"Great ape" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "I'm more like a great ape than ever; but I hope you'll give me a lunch, Bobbie, ...
— Oscar Wilde, Volume 2 (of 2) - His Life and Confessions • Frank Harris
... the last stretch of the journey. And the moonlight touched the little conical roofs of fully two hundred huts of the ape-people. No sound was audible save the soughing of night wind in the trees, the shrilling of insects. Nevertheless, there stole over Kirby all at once a feeling that the great ape-village was crowded to overflowing. What was more, he felt himself touched by an eery sensation—familiar these days—of ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 • Various
... part"—it was the voice of the great Ape seated within the shrine—"it pleases me well to watch these men, remembering that I also builded no small ...
— The Day's Work, Volume 1 • Rudyard Kipling
... thing to be done in order to escape him? Run off into the forest, and try to find their father and Saloo? They might go the wrong way, and by so doing make things worse. The great ape itself would soon be returning among the trees, and might meet them in the teeth; there would then be no chance ...
— The Castaways • Captain Mayne Reid
... Africa and see the gorilla!" cried Peterkin, while a glow of enthusiasm lighted up his eyes. "You've heard of the gorilla, Ralph, of course—the great ape—the enormous puggy—the huge baboon—the man monkey, that we've been hearing so much of for some years back, and that the niggers on the African coast used to dilate about till they caused the very hair of my head to ...
— The Gorilla Hunters • R.M. Ballantyne
... the finest has to come," answered Pique-Vinaigre. "As soon as Gringalet felt the cold and hairy paws of the great ape, which seized him by the throat and by the head, he thought himself devoured, became, as it were, off his nut, and began to cry with groans which would ...
— Mysteries of Paris, V3 • Eugene Sue |
