And then the grotesque caravan of the azoic motor age, with its flapping curtains and ununiformed youth in visored cap at the wheel.
"The Vertical City"
Fannie Hurst
Because in Bohemia, Great Britain, and portions of North America, the lowest unmetamorphosed strata yet discovered, contain but slight traces of life, Sir R. Murchison conceives that they were formed while yet few, if any, plants or animals had been created; and, therefore, classes them as "azoic."
"Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I"
Herbert Spencer
How then, from the absence of fossils in the Longmynd beds and their equivalents, can we conclude that the Earth was "azoic" when they were formed?
"Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I"
Herbert Spencer