This monkey, which was of a large size, evidently belonged to the first order of the quadrumana. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysterious Island] Reference
He filled it himself, lighted it with a glowing coal, and appeared to be the happiest of quadrumana. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysterious Island] Reference
There was no one in the rooms nor in the storehouse, which had been respected by the band of quadrumana. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysterious Island] Reference
As to the health of the members of the colony, bipeds or bimana, quadrumana or quadrupeds, it left nothing to be desired. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysterious Island] Reference
The rest, throwing themselves out, were dashed to pieces in their fall, and in a few minutes, so far as they knew, there was not a living quadrumana in Granite. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysterious Island] Reference
Cyrus Harding now imparted to his companions a scheme for completely isolating Prospect Heights so as to shelter it from the attacks both of quadrupeds and quadrumana. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysterious Island] Reference
The Coitas, or spider-monkeys, are the highest of American quadrumana. From Wordnik.com. [The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America] Reference
In some quadrumana the zygomatic bone consists of two parts, an orbital and a malar. From Wordnik.com. [II. Osteology. 5b. 4. The Zygomatic Bone] Reference
How can it then be thought that my mind or the mind of Darwin sprang from the minds of the higher quadrumana. From Wordnik.com. [The Silesian Horseherd - Questions of the Hour] Reference
He left some of his superfluous forty-four teeth with his ancestral quadrumana of Eocene times, and kept thirty-two. From Wordnik.com. [Time and Change] Reference
Papuan has extremely small legs: thus reminding us of the quadrumana, in which there is no great contrast in size between the hind and fore limbs. From Wordnik.com. [Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library] Reference
The facts of our bodily structure are inexplicable on any other view than our community of descent with the quadrumana, unless structure is but a snare to delude our reason. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Charles Darwin] Reference
These early drifts we conjecture and know must have occurred, just as we know that the first upright-walking brutes were descended from some kin of the quadrumana through having developed. From Wordnik.com. [The Human Drift] Reference
In a tree where there were between fifteen and twenty of those quadrumana, each about the size of an ordinary cat, was seen a young leopard, trying to capture a black monkey for his breakfast. From Wordnik.com. [The Giraffe Hunters] Reference
Its soft fur, long tail, large eyes, and other features and habits connected it with these quadrumana, while its rodent dentition seemed to refer it to the group containing our squirrels, hares, and mice. From Wordnik.com. [Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men.] Reference
58 quadrumana (apes) quadrumana/8th month, that of the quadrumana. From Wordnik.com. [An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges] Reference
That the third lobe is neither peculiar to, nor characteristic of, man, seeing that it exists in all the higher quadrumana.”. From Wordnik.com. [Essays] Reference
That the ‘hippocampus minor’ is neither pecular to, nor characteristic of, man, as it is found in certain of the higher quadrumana.”. From Wordnik.com. [Essays] Reference
The gorilla has massive spines on the cervical vertebrae above the scapula "; and, like the other quadrumana (4-handed animals) has an opposable thumb on the hind foot. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments] Reference
That the third lobe is neither peculiar to, nor characteristic of, man, seeing that it exists in all the higher quadrumana. ". From Wordnik.com. [Lectures and Essays] Reference
That the 'hippocampus minor' is neither pecular to, nor characteristic of, man, as it is found in certain of the higher quadrumana. ". From Wordnik.com. [On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals] Reference
That the 'hippocampus minor' is neither peculiar to, nor characteristic of, man, as it is found in certain of the higher quadrumana. ". From Wordnik.com. [Lectures and Essays] Reference
I hope that he will assist me in obtaining specimens of natural history, and enable me to gain a further knowledge of the habits of the quadrupeds and quadrumana, and of the feathered tribes, of this region. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Young Llanero A Story of War and Wild Life in Venezuela] Reference
Quadrupeds and quadrumana appear. From Wordnik.com. [The Rifle Rangers] Reference
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