1825, Ralph Griffiths, G E Griffiths, The Monthly Review"It is," he says, "an earthless country, bordered by immense ice-islands, which are continually separating in the summer...
1825, W T Sherwin, Richard Carlile, The Republican...the Christians, having possession of that worthless, rocky, barren, earthless spot of land, called in Europe the Holy Land...
1897, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew BulletinIn the Yangtze gorges the wild form grows on cliffs in practically earthless ledges...
