| 1. | The thought that the divine Dejah Thoris might fall into the clutches of such an abysmal atavism started the cold sweat upon me. - from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| 2. | That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good--the atavism of an old ideal. - from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 3. | She was indeed, as her fellow Martian had said of her, an atavism a dear and precious reversion to a former type of loved and loving ancestor. - from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs |