What a grand and imperial metropolis it must have been in its pristine glory!
"The Pearl of India"
Maturin M. Ballou
We must look for its pristine inspiration in its solution of another fundamental problem: that of the relation between the absolute and the empirical.
"The Approach to Philosophy"
Ralph Barton Perry
Yet by this addition, we obtain a kind of general history of at least one American tribe, and a complete original series of traditions, in their peculiar pristine style.
"The American Nations, Vol. I."
C. S. Rafinesque