How To Use Primeval In A Sentence

In some places it is primeval and wet, where streaky barked eucalyptus strive upwards through dripping mists alive with frog croaks.
With names such as Codex Sinaiticus, the Macregol Gospels and the Valenciennes Apocalypse, they evoke lost empires and ancient monasteries as surely as archaeopteryx and ceratosaurus conjure up primeval swamps and forests. GetReligion
I imagined the Tasmanian tiger stopping here en route from one primeval forest valley to another.
Our experience of how human minds work provides an analogy to how a primeval, creator mind probably worked.
exfoliated" surface sheets which here, too, gave it an inhuman, primeval look; in the higher sun the vast expanse looked, I suppose, more blindingly white; and nowhere did buildings or thickets seem to emerge. Over Prairie Trails

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Our fears seem less primeval when we notice that the island's warden, Adrian, is staring at the tide and looking concerned.
Football fans will perhaps be pleased to know that the word huddle, from a Germanic verb to do with “crowding together” could it come from a primeval idea of a group hiding from animals or people, or protecting someone or something from being found or seen by others? The English Is Coming!
The stone cages have a curiously sensual, primeval quality, like the ancient dry stone walls in fields.
Hither ascended a _cantonnier_ when the new road was made up the valley, and here he found chipped flints of primeval man, a polished celt, a scrap of Samian ware, and in a niche at the side sealed up with stalactite, a tiny earthenware pitcher 2-1/2 inches high, a leaden spindle-whorl, some shells, and a toy sheep-bell. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe
In addition to primeval heat, Earth's core also gets heat from radioactive decay of uranium, thorium, and potassium.
Suddenly, and with appalling quickness the mastodonic brute reared itself on its mighty hind legs and elongated its neck and body in an effort to reach this vociferous pigmy whose clamor was disturbing the primeval silence of its horrible realm. The Conquering Sword Of Conan
The fundamental particles of matter - the strings and infons and other noumena - fell out of the primeval cosmic energy THE BROKEN GOD
The natural, primeval clock is the sun, by whose light we see to perform our daily tasks.
They approach the primeval mystery of human attraction with a systematic and almost Promethean hand.
I should prefer to watch him in the primeval forests of his native land, wielding an axe against some giant tree.
Before their imaginations had fully wakened out of the primeval dream, the cosmogonies and theogonies, gross and monstrous, of their national infancy, they were asked to have an opinion about the classical mythology, as represented by the Latin poets; they were made acquainted with the miracles of the lives of saints. Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature
The explorer spun many fantastic tales about his adventures in the primeval forests.
This is life in a swamp, a primeval wet forest from which the great diversity of Australia's modern fauna sprung.
Brian felt it the moment he entered the city limits - a sudden primeval chill, an instinctive animal watchfulness.
Among the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval forests undefaced by the hand of man; whether those of Brazil, where the powers of Life are predominant, or those of Tierra del Fuego, where Death and Decay prevail. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
Equally, non-parents need to respect the fact that the parent-child bond is incredibly strong, to an almost primeval degree.
He felt the past, vast and primeval, rush over him like a tide.
The fair lady of the gentleman in charge of the fort was the _only lady_ at the place, and indeed the only one within a circuit of six hundred miles -- which space, being the primeval forest, was inhabited only by wild beasts and a few Indians. Hudson Bay
As Darwin argued in Descent, this quasi-polygenetic version of coevolution was unable to explain primeval man's initial dominance over rival ape-like populations. Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
The soma-haoma, a drink-offering common to both Indian Vedism and Iranian Parseeism, must be dated back to primeval times, when the Indians and the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
Brian felt it the moment he entered the city limits - a sudden primeval chill, an instinctive animal watchfulness.
Then the primeval Prince Montevarchi came to a violent end at the hands of his librarian, leaving his English princess consolable but unconsoled, leaving also his daughter Flavia married to that other Giovanni Don Orsino
Genesis 12 marks a shift from primeval history to the stories of the patriarchs.
The Ancient Gods moved across the face of the primeval waters, and from their union and council came the shapers of the universal Mei, who, both together and alone, began the shape of what was to come.
Body armour is one of the few consistently continuing threads which link the modern warrior not only with his primeval ancestor but also with warriors throughout the history of mankind.
