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  • By contrast Cave-man was always pleased to see red as it symbolised the kill.

    Tuesday Evo-Psych Bollocks from the Institute of Pissing About MissPrism 2009

  • When the praiser of the Past contends that modern civilization has improved in nothing upon Homer and Herodotus, he is apt to forget that every schoolboy is a miracle of learning compared with the Cave-man and the palæolithic race.

    The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi 2003

  • But no Cave-man was willing to lose one of his barbed spear points.

    The Later Cave-Men Katharine Elizabeth Dopp

  • A Cave-man could wound an animal with a spear, but he could not give a deadly blow.

    The Later Cave-Men Katharine Elizabeth Dopp

  • Every Cave-man admired the deep scar of the bravest man in the clan.

    The Later Cave-Men Katharine Elizabeth Dopp

  • From the tough sinews of the large animals, every Cave-man made his own thread.

    The Later Cave-Men Katharine Elizabeth Dopp

  • Chipper was the first Cave-man who invented a new way.

    The Later Cave-Men Katharine Elizabeth Dopp

  • Cave-man style outraged her every fiber, and the man was dumbfounded at her reaction.

    The Nervous Housewife Abraham Myerson 1914

  • But I was interrupted by a sudden exclamation from both the Cave-man and the Cave-woman together:

    Frenzied Fiction Stephen Leacock 1906

  • Somehow, too, the Cave-man had lost all appearance of size.

    Frenzied Fiction Stephen Leacock 1906

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