| 1940 Astounding Sci.-Fiction Oct. 59/1
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Hinged robots of crude manlike appearance were familiar enough, but never had Earthling eyes lain on one like this.
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| 1950 P. Anderson Star Ship in Planet Stories Oct. 74/1
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There'd been Earthling girls; and not a few Khazaki women had been intrigued by the big Terrestrial.
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| 1968 S. E. Whitfield in S. E. Whitfield & G. Roddenberry Making of ‘Star Trek’ ii. v. 232
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I suspect that the character's remote quality—a sort of loneliness because he is different from the rest of the Earthling crew—makes the kids react.
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| 1980 B. Bova Moonstruck! in O. Davis Omni Bk. of Space 387
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The November 1979 issue of Science reviewed the situation under the heading, EARTHLING AT ODDS OVER MOON TREATY.
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| 1984 D. Brin Practice Effect vi.i. 99
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Earthlings had had to struggle and experiment for thousands of years to reach a level of comfort these people achieved almost without thinking.
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| 1985 S. Sucharitkul Alien Swordmaster ii. vi. 41
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It was the aliens‥waiting, quietly waiting for the moment when the earthlings had exhausted their ammunition and they could slip back and reconquer the world.
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| 1985 R. Rucker & B. Sterling Storming Cosmos in B. Sterling Globalhead (1994) 26
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This place was impossibly remote. Kazantsev suggested that the crash point had been chosen deliberately to avoid injuring Earthlings.
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| 1985 R. Rucker & B. Sterling Storming Cosmos in B. Sterling Globalhead (1994) 18
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The dog Laika has been shot into the cosmic void. A good dog, a Russian, an Earthling.
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| 1990 G. Bear Queen of Angels (1991) i.iv. 17
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We might find mankind's future husbands and wives among the angels who‥once cohabited with Earthlings.
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| 1992 H. Collins Mutagenesis 20
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You and I will be collecting Anunna! We will have no interest in Earthlings like Barney and his daughters.
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| 1993 D. Beason & K. J. Anderson Assemblers of Infinity xlvi. 350
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Then we can be here to listen in‥influence them to be sympathetic to us poor Earthlings when the rest of the gang comes along.
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| 1993 A. Budrys Hard Landing 100
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Furthermore, I did not know if an un-Earthling had ever previously been encountered, but that did not mean much; you can trust any branch of the service above a certain level of rank to keep its secrets.
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| 1993 Sci. Fiction Age Jan. 49/1
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Boys and girls together. Standard 25th-century Earthlings.
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| 1995 Dean Wesley Smith & Kristine Kathryn Rusch Star Trek Voyager: Escape iv. 35
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Like Earthlings, though, these people had different-color hair and a finer bone structure.
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| 2006 S. M. Stirling Sky People i. 21
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The newcomers spared a few startled glances at them: You had to look fairly closely to see that they weren't common garden-variety Caucasoid Earthlings.
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