You invoke the basic, primeval instincts inherent in all animals.
Brian felt it the moment he entered the city limits - a sudden primeval chill, an instinctive animal watchfulness.
Her mind rebelled, clinging with stunning primeval ferocity to that deep-rooted fear of losing control.
South of the reeds, Gordon disappeared into a primeval interior of naked animists and mapless swamps, where the connected world of Cairo and the coast lost all meaning. Three Empires on the Nile
As I drew a still fresher soil about the rows with my hoe, I disturbed the ashes of unchronicled nations who in primeval years lived under these heavens, and their small implements of war and hunting were brought to the light of this modern day. Walden
Decent folk who'd left behind the corrupt world - always somewhere to the east - came to a land of primeval beauty and promise and set about turning a little chunk of it into a nice, prosperous garden.
Arresting in their circularity, these poems achieve a primeval force that is like some great lost original rhythm.
The Creator must have created the first organism, or a few organisms, from which all others are derived, and as such he must have created the simplest Monera, or primeval cytods, and given them the capability of developing further in a mechanical way. 2006 June - Telic Thoughts
He had bolted for good, vanished into the mysterious deeps of the primeval forest, whether hurt unto death, or merely "nipped" in a fore-leg, as Herb inclined to think, nobody knew. Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods
Down came the rain, thunder and lightning, providing nature's primeval accompaniment.
But there are a number of circumstances (especially chorological facts) which suggest that the primeval home of man was a continent now sunk below the surface of the Indian Ocean, which extended along the south of Asia, as it is at present (and probably in direct connection with it), towards the east, as far as Further India and the Sunda Islands; towards the west, as far as Madagascar and the south-eastern shores of Africa. The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria
Remember, the naïve innocent starts out automatically and without reservations accepting what people in authority say without the cynic's primeval urge to question, question and question.
Central to the concept is the paradox that while we believe we can tame nature we also seek to learn about our deepest desires and inclinations by communing with the primeval.
The whole scene is so primeval that we would stand gaping all afternoon if the westering arc of the sun didn't jog us on our way.
Material adopt Russia primeval forest high grade seeds of trees, ashtree, oak wood are raw material.
I should prefer to watch him in the primeval forests of his native land, wielding an axe against some giant tree.
This was told in several impressive episodes, from primeval Britons through Romans, Saxons and Stuarts.
Somewhere behind the storm, the orchestra achieved a primaeval crescendo. PASSION IN THE PEAK
It was a scene of primeval wilderness in the midst of managed National Trust landscape, made all the more mystical by the fact we were standing on a small, circular platform of sheep knucklebones. Country diary: Allen Banks, Northumberland
In Germany, for example, the forest primeval was the site of tribal self-assertion against the Roman empire of stone and law.
Known to his squad as Gideon since before the origins of such things were traceable, he carried an aura of the primeval warrior about him. DISPLACED PERSON
Ever after, he would love her for this deep, primeval beauty, and he would cherish this quality above all others. THE BROKEN GOD
Thursday the Royal Burial Mound and the other burial places and the port and the primeval forest.
Another poor choice in this respect was his gnarling, patronizing, primeval bearing at the debate. Paul Jenkins: John McCain: Unfit for the Presidency
DNA is the common thread that links every living thing with a single primeval ancestor.
For most of the time that there has been music on this earth, it has been repetitive and while I can appreciate complexity in music, it is the repetition which gets the more primeval instincts going.
Inside the buildings, slender supporting columns under canopies of steel tubing recover for him the primeval notion of sheltering trees, and a full-scale mock-up in the cortile gives the impression of a delicate forest.
Freud approaches this situation by way of the model of the primeval id set against the cultivations of the superego; Marcuse counterpoints the libidinous Eros impulse against the regulating structures of Civilisation.
I've been studying them, wondering at the diet of the bear, how he can sustain himself on grasses and what appear to be shoots of thimbleberry and primeval horsetails.
