primaeval
Britishadjective
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This poem deals with the overthrow of the primaeval order of Gods by Jupiter, son of Saturn the old king.
From Keats: Poems Published in 1820 by Robertson, M. (Margaret)
The fertile loam forming the bottoms was densely covered with the growth of the primaeval forest, broken here and there by glade-like openings, where herds of game grazed on the tall, thick grass.
From The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 by Roosevelt, Theodore
But how would it have been possible for Milton to have enriched his poetry with all these elements in a primaeval age, when many of them did not exist?
From The World's Best Poetry, Volume 10 Poetical Quotations by Carman, Bliss
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 Notes of a Son and Brother by James, Henry
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 A Vendetta of the Desert by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)
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