primeval

• Yes, I am a beautiful woman--primeval, elemental--I was made for love Again I wrote, showing that I half understood the perils that beset me Women are moths, they love to play with fire. —  Possessed
• Least of all, would it have been possible to give any touch of political importance to what would have then seemed so wild a dream as a primeval kindred between Magyar and Ottoman That feelings such as these, and the practical consequences which have flowed from them, are distinctly due to scientific and historical teaching there can, I think, be no doubt. —  Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
• Really Tarzan of the Apes was but a child, or a primeval man, which is the same thing in a way The next day but one a small party of hunters returned to the village from the south to report a large herd of elephant some miles away. —  Return of Tarzan
• En passant_, it may be said that some of the methods of the poorer Mexican peones are not much in advance of those of our common ancestor--primeval man To observe now the contents of the olla_. —  Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development
• He gives as the primeval rule, to say what is true and what is pleasant, but not what is true and unpleasant, or what is pleasant and not true. —  India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge

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