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The same idea may be formed of the worship which all Egypt rendered to the cow, and that several towns paid to a dog, an ape,
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It isn't fair to our good name, to either fox or ape,
THE NEW EXHIBITS 2001
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Cease being ignorant of what you are most assur'd, Your glassy essence, and you will cease to be an angry ape,
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So that their lives, prisoned in the shape of ape,
Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 Frank F. Ellinwood
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The coast being quite strange to us, I knew not what wild beasts might frequent it; but, though I did not fear that any would approach us by swimming, yet I was glad to have with us our lively little ape,
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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If 2,000,000 years ago, man had the same skull capacity as the ape,
The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments
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Le Brusquet, lute in hand, and by his side there sat a small brown ape,
Orrain A Romance S. Levett-Yeats
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It isn't fair to our good name, to either fox or ape,
The New Exhibits 1917
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Or to touch the icy shape of a hunched and hairy ape,
Georgian Poetry 1916-17 Edited by Sir Edward Howard Marsh Various 1912
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It meant nothing to Tarzan, of course, for he could not tell one language from another, so when he pointed to the word man which he had printed upon a piece of bark he learned from D'Arnot that it was pronounced HOMME, and in the same way he was taught to pronounce ape,
Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912
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