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- noun Plural form of
ourang-outang .
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Examples
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I am happy to announce the departure of five live ourang-outangs by the ship Martin Luther, Captain Swan; and I trust they will reach you alive.
The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy Henry Keppel
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We durst not travel by night, but we contrived two covered hurdles, in which we carried Agnes and the children, and for three days a considerable body of the tallest and strongest of the ourang-outangs attended our steps.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 398, November 14, 1829 Various
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The forest was full of leopards, wild cats, cavallis or wild boars, and ourang-outangs.
Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot
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Rajah Ali came next, bringing some ourang-outangs 'heads; then Datu Naraja; and lastly,
The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy Henry Keppel
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My William was at this time about eleven months old, but was still at the breast, as I could never prevail on his lovely mother to wean him, and at the very time of which I am speaking, our little settlement was invaded one night by a tribe of those large baboons called ourang-outangs, pongos, or wild men of the woods, who did great mischief to our fruits, yams, and carrots.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 398, November 14, 1829 Various
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Borneo must be exceedingly rich in osteologic remains, even to bridge the chasm between its own ourang-outangs and the Dyaks, or aboriginal inhabitants, of that island.
Life: Its True Genesis R. W. Wright
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It was the opinion of the natives that the child had been killed by ourang-outangs, nor can I doubt their correctness, for when I visited the scene of the murder, the earth for a large space around, was covered with the footprints of the beast and scattered with the skins of its favorite esculent.
Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot
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Indeed, had the troupe been accompanied by a bevy of ourang-outangs, I confess I might, at times, have had difficulty in deciding the grade of animal life to which the object in front of me belonged.
Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot
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I was astonished, and asked the Kaffre what he meant, when he told me that he himself saw my wife carried across the river by a band of pongos, (ourang-outangs), but he had always kept it a secret, for fear of giving me distress, as they were too far gone for pursuit when be beheld them.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 398, November 14, 1829 Various
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Tall trees reached to the ceiling, with gaudily striped boa constrictors wound around their trunks; hissing snakes peered out of jungles; birds of gay plumage, paroquets, parrots, peacocks everywhere, some way up, almost out of sight in the greenery; monkeys swung from limb to limb; ourang-outangs, and lots of almost naked, dark-skinned natives wandered about.
Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood, 1912
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