If I were to bring my strongest objection to American country life, it would be its ambitious desire to ape the towns, converting the ease and abandon of a village, into the formality and stiffness that render children in the clothes of grown people so absurdly ludicrous.

But that no true ape appeared among them, I do distinctly recollect, having been on the watch for the representation of such an epoch in the pictured history.

The smallest either took to the air to become the bat, or, like the forerunners of the squirrel and ape, took to the trees.

It is said they ape our ritual.

Here he is but the ape of a monkey.

As Master Harry, who had no great stomach for such a combat, and no very particular interest in the quarrel, was making for the door, a little Portuguese, as withered and as nimble as an ape, came ducking under the table and plunged at his stomach with a great long knife, which, had it effected its object, would surely have ended his adventures then and there.

A wanton woman is the figure of imperfection; in nature an ape, in quality a wagtail, in countenance a witch, and in condition a kind of devil.

He is like an ape, that loves to do whatsoever he sees others do, and is always as busy as a child at play.

But he wished to ape Charlemagne and the Caesars and to establish an universal Empire: a thing totally impossible in our days and much to be deprecated were it possible.

"The wretched ape!

The standard was sometimes surmounted by a human head wearing the feather of Ma[=a]t; sometimes by the head of a jackal, the animal sacred to Anubis; and sometimes by the head of an ibis, the bird sacred to Thoth; in the Papyrus of Ani a dog-headed ape, the associate of Thoth, sits on the top of the standard.

In the Papyrus of Neb-qet at Paris this beast is seen lying by the side of a lake of fire, at each corner of which is seated a dog-headed ape; this lake is also seen in Chapter CXXVI.

The tongue of the balance having been examined by Anubis, and the ape having indicated to his associate Thoth that the beam is exactly straight, and that the heart, therefore, counterbalances the feather symbolic of Ma[=a]t (i.e., right, truth, law, etc.), neither outweighing nor underweighing it, Thoth writes down the result, and then makes the following address to the gods: "Hear ye this judgment.

Wherever art has travelled out of her proper sphere to ape nature, she has proved herself but a miserable mimic, even in her most approved efforts.

"To mimick, to imitate or ape for sport; a mimic, one who imitates or mimics."Ib.

Puzzled ape-man.

Ape and essence.

The ape-man vanished.

In the ape's path.

Up from the ape.

Understanding ape.

Rope for an ape.

And some have scoff'd as proud to bear Brute heart in human shape; Nor drop nor morsel deign'd to share With alien or with ape. Poor Jacko!

He had proved that, however they might ape the part, the barons were not as a matter of fact the absolute lords of Ireland; that they had a master beyond the sea; one who, if aroused, could make the boldest of them shake in his coat of mail.

But he is glad to escape when a messenger arrives opportunely to announce that a yellow ape has frightened the princess.

A tempting turnip's silver skin Drew a base hog through thick and thin: Bought with a stag's delicious haunch, The mercenary wolf was stanch: The convert fox grew warm and hearty, A pullet gained him to the party; 100 The golden pippin in his fist, A chattering monkey joined the list.

The monkey thought his grin and chatter, Might ask a nut or some such matter.

[Coll.]; octopus, specter, scarecrow, harridan^, satyr^, toad, monkey, baboon, Caliban, Aesop^, monstrum horrendum informe ingens cui lumen ademptum

original, oddity; queer fish, odd fish; quiz, square toes; old monkey, old fogey, fogey monkey, fogy monkey; buffoon &c (jester) 844; pantomimist &c (actor)

original, oddity; queer fish, odd fish; quiz, square toes; old monkey, old fogey, fogey monkey, fogy monkey; buffoon &c (jester) 844; pantomimist &c (actor)

Its home, like the monkey family, seems to be on the trees.

At sundown we halted under a lofty mountain, the highest in the district, called "Lynchie a Cheny," or the Monkey's Mountain.

"I knew something would happen," declared that worthy, as he picked up a monkey wrench, the only weapon at hand, and started off for the woods.

I'll take care of this one," cried Jake, rushing into the mêlée, whirling his monkey wrench in a formidable manner.

A clever blow from Roy laid the cudgel wielder low, and the other man, not liking the look of Jake's monkey wrench, capitulated by taking to his heels.

See, he has a monkey wrench in his hand, too," exclaimed Bess.

How comes it you have that monkey wrench in your hands if you weren't tampering with the machinery?" Jimsy spoke in a voice that fairly bubbled over with indignation.

I happened to be near that machine with a monkey wrench and in some way was careless enough to let it put that plug out of business.

One day a turtle, whose name was Ca Boo-Ug, and a monkey, Ca Matsin, met on the shore of a pond.

The story of "The Monkey and the Turtle" is clearly modified from a Spanish source.

" How Man Turned into a Monkey Before the world was made, the monkey looked like man, and was called manobo, and was actually human.

" How Man Turned into a Monkey Before the world was made, the monkey looked like man, and was called manobo, and was actually human.

But after the world and people were made, the monkey took its present form.

The ladle had turned into a tail, and presently Lumabat's brother became a monkey.

He would in vain have lifted his Lilliputian arm to Heaven, people would have laughed at his monkey-tricks.

He is like "a monkey-preacher" to the other.

In Rome, for example, a parricide, or the murderer of any near relation, was thrown into deep water, tied up in a sack together with a dog, a cock, a viper, and a monkey, which were probably symbols of his wickedness, and must have given him a lively time before death supervened.

The monkey farm.

A monkey mixup.

The white monkey.