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"Martian" Quotes from Famous Books

... it all on me somehow: So we were out walking on the spongy sand of the Martian desert. We'd been walking a ...

— The Hunted Heroes • Robert Silverberg

... have read the Turkish history; and that of Joan of Spain, of which I treated in my former section. Her jealousy, saith Gomesius, was the cause of both their deaths: King Philip died for grief a little after, as [6166]Martian his physician gave it out, "and she for her part after a melancholy discontented life, misspent in lurking-holes and corners, made an end of her miseries." Felix Plater, in the first book of his observations, hath many such instances, of a physician of his acquaintance, [6167]"that was first ...

— The Anatomy of Melancholy • Democritus Junior

... shy but he was, except for that moment when a vivid concern over John Wollaston's illness brought him back, oddly remote, detached. He might have been a Martian, when in response to her leading he discussed Paula with her; how good a musician she was; how splendidly equipped physically and temperamentally for an operatic career. "She has abandoned all that now, I suppose," he said. "Everything that goes with it. She would wish, if she ever ...

— Mary Wollaston • Henry Kitchell Webster

Words linked to "Martian" : Mars, imaginary creature, imaginary being