But that is a monkeyish way of deciding disputes, not a feline.
It makes us smile to see birds, like the magpie, with a mania for this collecting--but only monkeyish beings could reverence museums as we do, and pile such heterogeneous trifles and quantities in them.
And I went on to argue that it wasn't as though we were descended from eagles for instance, instead of (broadly speaking) from ape-like or monkeyish beings.
He grinned at her--a wicked, monkeyish grin, and threw open the door, disclosing a steep and winding stone stair.
His dark face wore its funny, monkeyish look of regret, half-wistful and half-feigned.
With monkeyish antics, she even deems it her duty to threaten the lanterns and shake her fist at these inextricably tangled strings which have the presumption to delay us.
But how is it that their charm vanishes so rapidly and is so quickly replaced by the elderly grimace, the smiling ugliness, the monkeyish face?
His monkeyishface was lighted up with a look of more intelligence than usual, which made his ugly features more forbidding and repulsive.
I saw him resplendent again as he had been on that never forgotten Twenty-first, and smiling in monkeyish triumph over all of us who had mocked him for a fool.
Arsenio was quite aware of her attitude towards him, but it pleased his monkeyish humor to pretend to believe that she favored a suit which he had himself no intention of pressing.
He did look peaceful; and, as he saw me, the ghost of his monkeyish smile formed itself on his lips.
The suddenness and warmth of her caress had been, I knew, a mere monkeyish trick, designed to vex the religious scruples of Mere Marguerite.
Ferrari laughed again, but this time uneasily, and ceasing his monkeyish pranks, walked to the window.
But that is a monkeyishway of deciding disputes, not feline.
He was a young man, with a swarthy face of undeniable ugliness that yet possessed a monkeyish fascination that was all its own.
He let her go, as always, at her desire, but with a faint, monkeyish grimace of disapproval.
Saltash's glance flashed round to her, the monkeyish grin still about his mouth, and from her to Bunny who stood behind.
She called to him to join them at the tea-table, and he jerked himself to his feet and came across to her with the monkeyish grin on his face that she had learned long since to regard as the shield wherewith he masked his soul.
He made his monkeyish grimace, and suddenly dropped his eyes to the blue-veined wrist in his grasp.
And still his features wore that monkeyish look of unrest, of discontent and quizzical irony oddly mingled.
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