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  • When he left home he was a smooth-faced, good-looking boy, and he sends home the likeness of an ourangoutang with the upper part of his face shaved!

    THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

  • Simia, -- baboons and apes, chimpanzees, with their human visage, mockeries of man, from the dwarf monkeys perched on boughs lopped from the mayor's shrubberies, to the formidable ourangoutang, leaning on his huge club.

    A Strange Story — Volume 03 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Genus Simia, -- baboons and apes, chimpanzees, with their human visage, mockeries of man, from the dwarf monkeys perched on boughs lopped from the mayor's shrubberies, to the formidable ourangoutang, leaning on his huge club.

    A Strange Story — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • —visions of the horribly slaughtered land-lady—of the suspected assailant, so simian-like in appearance as to resemble a hideous Borneo ourangoutang—and of the grim, and ghastly, and ominous fowl that eyed me with such strange, if inscrutable, meaning?

    Nevermore Harold Schechter 1999

  • Bless my eyesaight! you are like a cousin-german of an ourangoutang.”

    The Adventures of Roderick Random 2004

  • Bless my eyesaight! you are like a cousin-german of an ourangoutang. "

    The Adventures of Roderick Random Tobias George Smollett 1746

  • "When he left home he was a smooth-faced, good-looking boy, and he sends home the likeness of an ourangoutang

    Epinions Recent Content for Home 2009

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