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Examples
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You truly rule the Earth, thou latter-day morlocks.
Boing Boing 2008
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Systems administrators are the unsung heroes of the twenty first century, our tireless morlocks who keep the entire universe running.
Boing Boing 2007
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I clench when I read this, and I suffer visions of H.G. Wells, the eloi and the morlocks.
More Aesthetics Hal Duncan 2007
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There is very good evidence to suggest that humans are evolving into two species, the eloi and the morlocks.
Ardi is a million years older than Lucy - The Panda's Thumb 2009
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-------- And the morlocks are always hungry, so whenever they find an opportunity to capture and eat one of the eloi, they do so.
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TSA personnel, specifically, are morons who can't walk and chew gum -- unfit to be cops when cops themselves have devolved into morlocks.
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The rest of the people, we peasants, or morlocks if you perfer, poor folk, we are just commodities with bright futures inside the prison factory system.
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They are obviously too stupid to domesticate humans a la the eloi and the morlocks, right?
31 Days of Zombie!, Day 29: Day of the Dead (George A. Romero, 1985) 2007
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In an ironic future, the worker class has evolved into a race of monsters, the morlocks, dwelling in caverns below the earth, instinctually caring for the machinery that runs the world above.
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In an ironic future, the worker class has evolved into a race of monsters, the morlocks, dwelling in caverns below the earth, instinctually caring for the machinery that runs the world above.
takchess commented on the word morlocks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morlock
def of Morlocks
April 5, 2012