Rather primitively operated foundries. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : primitive forms of life. ,primitive toolmaking. ,primitive passions. ,the primitive phase of the history of a town. ,primitive ideas and habits. ,a primitive farm implement. ,primitive living conditions. From Dictionary.com.
To say they lived primitively is probably nice. From Wordnik.com. [Just Another Day - SpouseBUZZ] Reference
It is conducted after a primitively simple fashion. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands] Reference
The passage had been cut primitively through sheer native rock. From Wordnik.com. [Division 3]
Less primitively, theory and convention guide the determination of kinds. From Wordnik.com. [Hans Reichenbach] Reference
Mesonotum: the primitively upper surface of the 2d or middle thoracic ring. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Somehow, the more fashionable attire made him seem more primitively appealing. From Wordnik.com. [On Wings Of Love]
Secondary properties can be ascribed to the world derivatively but not primitively. From Wordnik.com. [Atomism from the 17th to the 20th Century] Reference
There will be three primitively different phenomenal states, with no further structure. From Wordnik.com. ['Consciousness and the Philosophers': An Exchange] Reference
There are two kinds of people on that mountain, living quite primitively, you might say. From Wordnik.com. [The Cat Who Moved A Mountain]
(By the way, why is the cutting of clothing so primitively satisfying to wronged women?). From Wordnik.com. [Vicki Iovine: Another Reason Why I'm Glad I'm Not Silda Spitzer] Reference
On its pages were primitively outlined the features of most of the women of his fiction. From Wordnik.com. [Balzac] Reference
She swiped for the chalk, holding it primitively, as if her hand was no better than a paw. From Wordnik.com. [Salem Falls]
To understand “¡” one must find the following elimination rule primitively compelling. From Wordnik.com. [Logical Constants] Reference
These observations have led some entomologists to consider carpenter bees primitively social. From Wordnik.com. [Carpenter bee] Reference
Its impossibility for accomplishment, and so insufficiency for its primitively appointed end. From Wordnik.com. [Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost] Reference
It is evil to any thing to be laid aside as to the end to which it was primitively appointed. From Wordnik.com. [Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost] Reference
"All right," said Arthur, starting to stuff it back into the primitively stitched rabbit-skin bag. From Wordnik.com. [Life, the Universe, and Everything]
The intensively competitive and primitively capi'talistic Mai ruled the ocean and the river valleys. From Wordnik.com. [Voyage To The City Of The Dead]
In America the colonial log cabin and the sod house of the prairie pioneer were primitively incomplete. From Wordnik.com. [Society Its Origin and Development] Reference
There he lived primitively, working in the open and sleeping under his boat, sometimes for weeks at a time. From Wordnik.com. [Georgianne Nienaber: A Hymn for Nature in Peril on the Gulf Seashore] Reference
She scarcely noticed getting out of the taxi, registering, being conducted to a primitively furnished room. From Wordnik.com. [The Queen of Air and Darkness]
What could a handful of primitively armed and almost primitively minded Terrans do now if they had to dispute. From Wordnik.com. [The Defiant Agents] Reference
In the more primitively constructed examples the cross pieces seem to be simply laid on without any cutting in. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228] Reference
As ravenously as he — and she — wished, as blatantly, wantonly, primitively evocative as they both desired. From Wordnik.com. [The Ideal Bride]
"Besides, they live primitively, infant mortality is always high, they feel they must be fecund whatever happens.". From Wordnik.com. [The Boat of a Million Years]
The following is a diary of that experience, primitively scratched on a variety of wood pulp surfaces using graphite. From Wordnik.com. [I Survived My Internet Vacation] Reference
Their mystery became ominous rather than enchanting, their lifestyle grubby and pest-ridden rather than primitively idyllic. From Wordnik.com. [Shaman's Crossing]
Poorly trained, primitively equipped and miserably underpaid, local police across the region are overwhelmed by the new plague. From Wordnik.com. [The New 'Silk Road' Of Death] Reference
Adhesion as a normal occurrence is usually the result of a lack of separation rather than of union of parts primitively separate. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
The poetic element manages to communicate with us in different ways; it has a sense of sound to it, something primitively evocative. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Old and New Masterpieces Lament His Dashed Hippie Dreams] Reference
In the former it signifies the man that manages a Lighter, and in the latter it was primitively connected with Field, as "A Man's Field.". From Wordnik.com. [Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget] Reference
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