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Meanings of primitive force in English

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Usage of primitive force in English
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You feel I know not what primitive force which repels and yet fascinates you.
The Moon and Sixpence
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Shock rippled through her as her flesh shrank back from the raw, primitive force.
Immortal wolf
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There was in you that reserve of primitive force, that epic grandeur and simplicity of diction.
Letters to Dead Authors
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Somehow she knew that she was in the presence of a big elementary danger-somethinggross and terrible in its primitive force.
The Green Rust
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It suggests her singularity, and her kind of primitive force that could be monstrous, and her rampant sense of her mythic stature.
The Irish Times
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As Fosdick would have said, "The race vitality being exhausted in its primitive force, nothing has come to take its place."
Together
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Howat was suddenly conscious of the pressure of vast, unguessed regions, primitive forces, illimitable wildernesses.
The Three Black Pennys: A Novel
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They had always dealt with fundamental, primitive forces.
Still Jim
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New elements have entered into combination with old ones; powerful foreign forces have interfered to oppose primitive forces.
Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books / with Introductions, Not...
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She had become suddenly a woman of Andalusia and the South, moved by certain primitive forces in the blood.
Marriage à la mode
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But the average man still acts mainly under the pressure of the more primitive forces which we have enumerated.
Problems of Conduct: An Introductory Survey of Ethics
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It is hopelessly ignorant of prehistoric or agrarian cultures, where tribal rituals monitored and invoked the primitive forces of nature.
Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
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Simpson, the employer, and Défago the employed, among these primitive forces, were simply-twomen, the "guider" and the "guided."
The Wendigo
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"The primitive forces of life still give us emotions, when we are not wild; when we are then it is the jolliest hell."
His Hour
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