Apes remain apes, though you clothe them in velvet.
When apes climb high, they show their naked rumps.
It is to ask, why apes have tails, and why nature has refused us an ornament which, at least among us, is an extreme rarity.
An animal, which from the nape of its neck downwards might resemble a man, or one of those apes which we call ourang-outang or the man of the woods, would no more be a man than an ape or a bear whose head and tail were cut off.
The attack of the gorilla is that of the apes and the monkeys generally.
Chaillu does grave injustice to this good old Briton, who was not a literary man, by declaring his stories to be mere travellers' tales, "untrue of any of the great apes of Africa.
The apeswere almost upon the maidens, but a couple of mighty bounds were all my earthly muscles required to carry me to the centre of the sand-strewn floor.
The other apes turned now upon me, and as I stood facing them a sullen roar from the audience answered the wild cheers from the cages.
I think that the cause of this feeling which these apes engender within me is due to their remarkable resemblance in form to our Earth men, which gives them a human appearance that is most uncanny when coupled with their enormous size.
The great white apes get the flesh when the plant men have drained the arteries.
In my gracious generosity I shall at length grant your prayer, and from the high balcony of the Golden Cliffs I shall watch the great white apes tear you asunder.
They were that most dreaded of Martian creatures--great whiteapes of Barsoom.
I turned again in time to see the gate of a nearby cage thrown open and three monstrous whiteapes spring into the arena.
Time and again the ferocious apes sprang in to close with us, and time and again we beat them back with our swords.
At length the apesspied the huddled knot of terror-stricken maidens and with demoniacal shrieks of bestial frenzy, charged upon them.
Then a shaggy brown bear and some little apeswere brought in.
The bear stood on his head, and the apes fought with tiny swords and went through a regular soldiers' drill like the King's own bodyguard.
Apes are known to use stones in cracking the shells of nuts.
Not knowing that the great apes always slept at night, Grôm decided to continue the journey in order to lessen the risk of a surprise.
There was no need to urge his party to haste; but it seemed to them all as if they were standing still, so swiftly did the clamor of the apes come upon them.
As they dropped nimbly from branch to branch, the foremost of the apes arrived in sight, set up a screech of triumph, and came swooping down after them in vast, swinging leaps.
As he led the way once more through the branches along the edge of the bayou, the apeskept pace with them on the other side.
Surprised at seeing their leader fall with so little apparent reason, the other apes halted for a moment in their onset, chattering noisily.
At Platoni cum in cunis parvulo dormienti apes in labellis consedissent, responsum est, singulari illum suavitate orationis fore.
The fairest women compared with Sarah are as apes compared with a human being.
Thus Homo primigenius must also be regarded as occupying a position in the gap existing between the highest apes and the lowest human races, Pithecanthropus, standing in the lower part of it, and Homo primigenius in the higher, near man.
The common ancestral form, from which man and apes are thus supposed to have arisen independently, may explain the numerous resemblances which actually exist between them.
I believe I have shown in the above sketch that a theory which derives man directly from lower forms without regarding apes as transition-types leads ad absurdum.
We have in this not only a proof of the literal blood-relationship between man and apes, but the degree of relationship with the different main groups of apes can be determined beyond possibility of mistake.
If we regard man as directly derived from primitive forms very far back, we have no way of explaining the many points of agreement between him and the monkeys in general, and the anthropoid apes in particular.
The bony external ear-passage is in general as highly developed in the lower Eastern monkeys and the anthropoid apes as in man.
So much for this most modern method of classification, which has probably found adherents because it would deliver us from the relationship to apes which many people so much dislike.
The fact of the higher apes not using their vocal organs for speech no doubt depends on their intelligence not having been sufficiently advanced.
He mentions two or three anthropoid apesas occurring in the Miocene of Europe ("Descent of Man", page 240.
That is to say, all the characters upon which the great structural resemblance between apes and man depends must have been present in their common ancestor.
Vanity and the desire of "showing off" play no small part in the wrongdoings of apes and apish men and women.
But in the man-like apes and in man this kind of cortex is confined to one region of the occipital lobe, namely, that of the calcarine fissure and the cuneus behind that.
These latter in the monkey and the man-like apes and man lie in front of the central fissure: the sensory lie probably behind it.
But in the higher apes and in man the olfactory portion of the pallium is but a small fraction of the pallium as a whole.
Do you not know that even Numa slinks from the path of the great apes when there are many of them and they are mad?
Howls of rage and dismay broke from the bull apes behind the fallen king, as with murder in their savage little hearts they rushed forward upon Korak and Akut; but the old ape was too wise to court any such unequal encounter.
To Geeka she spoke in Arabic, knowing that Geeka, being but a doll, could not understand the language of Korak and Akut, and that the language of Korak and Akut being that of male apes contained nothing of interest to an Arab doll.
Yes, I lived, almost naked, among the great apes and the lesser apes.
