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atavistic
1. These are him atavistic instincts
2. Hillenbrand would conclude that an old signal tower, once build upon the place of atavistic pagan
3. Then, almost in answer to his primitive, atavistic reaction, they heard it
4. Therefore, says Arkes, the search for scientific truth “is a good that must not be constrained by anything atavistic and moral
5. In the small isolated room where the arid air never penetrated, nor the dust, nor the heat, both had the atavistic vision of an old man, his back to the window, wearing a hat with a brim like the wings of a crow who spoke about the world many years before they had been born
6. There is Something Ancient, Atavistic and Evil which Exists in the
7. And then the static stopped and the quiet lasted a moment, then from the Bose speakers came a primeval, atavistic voice that filled our ears and screeched across our souls like a pagan hag’s fingernails across the hoary bark of an aged oak
8. Maybe it was an involuntary, atavistic response to thousands of years of violence against women
9. Except in some atavistic part of his brain, he knows exactly what they’ll do
10. It was characteristic of an old, atavistic callousness that went with her delicacy that, even at this crisis, she did not think it unreasonable to put Sebastian in Rex's charge on the journey to Dr Borethus, and Rex, having failed her in that matter, went on to Monte Carlo, where he completed her rout
11. It was the revulsion at this alien species and my own atavistic behavior
12. Life in the world, which had caused her so much uncertainty before she was familiar with it, was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each other in society in order not to commit murder
13. Simeon Kartinkin was the atavistic production of serfdom, a stupefied, ignorant, unprincipled man, who had not even any religion
14. Simon Kartinkin was the atavistic production of serfdom, stupid, without education, and even without religion