Suddenly and with appalling quickness, the mastodonic brute reared up on its mighty hindlegs and elongated its neck and body in a furious effort to reach this vociferous pigmy whose clamor was disturbing the primeval silence of its ancient realm. Conan The Warrior
The grandeur of towering pines, the mysterious dimness of illimitable arcades, and the peculiar resinous odor that stole like lingering ghosts of myrrh, frankincense and onycha through the vaulted solitude of a deserted hoary sanctuary, all these phases of primeval Southern forests combined to weave a spell that the stranger could not resist. At the Mercy of Tiberius
Happy to see the tradition of Hannah Spearrit in her knickers is being continued. #primeval The Egyptian stuff ... wince. Tweets I have known
Extraordinarily, the staff seemed to understand his primeval form of communication.
But there is something absurd about the way they circle this territory like two ancient stags, their antlers locked in some primeval combat, whose origins is long forgotten.
Freud approaches this situation by way of the model of the primeval id set against the cultivations of the superego; Marcuse counterpoints the libidinous Eros impulse against the regulating structures of Civilisation.
A Taoist Holyland for 1,600 years, Sanqing Nountain is known for its many grotesque rocks, waterfalls and lush primeval forest set in a sea of clouds and mist.
Exposed by a recent forest fire, the primeval topography of these Catalan Vineyard terraces has a potent grandeur shaped by both the forces of nature and the hand of human intervention.
She opened her mouth to call again, but instead, obeying she knew not what primeval instinct, went, soft-footed, towards the kitchen. DEATH SPEAKS SOFTLY
Angela Carter, too, relished the primeval terrors of the fairy tale world, rekindling it in her own tales of bloody chambers and rampant wolves.
Or, rather, he had invented for himself a language which used the sinews of the languages to which he had been exposed-and once I thought that his was, not the Adamic language that a happy mankind had spoken, all united by a single tongue from the origin of the world to the Tower of Babel, or one of the languages that arose after the dire event of their division, but precisely the Babelish language of the first day after the divine chastisement, the language of primeval confusion. The Name of the Rose
He has this wonderful picture of London in the fog and the mud and the wet and everything, and he says, you know, ` So much fog and there's so much appearing that it would not be a wonder if a megalosaurus were seen walking along Hobin Hill because it seemed almost primeval, the swamplike nature of London. ' Karl Marx: A Life
His huge, intimidating teeth made him look primeval, and his osteodermal plates gleamed black in the sun—a dinosaur, living here among us. Steve and Me
Suddenly and with appalling quickness, the mastodonic brute reared up on its mighty hind legs and elongated its neck and body in a furious effort to reach this vociferous pigmy whose clamor was disturbing the primeval silence of its ancient realm. The Conquering Sword of Conan
They left the past behind, in Africa, the Amazon, and elsewhere - primeval places, filled with primeval peoples at different stages in the evolution of civilization.
A thousand times that day, in the dark swamp, on the wide prairie, or under his rush-thatch on the lake-side, he tortured himself with one question: Why had she -- Zoséphine -- reached away out from Carancro to buy the uncultivable and primeval wilderness round about his lonely hiding-place? Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana
The primeval pines up here are of gigantic size, rising from eighty to over a hundred feet, enormous in girth, and garlanded with hoary grey-green moss, the growth of centuries. Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
They look so ancient and their seed pods often look primeval, but they turn out to be one of the more recent species around - still speciating, said the eucalyptologist.
Green Mountains -- and pushed but a little way back in these hundred and fifty years, lies the primeval forest, trodden no longer now by the wasting redman, but untamed yet, almost unhandselled. Fort Amity
Among the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval forests undefaced by the hand of man; whether those of Brazil, where the powers of Life are predominant, or those of Tierra del Fuego, where Death and decay prevail. "Our Voyage having come to an end..."
Under these pressures and the additional torments of yellow fever, all the veneers of civilization peel away and ‘the brutishness of primeval man burst forth.’
The water has a primeval chemistry that has prevailed along submarine mountain ranges since the breakup of Gondwanaland.
His orb itself, or later the god in youthful human form, might be pictured as emerging from a lotus on the primaeval waters, or from a marsh-bird's egg, a conception which influenced the later Phoenician cosmogeny. Legends of Babylon and Egypt in relation to Hebrew tradition
In such cases, the traditions of earlier ages, or of some higher and more educated caste which has been destroyed, may give rise to the notion of degeneracy from a primaeval state of superior intelligence, or of science supernaturally communicated. The Antiquity of Man
I like amber that way, because I know how it was made, drinking the primeval weather, resinously beading each grain of its rare wood, and dripping with a plash to filter through and around the fallen cones below. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860
In the depth of the forest the primeval stillness was a bit awesome until a family of wild piglets moved in and started to root reassuringly through the chestnuts at my feet.
