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lanthanides

n. (plural of lanthanide English)

Usage examples of "lanthanides".

When Giles said that all the Lanthanides were coming back to this reunion, I realized that there must be quite a lot of money in it somewhere.

The Lanthanides had never been prize physical specimens, but he supposed that their interest in science fiction may have stemmed in part from that.

After the first ceremonial spadeful of earth had been dug by each of the Lanthanides, accompanied by speeches in varying degrees of pomposity, Jim and Dale took turns digging the three-foot hole.

Conyers smiled at this bit of fancy, wondering if the other Lanthanides felt that way or if the reunion was a colorful way to make a buck.

The Lanthanides, as an organization, is but a golden memory in the minds of those of us who were a part of it, but its effect on SF springs eternal.

As all Trufandom knows, in the mid-Fifties, after the Lanthanides had gone their separate ways, the TVA turned the whole valley into a lake, and the famous Wall Hollow Fan Farm was hundreds of feet under water.

Sunday morning, followed by a press conference with the surviving Lanthanides and their newly acquired publisher, the high bidder of the auction.

He was the only one of the Lanthanides that she would really like to see, and he was dead.

It seemed to him that all the Lanthanides ever did was talk aimlessly and wait around for something to happen.

She was pleased to finally be in the know on a bit of Lanthanides gossip.

Except for the possibility of added prestige for a literary coup, which might result in money or perks, the Lanthanides Anthology Auction might as well be a Monopoly tournament.

Ashley, agent for Ruben Mistral and architect of the Lanthanides package, had hosted a prime-rib dinner for the group earlier in the evening, but she had wisely refrained from discussing business except to say that she for one felt privileged to be present at the making of a science fiction legend.

Usually, he dealt logically with problems that he could solve, and he wasted little time fretting over the rest, but the Lanthanides troubled him.

He explained his feelings about the other Lanthanides, and his own unwillingness to become like any of them in succeeding decades.

The more perceptive of the Lanthanides might assume that I was here to do more of the same.