Some primitive animal abandoned the worm-like habit, and attached itself, like a polyp, to the floor.

It is our primitive animal instincts we are so proud of: our social instincts we scarcely recognize.

The worm is the real primitive animal.

The eyes were narrowed against the harsh light of the station and filled with a primitive animal intensity.

A short time ago I called the oyster the primitive animal, but I was in too great a hurry.

But they serve to illustrate the fact that infancy and childhood duplicate, in the individual, the primitive animal life on earth.

There was something leonine about him at the moment, something of the primitive animal roused from its lair and scenting danger.

Man is the heir to all the past, and the instincts and emotions of the primitive animal are strong in his being.

A man had no smallest doubt as to why he was drawn; it was a direct appeal to the most primitive animal nature in him.

Hence the symbolic use of leather-primitiveanimal hide-forwhips and fetish clothing.

The greater number of these marbles were stamped with the marks of primitive animals.

Corals are primitive animals most closely related to jellyfish.

All around me were the well-dressed descendants of primitive animals, whizzing about in bright motors, past tall, soaring buildings.

The mammals of the Mesozoic had been small and primitive animals, rarely larger than a rat, and never rising above the marsupial stage in organisation.

The plant can and does exist, living almost purely for digestion and reproduction, and the same is true of the lowest and most primitive animals.

"Americanly chivalrous to the fingertips, and with just enough of the primitive animal in him to ward off monotony."