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Example sentences for "primeval"

Lexicographically close words:
primero; primeros; primers; primes; primest; primi; primigenius; priming; primis; primitif
  1. That journey through the primeval forest with the nine great apes will live in the memory of Bertha Kircher for the balance of her life, as clearly delineated as at the moment of its enactment.

  2. Between him and destination lay a trackless wilderness of untouched primeval savagery where, doubtless in many spots, his would be the first human foot to touch the virgin turf.

  3. Below him lay a deep valley through the center of which dense jungle vegetation marked the course of a river beyond which a primeval forest extended for miles to terminate at last at the foot of lofty, snow-capped mountains.

  4. Certainly it was not coral like that on and about the coast, but of a primeval formation.

  5. However this might be, Bastin's primeval instincts and abilities were of the utmost service to us.

  6. There is nothing like a primeval wood for color on a sunny day.

  7. There must exist somewhere sinless women who could eat these berries without being reminded of the lost purity and delicacy of the primeval senses.

  8. Failing to apprehend the primeval man, science has sought the primitive man where he exists as a survival in present savage races.

  9. The afternoon we descended Marcy, we went away to the west, through the primeval forests, toward Avalanche and Colden, and followed the course of the charming Opalescent.

  10. Then shall the Age be changed into the primeval silence; seven days, as at the first beginning so that no man shall be left.

  11. On the whole it has confirmed my view of the considerations which drew me from the world of learning and art to the primeval forest.

  12. Solitude of the primeval forest, how can I ever thank you enough for what you have been to me?

  13. How valuable bottles and boxes are away from the civilised world only he can rightly estimate who has had to get medicines ready in the primeval forest for patients to take home with them!

  14. Thus it came to pass that the man of science was soon lost in the depths of that primeval forest!

  15. This was the primeval wilderness, and these were no common foes.

  16. Or does some isle thy parting flight detain, Where roves the Indian through primeval shades, Haunts the pure pleasures of the sylvan reign, And led by reason's light the path of nature treads.

  17. Beyond a certain point both needed new light and leading; for the primeval spirit of strife never spontaneously weakened; the original Icelandic stock being, to begin with, a selection of revolters from over-rule.

  18. The beginnings of medical knowledge for all mankind lay of necessity in the primeval lore of the savage; and the nations which carried it furthest in antiquity were just those who learned what others had to give, and improved upon it.

  19. He shone upon the earth from primeval time, he the Disk, the prince of light and radiance.

  20. NUT, woman-headed, the female counterpart of the gods Nu and Seb; she was the personification of the primeval water, and later of the sky.

  21. From these statements we learn that Temu and R[=a] were one and the same god, and that he was the first offspring of the god Nu, the primeval watery mass out of which all the gods came into being.

  22. According to an old view, Seb and Nut existed in the primeval watery abyss side by side with Shu and Tefnut; and later Seb became the earth and Nut the sky.

  23. I evolved with the evolutions of the god Khepera; I evolved by the evolution of evolutions--that is to say, I developed myself from the primeval matter which I made, I developed myself out of the primeval matter.

  24. I evolved myself under the form of the evolutions of the god Khepera, and I developed myself out of the primeval matter which has evolved multitudes of evolutions from the beginning of time.

  25. In this condition the primeval water remained for a considerable time, notwithstanding that it contained within it the germs of the things which afterwards came into existence in this world, and the world itself.

  26. Conditions have altered radically since the dawn of history, thousands of years of education and refining influences have tamed the primeval man and woman and taught them how to keep their instincts, their passions, under control.

  27. As Grace watched him, the thought was impressed upon her more strongly than ever that this man was far happier here amid primeval conditions, thrown upon his own resources, than he had been in a so-called civilized state.

  28. The primeval man, the beast, would assert his rights and only death could save her honor from the exercise of his brutal force.

  29. They had returned to primeval conditions.

  30. We might also say: 'Scratch civilized man and you'll find a primeval brute.

  31. The Beginnings of Land Plants It is highly probable that for long ages the waters covered the earth, and that all the primeval vegetation consisted of simple Flagellates in the universal Open Sea.

  32. In these forests the jointed-footed invaders of the dry land ran riot in the form of centipedes, spiders, scorpions, and insects, and on these the primeval Amphibians fed.

  33. It occurs even in man, a short-lived relic of the primeval supporting axis of the body.

  34. The coherence of the daughter-cells into which the fertilised egg-cell divides is a reminiscence, as it were, of the primeval coherence of daughter-units that made the first body possible.

  35. Still, until about a century ago it presented only a picture of primeval desolation.

  36. It is well worth a pilgrimage from far-away lands to make the acquaintance, solitary and alone, of the primeval New Zealand forests, where there are no reptiles to dread and no wild animals to encounter.

  37. The neighborhood is one of primeval loneliness, invaded only by an occasional traveller; but a brief visit to Lake St. Clair and Lake Sorell leaves a delightful picture upon the memory not soon to be obliterated.

  38. No more than fifteen seemed to reach the Jersey shore, there to creep vaguely, slowly away and vanish in the dense primeval woods.

  39. In a few moments more the evening air in the dim forest aisles was gladdened by the ruddy blaze of a camp-fire at the door of the lean-to, and for the first time smoke went wafting up among the branches of that primeval wood.

  40. And for some miles to southward the primeval forests had been vanquished by the ever-extending hand of this new, swiftly growing race.

  41. Clad only in her loose tiger-skin, clasped with gold, she moved like a primeval goddess.

  42. From the square tower the view extended over a forest of primeval oak, beyond the broad meadows flanking the river.

  43. The master picked up a large bone, sharp as a needle, the fin of some primeval fish.

  44. The home of the primeval man, or ascending-ape, whichever it or he was, is one of the difficult facts to settle.

  45. Theistic Evolution allows the intervention of God at the creation of the primeval "fire-mist" and at the origin of life and the production of man's spiritual nature.

  46. But the source of all, the primeval protoplasm, is wanting.

  47. He presented a tree, showing twenty or more stages between primeval protoplasm and man, but this has been now rejected by evolutionists.

  48. The missing primeval germ or germs leaves the tree without a root, and Prof.

  49. We are told that, given time enough, all this series of changes from the primeval cell to the modern philosopher or scientist is possible.

  50. Haeckel insists that the theory demands but a single primeval germ as the ancestor of all living things.

  51. Yonder armorer, polishing a joint of steel, seemed like a survivor of that primeval epoch when the trees were roofs and the ground the universal bed.

  52. Soon the brighter green of her gown fluttered amid the somber-tinted pines and elms, as the younger forest growth merged into a stern array of primeval monarchs.

  53. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.

  54. Then the opening of the canal was another disturber of primeval calm.

  55. In front of them, rising out of a wilderness of roses, blossoming where nothing but sand had shown since the primeval sea receded from the hills, was the flag of that empire, its folds drooping round the mast.

  56. The country proved to be primeval forest, almost trackless, its tropical undergrowth a veritable jungle of thorns and vines.

  57. The primeval history as we read it, therefore, is derived in part from J, in part from P.

  58. Blood-stained he issues from the dismal forest; He leaves it such, a thousand years from now In its primeval state 'tis not re-wooded.

  59. The spot was indeed a perfect desert, there were neither promenaders nor passers-by, nor was there even the shadow of a prowler in the pillared forest of the colonnade, which was as empty as the wild primeval forests of the world's infancy.


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