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... a child, but a little animal—a wild being of an unknown species in a child's skin—the missing link, perhaps; the link missing between the natural, kindly instinct of the wild thing, the brute, the monkey, the anthropoid ape, which protects its young even at the expense of its life, and civilized man of to-day, the speaking creature, the so-called Christian creature, who sells his young to the director-Devils of mills and machinery and prolongs his own life by the death ...

— The Bishop of Cottontown - A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills • John Trotwood Moore

... it blighting," she returned, "to be told not only that you are the descendant of an anthropoid ape—we had got used to that—but of an ...

— Imaginary Interviews • W. D. Howells

... Anthropoid apes, of which there was recently such a representative series in the Zoo, have dwindled sadly in numbers this year. The lamented decease of 'Sally' was referred to a few weeks ago; we have now to record the death of 'George,' the ...

— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101. October 10, 1891 • Various

... comparatively near together and fully enclosed in a bony case. The cerebrum with well-developed furrows covers the other portions of the brain. There is but one pair of milk-glands, and these on the breast. The differences between hand and foot become most strongly marked by the "anthropoid" apes. These have become accustomed to an upright gait in their climbing; hence the feet are used for supporting the body and the hands for grasping. Both thumb and great toe are opposable; but the foot is a true foot, ...

— The Whence and the Whither of Man • John Mason Tyler

... the faculties generally to be manifestations of movements in the central nervous system; and every idea, even of the Deity, to be a certain little pulsation of a certain little mass of animal pap,the brain. Thus he would not object to relationship with a tailless catarrhine anthropoid ape, descended from a monad or ...

— The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi • Richard F. Burton

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