheless, they touch a man closest, (perhaps only actually touch him,) even in these, in their expression through autochthonic lights and shades, flavors, fondnesses, aversions, specific incidents, illustrations, out of his own nationality, geography, surroundings, antecedents, &c. The spirit and the form are one, and depend far more on association, identity and place, than is supposed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy] Reference

In other writings I have tried to show how vital to any aspiring Nationality must ever be its autochthonic song, and how for a really great people there can be no complete and glorious Name, short of emerging out of and even rais'd on such born poetic expression, coming from its own soil and soul, its area, spread, idiosyncrasies, and (like showers of rain, originally rising impalpably, distill'd from land and sea,) duly returning there again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Good-Bye my Fancy ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose] Reference