primitive

• But stories of them have been supported by astonishing fabrications of details and of different accounts in agreement So, if a giant left impressions of his bare feet in the ground, that is not to say that he was a primitive--bulk of culture out taking the Kneipp cure. —  The Book of the Damned
• If I had been a moderately good otter I suppose I should get back into human shape of some sort; probably something rather primitive--a little brown, unclothed Nubian boy, I should think I wish you would be serious," sighed Amanda; "you really ought to be if you're only going to live till Tuesday As a matter of fact Laura died on Monday So dreadfully upsetting," Amanda complained to her uncle-in-law, Sir Lulworth Quayne. —  Beasts and Super-Beasts
• Often these forms remained quite primitive, and the idea that inspired them is still clear, as where Juvenal (VI, 521 f.) —  The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism
• The times and the place where these two were bred were alike primitive, and this farewell journey had no shadow of impropriety in it even for the most censorious eyes. —  Cruel Barbara Allen From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)
• But to some creatures the primitive is a cipher, hard to learn; and blood is spent in the struggle. —  The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story

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