For days he lay helpless with fever, while Akut and the apes hunted close by that they might protect him from such birds and beasts as might reach his lofty retreat.
The apes jabbered and chattered and growled among themselves for a time.
Almost at once Malbihn recognized the strange figure as that of the creature who consorted with apes and baboons--the white warrior of the jungle who had freed the king baboon and led the whole angry horde of hairy devils upon him and Jenssen.
The language of the great apes is a combination of monosyllabic gutturals, amplified by gestures and signs.
For a time the apes followed them, and several of the blacks were badly mauled and one killed before they succeeded in escaping.
To them this white warrior, who consorted with the great apes and the fierce baboons, who growled and snarled and snapped like a beast, was not human.
When the apes had filled their bellies and many of them had sought the bases of the trees to curl up in sleep Akut plucked Korak by the arm.
It is especially long with the higher monkeys, and among the man-like apes it becomes so long as to be strikingly suggestive.
Monkeys, with their greater power of handling things, have also more inquisitiveness and more capacity for sustained attention than any other mammals; and the higher apes are fertile in varied resources.
Leaue Apes to Doggs to baite, their skins to Crowes, And let old Lanam[429] lashe him with his rimes.
The next point is, Apes use to tosse and teare What once their fidling fingers fasten on; And clime aloft, and cast downe euery where, And neuer staie till all that stands be gon!
Now, Martin, you that say you will spawne out Your brawling brattes, in euery towne to dwell, We will provide in each place for your route, A bell and whippe that Apes do loue so well.
Thus tearing all, as all apes use to doo, He teares withall the Church of Christ in two.
For Apes must climbe, and neuer stay their wit, Untill on top of highest hilles they sit.
There are apes and hares peeping through wonderfully chiselled leaves, and doves and demons, and dragons writhing in storms.
Upon the pedestal below the Three Apes are carven; and the face of an ape appears also upon the front of the god's tiara.
Marvellous devils were certain apes of quicksilver, always running, tumbling, leaping, coming, and going.
The development that has taken place since that time is truly very wonderful and has resulted in a widening gap between man and apes that today seems very great.
Sidenote: Comparison of blood from man and apes] Late studies upon the growth of the embryo of anthropoid apes have shown that they were at certain periods almost indistinguishable from human embryos.
For one thing they grew larger and stronger all the time, and came to look more and more like the monkeys and apes we find in the jungle country even to-day.
After a while, others of the apes got clubs too, and used them to fight with, but except the stones they sometimes threw, Adh's stick was the very first weapon used by Man.
But still they were not apes, but from them, both the apes and Man, are descended.
As the years went by, and new generations of apes were born, their tails were smaller and smaller, and finally, when a very long time indeed had passed, they were born without any tails at all.
He went all through the valley, hoping to find some of the sweet golden fruit that used to be so plentiful, but he could not find any, for the other apes had picked it all.
O that I might intreate your rare wits to be imployed in more profitable courses: and let those apes imitate your past excellence and never more acquaint them with your rare inventions.
The Universe has become a Humbug to these Apes who thought it one.
That fable of the Dead-Sea Apes ceases to be a fable.
This humour will have to abate; it is the first element of all fertility in human things, that such 'liberty' of apes and nomads do by freewill or constraint abridge itself, give place to a better.
Moslem parable of Moses and the Dwellers by the Dead Sea: The Universe become a Humbug to the Apes that thought it one.
His reply was the flash of a long gun, and with the sound of the shot Tarzan of the Apes plunged forward upon his face.
For the strong, white teeth of the ape-man had found the throat of one of his assailants, and Tarzan fought as he had learned to fight with the great bull apes of the tribe of Kerchak.
Tarzan of theApes had come into his own again, and that all the world might know it he threw back his young head, and gave voice to the fierce, wild challenge of his tribe.
As they came closer to the amphitheater Tarzan of the Apes melted into the branches upon the other side of the arena.
Behind them stood Tarzan of the Apes where they had left him, a grim smile upon his lips--waiting for the enemy he fully expected was about to pounce upon him.
Then Tarzan arose, and the black man and the white looked into each other's eyes across the body of their kill--and the black made the sign of peace and friendship, and Tarzan of the Apesanswered in kind.
I have seen the apes of my tribe do the same thing.
It is a silly world, an idiotic world, and Tarzan of the Apes was a fool to renounce the freedom and the happiness of his jungle to come into it.
The lesson served its purpose--the young apes kept out of his way, as young apes should when their betters were about, and the old bulls made no attempt to encroach upon his prerogatives.
And when Tarzan of the Apes elected to adopt stealth, no creature in all the jungle could move so silently or so completely efface himself from the sight of an enemy.
The majority of the apes went on about the little activities that the advent of the ape-man had interrupted, paying no further attention to him than as though he had not been gone from the tribe at all.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "apes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
