This tellurian iconography, chiefly American, consists already in ten great books or portfolios; having little hope to be enabled to publish them, I wish they might be deposited in a great public library, where they might be consulted.
"The American Nations, Vol. I."
C. S. Rafinesque
They are not impossible: they could be translated into actual tellurian beings, which the men and women of the bad novelist never can be.
"The English Novel"
George Saintsbury
Did it contain the oxygen essential to tellurian lungs?
"Across the Zodiac"
Percy Greg