"Primeval" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... A vast primeval palisade, With bastions bold and wooded crest, A bulwark strong by nature made To guard the ...
— The Hudson - Three Centuries of History, Romance and Invention • Wallace Bruce
... the other day," said Mrs. Graves, "stated that men ought to do primeval things, eat under-done beef, sleep in their clothes, drink too much, kill things. It sounds disgusting; but I ...
— Watersprings • Arthur Christopher Benson
... in Oregon, and a third in Red River Settlement, they are not considered available for every case of emergency that may chance to occur in the hundreds of little outposts, scattered far and wide over the whole continent of North America, with miles and miles of primeval wilderness between each. We do not think, therefore, that when we say there are no doctors in the country, we use a ...
— The Young Fur Traders • R.M. Ballantyne
... without a quiver of the lid should find nothing repulsive. Everything that is is the ordered and calculable result of environment. Nothing can be abhorrent, nothing blameworthy, nothing contrary to nature. Can we exceed nature? In the presence of the primeval and ever-continuing forces of nature, can we maintain our fantastic conceptions of sin and of justice? We are, and that is all we should dare to say. And yet, when I saw Diaz stretched on that wretched bed my first movement was one of physical disgust. He had not shaved for several ...
— Sacred And Profane Love • E. Arnold Bennett
... and righteous provisions made for the restraint of the licentiousness and brutishness of man in the primeval days of our commonwealth; and wherein it has since sunk away from these original organic laws the people have only weakened and degraded themselves, and hindered that virtuous and happy prosperity which would otherwise in far larger degree ...
— Luther and the Reformation: - The Life-Springs of Our Liberties • Joseph A. Seiss
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