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It is to be observed that primevally among the Norse the ash alone stood for man.

From Algonquin Legends of New England by Leland, Charles Godfrey

The rock, whose cleft the river had primevally chosen, was here more broken than above; various edges protruded maddeningly as Flor skimmed by almost within reach.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 by Various

His dress suit, primevally old, would scarcely, she reflected, hold together another winter.

From The Mating of Lydia by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

There is not even a certainty whether, primevally or archaically, "there were several original alphabetical systems, or whether one is to be assumed as having given rise to the various modes of writing in use."

From Five Years of Theosophy by Various

It is vast and silent, and, though our homesteads are crude and new, once you pass the breaking, it’s primevally old.

From Masters of the Wheat-Lands by Bindloss, Harold