"Cave man" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... an enlightened American citizen. You've not seen my sister-in-law yet, Mr. Craven," he turned to the Englishman. "She's a peach! Smartest little girl in N'York. Leader of society—dollars no object—small wonder she didn't fall in with Jermyn's prehistoric notions. You're a cave man, elder brother—I put my money on Nina every time. Hell! isn't it hot?" He sank down again full length, flapping his handkerchief ...
— The Shadow of the East • E. M. Hull
... Perhaps he thought that life was like one of his books—that all he had to do was to plan a plot, and then make it work out in his own way. He said, in that first awful moment, when I knew what he had done, "I thought I could play Cave Man and get away with it." You see, he hadn't taken into consideration that I ...
— Mistress Anne • Temple Bailey
... then, palaeolithic man is separately considered as the River-drift man and the Cave man, the former believed to be much the older people, and known by the series of simplest patterns of stone implements found in the late Pleistocene river-beds. This River-drift man wandered over the greater part ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 • Various
... glimpse," David said, "of a hairy face peering around a rock. It looked like one of those pictures of a cave man one used to see in the ...
— Shepherd of the Planets • Alan Mattox
... greatest service, because in the early days of man, and before he knew enough to build his own habitation, he made the cave his home. You have heard of the 'cave man,' have you not? During the old stone period in England and other European countries, these caverns were the only abodes of man, and in them have been found layers from twenty to thirty feet thick, of successive accretions of bone, stalagmites and ...
— The Wonder Island Boys: The Mysteries of the Caverns • Roger Thompson Finlay |
