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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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