1894, Richard Henry Savage, The Princess of Alaska, Chicago and New York: Rand, McNally, Book 2, Chapter 8, p. 235,
[…] the atomy speck, hurled through space, which we mortals call the world!

Things that flit in the sky or creep
In the atomy dust, or swarm in the deep,

And thicker then in sunne are Atomies,
Flew bullets, fier, and slaughtered dead mens cries.

[…] the crew
Seemed in that light, like atomies to dance
Within a sunbeam;

1880, Richard Francis Burton, The Kasidah, London: H. S. Nichols, 1894, p. 7,
The marvel is that man can smile dreaming his ghostly ghastly dream;—
Better the heedless atomy that buzzes in the morning beam!

Lastly, it [an Element] is the least part or Atomie of that thing which is made, or proceedeth from it.

And freely men confesse that this world’s spent,
When in the Planets, and the firmament
They seeke so many new; they see that this

[…] praise thy God,
O be not selfe-conceited, least his rod
Doe bruise thee into Atomies;

1728, John Gay, The Beggar’s Opera, Dublin: George Risk et al., Act II, Scene 1, p. 67,
I could not save him from those fleaing Rascals the Surgeons; and now, poor Man, he is among the Otamys [sic] at Surgeon's Hall.

I was now thrown into a violent perturbation of spirit; for I never could behold an atomy without fear and trembling, even when I knew it was no more than a composition of dry bones;

The veriest atomy he looked,
With grimy fingers clutching and crooked,
Tight skin, a nose all bony and hooked,
And a shaking, sharp, suspicious way;

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