1858, Hugh Miller, Rambles of a Geologist, Chapter 5, in The Cruise of the Betsey; with Rambles of a Geologist, Edinburgh: Constable, p. 302,
[…] the clay […] had gradually been moulded, under the attritive influences of the elements, into series of alternating ridges and furrows,

Do you mark how the wistaria, sun-impacted on this wall here, distills and penetrates this room as though (light-unimpeded) by secret and attritive progress from mote to mote of obscurity’s myriad components?

That certain works did thus survive time’s attritive passage, and that people did continue to agree in their estimation of them would by no means show […] that their judgments were both objective and correct.

From a nearby town came “crews of eager young men” who “pitched in” through the “attritive, swirling, arctic-like night.”

Attritive

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