But more importantly it is able to tap in to the psyche, the primeval, the indiscernible something that makes us human beings.
But the banks continue to be muddy primeval ooze.
In the primeval Earth, single-celled creatures joined up to become multicelled ones, surrendering independence in exchange for collective power. World Wide Mind
There are a multitude of chemical pathways leading to life," says Drake, such as zapping the primeval atmosphere with lightning or cooking simple molecules in the heat of a volcano or deep-sea vent: "Where a planet is suitable, life will pop out all over. ET, PHONE US
There were many of these "ridgeway" routes in prehistoric Europe, allowing travelers to bypass the thick woods and primeval swamps that covered much of lowland Europe at that time. Gadling
The lane behind and to the north of that last row of houses continues for miles in both the easterly and westerly directions, and it serves to provide two points of entry into that primeval world.
The solitary bellbird chiefly, whose voice may he heard sometimes, disturbs the primeval solitude with its single sharp note, which resounds through the grove with so great a resemblance to a sheep bell that it requires Ralph Rashleigh
These developments led to the eventual rise of the Neptunist school, which advocated precipitation from a primeval ocean to produce the ancient crystalline rocks.
The early universe was filled with radiation and a plenum of matter, originally hydrogen and helium, formed from elementary particles in the dense primeval fireball.
He suggests that the link between plants and man lies hidden in primeval ecosystems inhabited by cycads, rhizomes and coral.
Fanned by a constant updraught of ventilation between the kitchen and the chimneyflue, ignition was communicated from the faggots of precombustible fuel to polyhedral masses of bituminous coal, containing in compressed mineral form the foliated fossilised decidua of primeval forests which had in turn derived their vegetative existence from the sun, primal source of heat (radiant), transmitted through omnipresent luminiferous diathermanous ether. Ulysses
In some places it is primeval and wet, where streaky barked eucalyptus strive upwards through dripping mists alive with frog croaks.
I was feeling kind of disapproved, like I was not good enough or something. .and being scared I just reacted, kind of, in a very primeval behaviour. Jaeaxe Diary Entry
Eckels is hurtled back to a primeval jungle to bag the biggest of game, the Tyrannosaurus rex, with the added charge that he must not disturb any other part of the natural world, lest he upset the delicate time-space continuum.
Initially, Shenandoah supporters emphasized the scenic and primeval qualities of the park along with its recreational and restorative potential.
Any scientific hypothesis on the origin of the world, such as that of the primeval atom from which the whole of the physical world derived, leaves open the problem concerning the beginning of the Universe.
Ever after, he would love her for this deep, primeval beauty, and he would cherish this quality above all others. THE BROKEN GOD
Ever after, he would love her for this deep, primeval beauty, and he would cherish this quality above all others. THE BROKEN GOD
Tramping through the primeval swamp, you re not thinking of ancient seas or planetary evolution.
Man has risen from the vitalized slime of the primeval sea to the mastery of matter; but he has not yet mastered society. Goliah
‘Getting square’ is the primeval act of revenge - on an informer or somebody who has transgressed the protocols and proprieties of criminal boundaries.
The spot where once the fine parterre overlooked the river, and the bold stoccade enclosed the neat and substantial fort, is now overgrown with weeds and bushes, and can scarce be distinguished from the primeval forest which surrounds it on every side. Townsend Chapter 10
Getting up in the mornings becomes more difficult, going home in the evenings seems to provoke a primeval instinct for slumping in front of the television or crawling under the duvet.
Ever after, he would love her for this deep, primeval beauty, and he would cherish this quality above all others. THE BROKEN GOD
The trees outside camp appeared as dark pillars gating a primeval hell, where behind lay only an abyss, hiding the forms of carrion crying from its depths to break the stillness.
This is a very primeval shame, deeply seated in man's psyche.
Primeval clouds of gas formed themselves into stars.
