Sentence examples for primaeval from inspiring English sources

Much of the land is primaeval forest which has never been touched by humans - never chopped down, never farmed, hardly even explored.

Beast by Ally Kennan Marion Lloyd/Scholasticc, £6.99) His father's a drunken vagrant, his absent mother's "a nutter" and Stephen is harbouring a 12-foot primaeval beast caged (for the present) in a reservoir.

It was something primaeval – he knew what he wanted.

It certainly is not satisfactory either to the moralist or to the philosopher that as we approach the twentieth century of Christian civilisation we should have improved so little on the manners of those primaeval monsters that "tare each other in the slime," and should have discovered no durable substitute for the horrible arbitrament of the sword.

A favourite at Mayfair's Blue Angel, he also popularised the calypso in the primaeval British rock'n'roll film Rock You Sinners (1957), and sung the credits for BBC TV's Port Calypso show.

But Auerbach's matted, moist, dank and rusted imagination dwells not on the new and the optimistic, but on the startling voids and archaeological excavations of the deep-dug foundations: his eye goes down there, into the mud, the primaeval clay, the ancient London revealed by the builder's preparations.

Before the fall, Adam had "dominion of natural liberty and perfection," according to the "primaeval natural law"; afterwards, although Marchia admitted that there was a "remnant of natural law," basically it had to be replaced by positive law and the dominion of "servile necessity" and the "power of compulsion".