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- noun Plural form of
Morlock .
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Examples
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I read the whole thing waiting for the turn, when it would be revealed that the Morlocks were the only things keeping the Eloi safe from predators, that their "chittering" was speech, and that they had become the keepers of society and culture.
What is Fanfiction? blitheringpooks 2010
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 Again, later writers messed with this story by having Gambit lead the Marauders to the Morlocks, which is dumb, but the raw power of the original story is still palpable.
Which is your favorite X-Men Era? | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2007
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You can see these themes in H. G Well's The Time Machine, in which the Eloi stand for the innocent, unconscious dwellers in a Garden of Eden, and the Morlocks are the experienced, conscious users of machines.
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You can see these themes in H. G Well's The Time Machine, in which the Eloi stand for the innocent, unconscious dwellers in a Garden of Eden, and the Morlocks are the experienced, conscious users of machines.
The Sudden Curve: 2005
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"Morlocks" into your countries in the first place.
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"Morlocks" into your countries in the first place.
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When the time traveller journeys into the future, in The Time Machine, he finds a world built on cannibalism, with the delicate Eloi seemingly content to be farmed as food for the brutish Morlocks, and travelling on into the far future finds a darkening Earth where the only life is green slime.
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I imagine that you had to defeat the leader of the Morlocks to usurp her.
Zut Alors!* karenhealey 2010
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I'd go for an all-out battle between the Morlocks and the Liliputians!
Cage Matches grrm 2010
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Wells does this by creating the Eloi and Morlocks, species that have evolved out of this divide and lost what is best in man.
Director's Corner: The Pleasures of Science Fiction odysseyworkshop 2009
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