Suddenly and with appalling quickness, the mastodonic brute reared up on its mighty hind legs and elongated its neck and body in a furious effort to reach this vociferous pygmy whose clamor was disturbing the primeval silence of its ancient realm. Conan The Warrior
After islands or continents were raised above the primeval ocean, great numbers of the most simple animals would attempt to seek food at the edges or shores of the new land, and might thence gradually become amphibious; as is now seen in the frog, who changes from an aquatic animal to an amphibious one; and in the gnat, which changes from a natant to a volant state. Canto I
It was found amongst other fossilized remains of the megatherium, megalonyx, and other primeval creatures. Times, Sunday Times
Fresh from a hot shower and a good night's sleep under white sheets, she now strides a few yards into a primeval world - the rich cacophony of a thriving tropical forest.
As we lounged, slapping grey mud on our faces in a bid to cleanse our pores, if not our livers, it began to snow, the flakes descending into the rising steam as if fighting some ancient primeval battle.
The oaks were supposedly the remnants of a primeval forest, site of Druidic rites, home to Gallic tribes, and emblems of justice-dispensing monarchs like Saint Louis.
Discribed the SUNRISO company's primeval enterprise strategic program.
As we lounged, slapping grey mud on our faces in a bid to cleanse our pores, if not our livers, it began to snow, the flakes descending into the rising steam as if fighting some ancient primeval battle.
The downs are a great mass of chalk resulting from some primeval upheaval which give the northern half of the county its distinctive rounded look, with great hump-backed hills like Martinsell near Oare, Milk Hill and Tan Hill.
David's abandonment in the forest primeval is also his deliverance from destruction, Moses left in the bulrushes.
Moreover, there was an inspiring chasm between the knowledge that factories and towns lay only a little beyond sight, and the bleak feeling that the primeval cold and the gyring of the snow flakes had wiped away all civilization.
Now, I can't be sure, but I'm fairly confident that this child could have handled the nose job and Botox, for example, but when his mommy smiled - revealing the full force of her glaring white gnashers - he felt pure, primeval fear.
Westmoreland County, did he feel once more identified with his surroundings; at the station he saw a star he knew, and a cold moon bright over Chesapeake Bay; he heard the rasping wheels of buckboards turning, the lovely fatuous voices, the sound of sluggish primeval rivers flowing softly under soft Indian names. Tender is the Night
Anyway, about twice a year I still get the primeval urge to eat offal.
‘Getting square’ is the primeval act of revenge - on an informer or somebody who has transgressed the protocols and proprieties of criminal boundaries.
The characteristic apricot scent of these prized wild mushrooms triggers primeval hunter gatherer instincts, making a country walk attractive to even the most hardened townie.
Indeed, the modern fascination with exotic, primeval creatures had its origins deep within the fossil collections of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, many of which were gathered in Britain by clergymen.
Known to his squad as Gideon since before the origins of such things were traceable, he carried an aura of the primeval warrior about him. DISPLACED PERSON
But he was in the grip of a rage of primeval proportions, a berserker fury that gave him a strength beyond his normal means. THE LAST TEMPTATION
Is it not a form of self desecration not to cultivate this primeval delight in flowers?
There is a constant struggle to win back the Garden from the erosions of time and the encroachments of the forest primeval.
The place is renowned for its fine trees and primeval oak wood, which is carpeted with bluebells in spring.
He wore a colorless, primeval terry-cloth bathrobe that had been picked and shredded to a mangy condition.
Roger Deakin, whose aquatic voyage round Britain is charted in his book, Waterlog, believes the roots of our deep affinity with water are primeval.
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I would be a fool to try and fathom the primeval instinct that exists in all men that draws them to amateur civil engineering.
But, Willy, the supports of life are not to be found in primeval rocks or antediluvial remains. The King's Own
As the sun sets over Kanha, the forest reverts to its primeval magic.
The experience is so viscerally thrilling, so primeval and satisfying, a huge laugh of relief and joy escapes from my chest.
Barefoot elfin girls dance in primeval delight, the Arch-Druid drinks the wine of welcome out of the Horn of Hirlas, a throwback to the drinking horns of 12 th Century Welsh princes.
We have shivered in the Benguela current off the Cape, partly from cold, partly from primaeval instinct.

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