Look, if I can spell 'Australian Aboriginal Hebephile', I can spell 'telluric' easily, OK?. From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
There some posters on Arrse who would find it difficult to put "telluric" on any form withour committing fraud/perjury/whatever. From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
Or with telluric H2O vapor lines seen in the solar spectrum?. From Wordnik.com. [Washington Post: Stem Cell Debacle Spurs Calls for Improved Oversight « Climate Audit] Reference
You must be plugged into the telluric currents of Midwestern baseball. From Wordnik.com. [Yanks-Twins: Game 3 | ATTACKERMAN] Reference
That it was not of true meteoritic material, but telluric iron that had been shaped by man. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
"telluric" - earthly - or "cosmic") through the body, often via one or more of the chakras. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com Recent Updates] Reference
In the last analysis, every idea can be traced back to the economic and telluric environments. From Wordnik.com. [Socialism: Positive and Negative] Reference
The distribution is not one of seeds, but rather of geographical conditions -- thermometric, hygrometric, telluric, and possibly chemical. From Wordnik.com. [Life: Its True Genesis] Reference
It may also be said to have its hygrometric and telluric gauges, or instruments to determine the necessary conditions of moisture and soil-constituents. From Wordnik.com. [Life: Its True Genesis] Reference
These, added to the necessary telluric conditions, give the required moisture, heat, and soil-constituents for the development of the Japan clover in the. From Wordnik.com. [Life: Its True Genesis] Reference
But Ojakangas, too, is interested in the notion of the event as it relates to the law and its "sacred origins," traceable back to the telluric relation to the earth. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
Was the phenomenon of telluric origin -- Etna or an earthquake?. From Wordnik.com. [Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions] Reference
Oxygen in sun, 213-215; telluric absorption, 214; in stars, 384. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition] Reference
Some electrical and telluric influences are hinted at -- Credat Judoeus!. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
Trepidations, drifts, north wind, tempest. telluric fire. or inner storms?. From Wordnik.com. [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference
But the theory of telluric origin of aerolites was by no means so easily disposed of. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences] Reference
Kant's speculations, whether cosmological, or specially telluric, in their application. From Wordnik.com. [Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews] Reference
While, therefore, frequency of thunder shows a high grade of telluric and atmospheric electricity. From Wordnik.com. [Census of the City of Charleston, South Carolina, For the Year 1861. Illustrated by Statistical Tables. Prepared under the Authority of the City Council by Frederick A. Ford] Reference
Brewster, diffraction theory of corona, 67; telluric lines in solar spectrum, 134; absorption spectra, 136. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition] Reference
Its performance is hindered by error, evil, selfishness, and death, without counting telluric catastrophes. From Wordnik.com. [Amiel's Journal] Reference
"It is a new telluric force which in power and universality may be compared to the greater forces of the earth.". From Wordnik.com. [The Earth as Modified by Human Action] Reference
But then, it's two months till the next Heartland potlatch, so stay tuned telluric currents fans-they're still out there. From Wordnik.com. [RealClimate] Reference
Messina and Reggio (28 December, 1908), the ground has undergone alteration, and telluric movements show no tendency to cease. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference
Across the North Atlantic under Tesla's Tower sank a shaft 120 feet down where the telluric currents of earth could be trancseived. From Wordnik.com. [Brit Lit Blogs] Reference
It travels, like an epidemic, on the sightless currents of the atmosphere, or by the laws of a telluric influence equally intangible. From Wordnik.com. [Madam Crowl's Ghost and the Dead Sexton] Reference
The delineation of the principal characteristics of telluric phenomena must begin with the form of our planet and its relations in space. From Wordnik.com. [COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1] Reference
A small fraction of telluric heat is derived from the regions of universal space in which our planetary system is moving, whose temperature. From Wordnik.com. [COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1] Reference
That which occurs in the world of stars is reflected in the telluric world; everything has its centre, towards which it is attracted with fervour. From Wordnik.com. [The Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori) Part the First An Ethical Poem] Reference
In the solar spectrum, examined from that eminence, oxygen-absorption was so much enfeebled as to leave no possible doubt of its purely telluric origin. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition] Reference
I remarked the same in the glorious valley of the Lower Congo: it must result from some telluric or atmospheric condition which we cannot yet appreciate. From Wordnik.com. [To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I] Reference
He was the first to ascribe, on the basis of ingenious experiments, the telluric lines of the spectrum of the sun to the influence of atmospheric vapour. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference
Therefore Italy is a recent formation, and consequently is subject to telluric phenomena that are unknown, or are less frequent, in the neighbouring countries. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference
Blue is the cosmic color, the color of sky and ocean, of the vaster universal life, just as green is the telluric color, the color of the more limited earthly existence. From Wordnik.com. [The Bride of Dreams] Reference
Deep-penetrating Titan 24 IP and magneto-telluric geophysical surveying by Quantec Geoscience is planned in the near future to be followed by deep diamond drilling in 2010. From Wordnik.com. Reference
All this is the handiwork of nature, and it is not without wonder, mingled with awe, that I reflect upon the telluric forces capable of engendering such prodigious substructions. From Wordnik.com. [Facing the Flag] Reference
Some conservative meteorologists kept up the argument for the telluric origin for some decades to come, as a matter of course -- such a band trails always in the rear of progress. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences] Reference
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