I think its some kind of primeval impulse or survival instinct since some snakes are dangerous to people. From Wordnik.com. [Scream] Reference
There was something in this north country — a kind of primeval force — that unsettled one's educated beliefs. From Wordnik.com. [The Cat Who Went Underground]
It began in primeval savagery. From Wordnik.com. [Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution] Reference
All these catastrophes, so crushing, so unexpected, filled him with a kind of primeval terror. From Wordnik.com. [South Wind] Reference
For a glimpse of primeval Europe, head for the high mountains of eastern Switzerland. From Wordnik.com. [Not In Our Park, Mister] Reference
This all strikes us before we even learn about money – it plays to our primeval urge for territory. From Wordnik.com. [£140m for a flat? Perhaps the buyer would like to see my Kilburn des res] Reference
March 26, 2009 at 5: 16 am primeval is the best and the the animals are the best. From Wordnik.com. [Tonight on Primeval: Raptors : SF Universe - SF Universe is your Science Fiction central. From SciFi television to movies to books and more. All the latest news, reviews and insights from SciFi experts.] Reference
Martian civilization had burrowed underground at some point in primeval history, after the oceans, lakes, and rivers had dried up. From Wordnik.com. [The Spy] Reference
I speak the pass-word primeval -- I give the sign of. From Wordnik.com. [Leaves of Grass [1867]] Reference
I speak the pass-word primeval, I give the sign of democracy. From Wordnik.com. [Leaves of Grass] Reference
I speak the pass-word primevalI give the sign of democracy. From Wordnik.com. [Walt Whitman] Reference
The so-called primeval nebula follows as a necessary inference from these facts. From Wordnik.com. [The Unseen World and Other Essays] Reference
Is it not probable that our repugnance to the idea of primeval union between spirit and matter might be considerably abated?. From Wordnik.com. [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference
It's like this kind of primeval prairie in the shadow, if you will, of Kennedy Airport. From Wordnik.com. [Farmed Fish, Food Fish; Wild Fish, Few Fish] Reference
Nurs'd by warm sun-beams in primeval caves. From Wordnik.com. [Canto I] Reference
6 The terms 'primeval' or 'primordial' sometimes suggested for rendering the prefix 'ur' are unsuitable in a case like this. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
It was both perfectly controlled and slightly primeval. From Wordnik.com. [Lips that Touch Liquor: The Gin Buck] Reference
Or has gardening struck a primeval chord in their psyche?. From Wordnik.com. [What Would Virgil Say?] Reference
For five long, quiet hours he was man primeval, and eternal. From Wordnik.com. [BEFORE THE NEBRASKA SEA] Reference
Thou aeronautical boll weevil, illuminate yon woods primeval. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrating The Johnny Mercer Centennial] Reference
Megawati Sukarnoputri followed, cutting a highway through Aceh's primeval forests. From Wordnik.com. [Money Pit] Reference
Here in the South's forest primeval, humans are keeping an eye out as never before. From Wordnik.com. [The Search For Hidden Life] Reference
To say that theorists were eager to discover such primeval clumps is an understatement. From Wordnik.com. ['The Handwriting Of God'] Reference
Hubble spied 14 primeval galaxies that seem to be the oldest normal galaxies ever seen. From Wordnik.com. [Postcards From The Edge] Reference
And in this thoroughly modern primeval hut there were plenty of inducements to be lazy. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp] Reference
He was like a primeval cell, floating without origin, without purpose, without destination. From Wordnik.com. [The Memory of Mars] Reference
That wild, primeval garden had been, as yet, redeemed from nature only in plots and patches. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
The road as indicated on the map in the road book was cut through forests of primeval growth. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp] Reference
For all that appeared to the contrary, they might have been in the depths of a primeval forest. From Wordnik.com. [Army Boys on German Soil Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs] Reference
He feels the music, very loud, rushing up to him from primeval rock huts: and he feels good with it. From Wordnik.com. [Hepatitis RR or Bust] Reference
Even the pre-zip "Pagan Void" (1946) oozes primeval mystery and a sense of being present at the creation. From Wordnik.com. [A Radical's Work Grows Old--Not So Gracefully] Reference
Some see echoes of a primeval – and racist – instinct to protect "our" women against outside marauders. From Wordnik.com. [Saber Kushour: 'My conviction for "rape by deception" has ruined my life'] Reference
I sensed the primeval eternity of the land that was there long before I was born and would continue long after I was dead. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
And yet, they "are the imprints of tiny ripples in the fabric of spacetime put there by the primeval explosion," says Smoot. From Wordnik.com. ['The Handwriting Of God'] Reference
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