primaeval
Britishadjective
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In Ireland, Spain and Greece once-stable systems have become primaeval political soups from which all manner of governments may emerge.
From Economist
Age has just the least in the world dimmed the lustre we once knew, but an unmistakable breath of the morning still encircles him, and the odour of primaeval woods.
From Project Gutenberg
But in the middle of her speech she falls into a primaeval doze of some eighteen hundred years.
From Project Gutenberg
Most of the dwellings were miserable huts built of sacking and other rubbish, and standing in small clearings made in the thick, primaeval scrub.
From Project Gutenberg
The young archer, causing water to spring from the rock by a shot from his bow, marks the miraculous cessation of prehistoric dearth, as the bull leaping from a skiff perhaps commemorates a primaeval deluge.
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