Do we say gorilla or guerilla

gorilla 93 occurrences

His arms hung like a gorilla's, palms turned slightly outwards.

The long gorilla arms contracted, the hairy head sunk forward in the tenseness of a serpent ready to strike.

The captain with beautiful simplicity crushed his antagonist in his gorilla-like squeeze, carried him to the side of the vessel, and dropped him limp and beaten to the pier.

In the Gorilla family, (the nearest approach to the human,) divorce is not practiced, but it is in Indiana, which is usually considered to be a State of Civilization.

His face became like that of a gorilla.

But neither Dorn nor her father ever guessed that, once in her room, she collapsed from sheer feminine horror at the prospect of seeing Dorn change from a man to a gorilla, and to repeat the savage orgy of remurdering his Huns.

There was a suggestion of the gorilla in West's long arms matted with hair, in the muscles of back and shoulders so gnarled and knotted that they gave him almost a deformed appearance.

In order to facilitate the children's studies, he presented them with an engraved geography which represented various scenes of the world: cannibals with feather head-dresses, a gorilla kidnapping a young girl, Arabs in the desert, a whale being harpooned, etc. Paul explained the pictures to Félicité.

We know, or think we know, about how far below us stand the gorilla and the seal.

The gorilla was famous.

When enough people had gathered, the gorilla would sneak one hand behind and below him and without warning blast the tourists with a shit ball that hit the bars and scattered for maximum effect.

To the Sydney Bulletin, and to the caricaturists of Europe, the fact that any territory on the map of the world is coloured red still recalls nothing but the little greedy eyes, huge mouth, and gorilla hands of 'John Bull.'

Paul du Chaillu, gorilla hunter.

Paul du Chaillu, gorilla hunter.

SEE Turneaure, F. E. WODEHOUSE, P. G. A cagey gorilla.

The gorilla of Hospital Cay & other sea ballads.

The Anatomy of the gorilla.

SEE Turneaure, F. E. WODEHOUSE, P. G. A cagey gorilla.

That's strange, he wasn't part of the show at all; gorilla in box.

The gorilla's captive.

The gorilla and the winds.

Burton, R.F.: Two Trips to Gorilla Land. Abeokuta.

Now I don't propose to bore you with the details of the tests, but one of the things they showed was that the blood of a certain branch of the human race gives a reaction much like the blood of a certain group of monkeys, the chimpanzees, while the blood of another branch gives a reaction like that of the gorilla.

Now the gorilla was, of course, out of the questionthis was no Rue Morgue murder.

And I think that my boy and the Prussian officer, as they sat on their beasts and bowed, and smiled, and offered to fight each other, or to shake hands, each desiring to oblige the other, like a couple of knights of the old ages, were a trifle farther removed from our common gorilla parentage than some of us.

guerilla 71 occurrences

Escaping to South America, he won distinction as a guerilla leader and a privateer in the service of the Rio Grande rebels against Brazil.

Very, very smart and soldier-like these Hausa and Fulani troops; Mohammedan, largely, in religion, and bearded where the East Coast native is smooth-faced, they will stay to finish this guerilla fighting, for which their experience in the Cameroon has so well fitted them.

Epirus was now fallen, and nothing remained but a guerilla warfare.

But in the absence of a central power the various generals wished to fight on their own account, like guerilla chiefs.

The grand army destined for the invasion of the Morea gradually melted away in attacking fortresses, and under the desultory actions of guerilla bands amidst rocks and thickets.

After this the Greeks never ventured to fight in the open field, but only in guerilla bands, in mountain passes, and behind fortifications.

" The Greek revolution has another aspect than battles on the Morea, massacres on the islands of the Archipelago, naval enterprises under heroic seamen, guerilla conflicts amid the defiles of mountains, brave defences of fortresses, dissensions and jealousies between chieftains, treacheries and cruelties equalling those of the Turks,another aspect than the recovery of national independence even.

This sympathy with France during great eclipses, in those that during ordinary seasons were always teasing her with brawls and guerilla inroads, strengthened the natural piety to France of those that were confessedly the children of her own house.

The natives of the neighboring village of Palapat retreated to it after having killed their priest, a too covetous Jesuit father, and for years carried on a guerilla warfare with the Spaniards until they were finally overpowered by treachery.

In 140 treachery had rid her of Viriathus, the stubborn guerilla who defied her generals and defeated her armies in Spain.

[Sidenote: Jugurtha keeps up a guerilla warfare.]

His army dispersed, as such armies do upon defeat, and he was reduced to carrying on a guerilla warfare, spoiling the springs where Metellus was marching, and cutting off stragglers.

How, in the name of English exclusiveness, did such a rampantly heterodox spiritual guerilla invade the respectabilities and conservatisms of Herefordshire?"

Then I bared my ankle also, and showed the place in my eye where the guerilla had stabbed me.

I should not have feared to ride by the road through the wood, for I have learned in Spain that the safest time to pass through a guerilla country is after an outrage, and that the moment of danger is when all is peaceful.

I was better off when I was on the Merrimac fighting the Monitor, or with Mosby, the guerilla, than I am in this accursed island.

The building is famous as the prison for those guerilla fighters of the Civil War called "Clubmen," who consisted mostly of better class farmers and yeomanry.

At first they depended upon the guerilla type of warfare, to which the hills of Judea were especially adapted.

At first Judas wisely confined himself to guerilla warfare.

Erskine Caldwell (A); 4Dec69; R473987. All night long; a novel of guerilla warfare in Russia.

SEE DUCKWORTH, GEORGE E. SENSING, THURMAN J. Champ Ferguson, Confederate guerilla.

The insurrection was then drawing to a close, but there were left in the field many guerilla bands armed and uniformed.

DIEZ, JUAN MARTIN, a Spanish brigadier-general of cavalry, born at Valladolid, the son of a peasant; had, as head of guerilla bands, done good service to his country during the Peninsular war and been promoted; offending the ruling powers, was charged with conspiracy, tried, and executed (1775-1825).

With Weyler for an opponent, Gomez, as a guerilla, could have dragged on a series of skirmishes indefinitely.

But Te Waharoa was something more than an able guerilla chief.

Do we say   gorilla   or  guerilla