Adjective : primeval forms of life. From Dictionary.com.
Excursion into the dark, this most primaeval of motherhoods. From Wordnik.com. [Gentian Cocoli] Reference
The Bialowieza primaeval forest - the pearl of European forests. From Wordnik.com. [Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park, Belarus] Reference
The first modification of the primaeval condition of things was when. From Wordnik.com. [The Athenian Constitution] Reference
There was hardly time even for alarm, even for primaeval instinct, even for rising hair. From Wordnik.com. [Twice shy]
When I had turned and gone, they would be alone with the primaeval darkness closing in behind them. From Wordnik.com. [Smokescreen]
An Australian morning is always charming, — amid these scenes of primaeval nature it seemed exquisitely so. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia] Reference
Behind lay the central and southern portions of the island, hushed as if their primaeval rocks were still tenantless. From Wordnik.com. [The Forest of Vazon A Guernsey Legend of the Eighth Century] Reference
Aristophanes describes the original 3 sexes of 4-legged man, split in half and always seeking our primaeval wholeness. From Wordnik.com. [thispain Diary Entry] Reference
The Hniflung hoard is also supposed to have consisted of the treasures of one band of primaeval artists, the Iwaldings. From Wordnik.com. [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference
The humans saw merely flashes of half-light, as in that primaeval world the little lives scampered and enjoyed and died. From Wordnik.com. [HOTHOUSE]
Such an oath, then, did the gods appoint the eternal and primaeval water of Styx to be: and it spouts through a rugged place. From Wordnik.com. [Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica] Reference
But others make entrance to the corridors of the mind by blind and secret ways, and there awaken the echoes of primaeval fear. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Louis Stevenson] Reference
On the dying echo of the primaeval scream of terror that was our most recent post, comes news of a heartening babystep victory. From Wordnik.com. [Buying Jacqui Smith’s identity on the internet?] Reference
"Ah, well," he said, as if to himself, "it's something to be in a country where the sun still goes down with a thought of the primaeval.". From Wordnik.com. [The Imperialist] Reference
His cosmos would necessarily be imperfect and unequal, being the first attempt to impress form and order on the primaeval chaos of human knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [Timaeus] Reference
Remote from the polite, they still retained the primaeval simplicity of manners, and frugal by habit, they scarce knew that temperance was a virtue. From Wordnik.com. [The Vicar of Wakefield] Reference
For a moment the primaeval man in him leapt up, telling him that he had only to pit himself against Vardri, and the victory would be assuredly his own. From Wordnik.com. [The Hippodrome] Reference
And the sensations it arouses are the same; the same primaeval untouched force lies outstretched in its breadth and majesty before the eyes of the spectator. From Wordnik.com. [The Diary of a Superfluous Man and other stories] Reference
This poem deals with the overthrow of the primaeval order of Gods by. From Wordnik.com. [Keats: Poems Published in 1820] Reference
Apsu represents the male and Tiâmat the female principle of the primaeval universe. From Wordnik.com. [The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria] Reference
The nation had lost its primaeval freedom, and the courage and loyalty which freedom gives. From Wordnik.com. [The Water of Life and Other Sermons] Reference
It's a largely unmodified wilderness with luxuriant primaeval forest ringing with native birds. From Wordnik.com. [Bangkokpost.com : Breaking News] Reference
In the primaeval age of conquest they, with seagirt Ireland, were the asylum of the weaker race. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures and Essays] Reference
This is true of him on the whole, though he sometimes was guilty of thoroughly primaeval cruelty. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures and Essays] Reference
The yearly phenomenon brought home to the minds of the Babylonians, a picture of primaeval chaos. From Wordnik.com. [The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria] Reference
The massing together of the primaeval waters completes the picture of chaos in the cuneiform account. From Wordnik.com. [The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria] Reference
We are tempted to linger over the story of these primaeval mariners, for nothing equals it in romance. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures and Essays] Reference
This phase of sight and feeling, so strange to us now, was common, nay, primaeval, among the Easterns. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermits] Reference
Another theory appears to have existed according to which the gods were contemporaneous with primaeval chaos. From Wordnik.com. [The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria] Reference
But man emerges from the primaeval state, and when he does, he demands a reason for his submission to moral law. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures and Essays] Reference
But at any rate he has allowed no breath of later enlightenment to disturb the primaeval gloom of his atmosphere. From Wordnik.com. [Oedipus King of Thebes Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes] Reference
"Yes," said the doctor, "and that we can go round, for we are evidently skirting the edge of this primaeval jungle.". From Wordnik.com. [Dead Man's Land Being the Voyage to Zimbambangwe of certain and uncertain] Reference
Now it appears likely that these conditions were exactly fulfilled by the primaeval settlements on the hills of Rome. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures and Essays] Reference
This episode is the conquest of a great monster known as Tiâmat, -- a personification, as we shall see, of primaeval chaos. From Wordnik.com. [The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria] Reference
The curtain, rose on a "glade in the forest primaeval," as was announced by the dozen playbills which did duty for the audience. From Wordnik.com. [Half a Dozen Girls] Reference
The larger island is so placed as to receive primaeval immigration from three quarters -- from France, from the coast of Northern. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures and Essays] Reference
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