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  • She writes the book in the first person from the cat, Tiffany's point of view, a humanesque diva-feline brought up on caviar, Perrier, mansions, and an acute appreciation for diamonds, a girl's best friend.

    Edward Lozzi: The Cats of Beverly Hills Edward Lozzi 2010

  • The uneasy question still stirred within me; and now, looking towards the northwest, where the sky yet glowed faintly with twilight, a long line of pines, gaunt and humanesque, as no tree but our northern white-pine is, was relieved in massy blackness against the golden gray, like a long procession of giants.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 Various

  • They're these little blobby, humanesque monstrosities, attempting to be cute.

    Japanator Japanator Staff 2010

  • They're these little blobby, humanesque monstrosities, attempting to be cute.

    Japanator Japanator Staff 2010

  • The traditional humanesque, cape and tuxedo clad vampire figure has been replaced by a fresh, new interpretation of the theme.

    News 2009

  • Atrracted by the scent of Jehovah's Witness-adorned, humanesque-masked, sentient squirrels from beyond the stars, and coupled with his own nosiness he had padded slowly down the hallway and crouched behind me waiting to pounce upon the very meal he had dreamt of only the night before.

    neOnbubble: Bubbly. And Neonny. 2009

  • We spent a while watching them swing about in the treetops and watch the mothers and babies act almost freakily humanesque towards each other.

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2009

  • However, the League’s neighbors are the strange and potentially hostile Extropian Planets, with only the famous “humanesque” Commander Lasper “Carnage” Farr's Consilience acting as a buffer between the two.

    "Mirror Space - Sentients of Orion 3" by Marianne de Pierres (Reviewed by Liviu Suciu) Liviu 2009

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