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  • If pushed to extremity, however, the 'Pappan' could not be otherwise than formidable, and one unfortunate man, who, with a party, was trying to catch a large one alive, lost two of his fingers, besides being severely bitten on the face, whilst the animal finally beat off his pursuers and escaped. "

    Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • If pushed to extremity, however, the 'Pappan' could not be otherwise than formidable, and one unfortunate man, who, with a party, was trying to catch a large one alive, lost two of his fingers, besides being severely bitten on the face, whilst the animal finally beat off his pursuers and escaped. "

    Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • At sentencing, Pappan faces up to five years in federal prison plus a $250,000 fine and mandatory restitution.

    Tim Giago: Allegations of tribal corruption are aired 2009

  • Pappan, who is a member of the Tonkawa Tribe, served as the Tribe's Secretary-Treasurer and was a member of the Tribe's Business Committee from mid-1999 through mid-2008.

    Tim Giago: Allegations of tribal corruption are aired 2009

  • Sixtyfive-year-old Pappan bit the dog so hard in its throat that it bled profusley.

    Kerala Man bites mad dog to save his duck Emii 2007

  • An angry Pappan sprang on the dog and the duo started a fight in a slushy ditch ..

    Kerala Man bites mad dog to save his duck Emii 2007

  • Pappan_, two species of ourang-outang, determined by Mr. Brooke.

    The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy Henry Keppel

  • I-- It makes me regard your interesting nation with the same shuddering curiosity that I should bestow on a Pappan cannibal chewing the scalp off his mother's skull.

    American Notes Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • Mias Pappan to be, are problems which are at present undecided; and the variability of these great apes is so extensive that the settlement of the question is a matter of great difficulty.

    A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. Various 1891

  • I -- It makes me regard your interesting nation with the same shuddering curiosity that I should bestow on a Pappan cannibal chewing the scalp off his mother's skull.

    American Notes 1889

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