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1656 Bp. J. Taylor Further Explic. Doctr. Orig. Sin. 498 This staine of our Nature, by taking off the supernaturall grace, and beautyes put into it, like..stripping a man of his robe and turning him abroade in his naturall shame, leaving him as naked as Adam and we were.

1732 Grub-St. Jrnl. 23 Mar. At last, being got out of the water, as naked as Adam, we had a mile and a half to run to the town with the hot sand scalding under our feet.

1870 Fraser's Mag. Feb. 207/2 The rocks yielded to a space of sand, over which I gladly ran, in Adam's dress, into the embrace of the folding waves.

1900 J. H. Crawford Autobiogr. Tramp xxii. 273 It had passed me, that cart had, when I was lying in the place they break the stones, or trudging along in Adam's boots, and ne'er said excuse me disturbin' you, or will you take a lift.

1908 H. W. Hand Centennial Hist. Town of Nunda xiv. 63 On inquiring for the Chief they pointed to another tree near by, where he was seen lying upon his back nearly naked... He was simply a ‘modern Adam of a race renewed’.

1963 V. Nabokov Gift v. 315 Thanks to the suntan coating my entire body..I felt myself an athlete, a Tarzan, an Adam, anything you like.

1985 N.Y. Times Mag. 8 Sept. 22/3 ‘They went in swimming—?’ posed the interviewers, and heard ‘dressed like Adam’ from the skinny-dipping set.

2004 A. Levy Small Island xl. 388 Left me standing there naked as Adam in full lather and not a drop of water coming from the sky.

2008 N. Ofege Hot Water for Famous Seven vi. 56 The boys had to walk the 500 metres to their dormitories naked, looking very much like little devils in their Adam's suit, as Bamanga Njuma said.