They peered at her from under shaggy, apish brows. From Wordnik.com. [Hell Wings Over Manhattan]
Note the wide forehead, the apish shelf of a brow. From Wordnik.com. [I Did Not Make This Up] Reference
To the west the apish Atlanteans are beginning the long climb upward. From Wordnik.com. [Conan]
Rocky knew he could count on the apish driver to assemble a good mob. From Wordnik.com. [Angel With No Hands]
Petit Singe faced the huge, apish driver across the narrow girder of iron. From Wordnik.com. [Angel With No Hands]
He left Delp gaping and swung himself with apish speed down into the canoe. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Book of Stormgate]
Behind him sat the apish behemoth Jingles with his head swathed in white gauze. From Wordnik.com. [Angel With No Hands]
“I will do no such apish tricks upon commandment, as an ape is made to come aloft.”. From Wordnik.com. [Quentin Durward] Reference
As he strode off, the apish man added, "though why anyone would want you is a puzzle to me.". From Wordnik.com. [Ship Of Magic]
Neither the squalid Picts nor the apish Atlanteans have any contact with other tribes or peoples. From Wordnik.com. [Conan]
It is a sad sad day when our only saviour against the primitive apish hordes leaves us defenceless. From Wordnik.com. [EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Chuck Heston is out. Dead at age 84.] Reference
You have accorded me the honor of asking me to submit to the Academy a report on my previous apish life. From Wordnik.com. [The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories] Reference
Arkady saw Irina's delight in one apish face comically puckered, and in another one bearing a fierce scowl. From Wordnik.com. [Gorky Park]
The face was apish in general appearance, though the nose-bridge was more pronounced, the jaw less bestial. From Wordnik.com. [Conan the Wanderer]
The next instant there was a worse convulsion, and just under his necktie suddenly appeared a tiny apish head. From Wordnik.com. [All Aboard A Story for Girls] Reference
At fifteen or sixteen, she affected, both in dress and manners, to ape such of the quality as were most apish. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
When my Cat and I entertaine each other with mutuall apish tricks (as playing with a garter,) who knows but that. From Wordnik.com. [The Compleat Angler] Reference
How superior to the apish politeness of the towns! where the people, affecting to be well bred, fatigue with their endless ceremony. From Wordnik.com. [Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark] Reference
Rome hissed, that brought parasites on the stage with apish actions, or fools with uncivil habits, or courtesans with immodest words. From Wordnik.com. [The Growth of English Drama] Reference
There are dog-faced idols, and apish gods, and unearthly things, besides the sacrificial stone, and a rude attempt to represent a goddess. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited] Reference
He had become unconsciously apish with excitement. From Wordnik.com. [In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim] Reference
These "monkey tricks" -- this apish fury and impatience!. From Wordnik.com. [All Roads Lead to Calvary] Reference
Enough of this wretched life and murmuring and apish tricks. From Wordnik.com. [Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius] Reference
The fool drew nearer to her, eagerly, apish curiosity goading him. From Wordnik.com. [The Proud Prince] Reference
This could not be relaxed, for he was full of the most apish tricks. From Wordnik.com. [The Stark Munro Letters] Reference
Indras and Vishṇus is reproduced in a zoological and entirely apish form. From Wordnik.com. [Ramayana. English] Reference
First of all, he is exceedingly given to little apish tricks and buffooneries. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Tales] Reference
The monkey temple is full of monkeys, and they have less apish expressions than the priests. From Wordnik.com. [From Edinburgh to India & Burmah] Reference
To trust no one is, perhaps, worse than insanity - it may be atavistic, apish, less than fully human. From Wordnik.com. [News Review - Top Stories] Reference
Thus he remained stale in his garments, sweaty in his accoutrements, with dirty hands and an apish face. From Wordnik.com. [Droll Stories — Volume 3] Reference
All Paris was one vast Temple of Hero-worship; though their Divinity, moreover, was of feature too apish. From Wordnik.com. [Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History] Reference
"To trust no one is, perhaps, worse than insanity - it may be atavistic, apish, less than fully human," Heilman writes. From Wordnik.com. [Corpus Christi Caller Times, Caller.com Stories] Reference
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