How anybody with an ounce of brains can take stock in this caveman nonsense is more than I can understand!
I'm glad to hear you admit that a caveman can be too much of a good thing with his stone hatchet or club or whatever he uses to bang and whack all heads with!
A few feet farther on he could dimly make out the body of the huge caveman who had fallen before his revolver a few moments ago--and at the side of the caveman lay his victim, General Herran.
Thus it was that the caveman altered his course to the east and he set off through the trees, swinging among the branches with the ease and celerity of little Nobar, the monkey.
With his weapons restored to their usual places, the caveman rejoined Trakor at the forest's edge.
As it was, an entire moon passed before thecaveman was able to leave his bed.
A caveman could not slay Sadu thus," he declared, pushing a bare toe gingerly against the dead beast's back.
The child of the caveman (and this is true of the children of all savage peoples) had a childhood, and by that is meant a happy childhood of play and development.
No caveman ever starved as chronically as they starve, ever slept as vilely as they sleep, ever festered with rottenness and disease as they fester, nor ever toiled as hard and for as long hours as they toil.
From the caveman to the hand-workers of three generations ago, the increase in efficiency for food- and shelter-getting has been very great.
The caveman, with his natural efficiency of 1, got enough to eat most of the time, and no caveman went hungry all the time.
On the contrary, the hostile environment of the caveman has been destroyed.
Has the hostile environment of the caveman grown more hostile for his descendants?
Nor since the day of the caveman has man's efficiency for food-getting and shelter-getting diminished.
The caveman type had long disappeared and had been forgotten; people were already living in well-built cities of brick and stone.
By night-time the caveman was ready enough to crawl into his rock-home and sleep until the sun and his clamoring appetite called him forth once more.
The caveman lived, perhaps, as many years as we—but how much did he do in those years?
The caveman called it spring when the swallows came, and autumn when the leaves changed their color.
For this reason we are now taking a third big backward step, returning, this time, not to the caveman but to ancient Babylon and Egypt, probably not less than twenty-seven hundred years ago and possibly much longer.
So I hope Michael the caveman is satisfied--that black beast--out there.
Is a woman to be done out of her wooing because a man chose once to be a caveman and talked of things belonging to him, before he'd even got them?
And with these, they have succeeded in raising their caveman environment up to the level of modern technical conveniences.
Oogie the Caveman was underneath, and already the referee was on his knees, his head bent almost to the canvas, his nose almost touching the muscled shoulder of Oogie who was underneath the Russian Bear.
Oogie the Cavemanknew his life had begun in earnest.
The caveman knitted his brows, shook his head in wonder, then, as a child does at an elder's invitation to inspect a doll, he stepped forward and fingered the suiting of the two men.
A caveman caught and soused by his first thunderstorm could not have been more pitiable.
Jennie longed to be loved by one of this race; and a caveman who came to her with violet eyes and a sweeping brown mustache possessed an appeal beyond the prehistoric.
It does not really matter how much of my present temperament I got from the communion service, and how much I got from the caveman with the club in his hand.
Is it any wonder that sometimes I feel, mingling with the emotions inspired by a recent communion service, the savagery of some long-forgotten caveman ancestor?
He was wondering if after all there was not something to be said for the methods of the caveman when he went a-wooing.
Twinges of conscience the caveman may have had when all was over, but at least he had established his right to look after the woman he loved.
