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  • Eckels turned slowly to regard the primeval garbage dump, that hill of nightmares and terror.  (source)
  • As time eats from the tombstones of the past the epitaphs of primeval greatness, and covers the pyramids with the moss of forgetfulness, she directs the eye to the new temples of art and progress that make America the monumental beacon-light of the world.  (source)
  • Then she tipped her head and looked at Edgar one-eyed, a primeval bird in its cage.†  (source)
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  • A live-oak forest of a primeval dimension loomed before us.†  (source)
    primeval = ancient
  • Far behind the corner of the house—which rose like a geranium bloom against the subdued colours around—stretched the soft azure landscape of The Chase—a truly venerable tract of forest land, one of the few remaining woodlands in England of undoubted primaeval date, wherein Druidical mistletoe was still found on aged oaks, and where enormous yew-trees, not planted by the hand of man grew as they had grown when they were pollarded for bows.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling option. The British more commonly use primeval which is also used by Americans.
  • These last were past the gym, the tennis courts, the river and the stadium, on the edge of the woods which, however English in name, were in my mind primevally American, reaching in unbroken forests far to the north, into the great northern wilderness.†  (source)
  • That night the city of San Francisco echoed with the primeval howls of a hundred thousand dogs.†  (source)
  • Upon the left bank of the stream the population is rare; from time to time one descries a troop of slaves loitering in the half-desert fields; the primaeval forest recurs at every turn; society seems to be asleep, man to be idle, and nature alone offers a scene of activity and of life.†  (source)
  • Turning, he felt his feet again tracing the invisible path of the ancient Rose Line, carrying him across the courtyard to the Carrousel du Louvre—the enormous circle of grass surrounded by a perimeter of neatly trimmed hedges—once the site of Paris's primeval nature-worshipping festivals...joyous rites to celebrate fertility and the Goddess.†  (source)
  • If thou wilt not unmask thy counterfeit, This earth will be the prey of strife once more, As when primaeval discord held its reign.†  (source)
  • A primeval monster twenty feet long.†  (source)
  • There was no way to tell by looking that the land beneath my childish feet wasn't the primeval mold I read about at school, but it was new, created by magic lines of tile my father would talk about with pleasure and reverence.†  (source)
  • When the area was first settled, the plateau was covered with a dense primeval forest.†  (source)
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