primaeval
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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If thou wilt not unmask thy counterfeit, This earth will be the prey of strife once more, As when primaeval discord held its reign.
From Don Quixote by Ormsby, John
She went through those awful moments as a woman possessed, blindly obeying the compelling force, goaded by sheer, primaeval instinct to protect her own.
From The Way of an Eagle by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)
The yearly phenomenon brought home to the minds of the Babylonians, a picture of primaeval chaos.
From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Jastrow, Morris
But in the middle of her speech she falls into a primaeval doze of some eighteen hundred years.
From William Blake A Study of His Life and Art Work by Langridge, Irene
The grip of the primaeval had laid hold of her heart!
From The Lady of Big Shanty by Smith, F. Berkeley (Frank Berkeley)
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