He plundered the store-room, though it was hard to tell which stole the most, he or the wild monkeys that were about the house.
Knots of naked men were seen perched like monkeys on the granite blocks, anxiously watching their arrival.
Two monkeys on foot, and one on horseback, follow, the latter riding with his face turned to the horse's tail, and carrying in his hand a spit with provisions on it.
The monkeys are dancing to the tune of a great drum.
A kettle is boiling over the fire, around which a group of monkeys are seen sitting and warming themselves.
A jougleur (histrio) was in the habit of constantly taking two monkeys to the military exercises which are commonly called tournaments, that the labour of teaching might be diminished by frequent inspection.
It is a curious circumstance that the monkeys in this picture are the same dog-headed animals, or cynocephali, which are found on the Egyptian monuments.
It will be observed that the cat holds in her hand the same sort of rod, with a hook at the end, with which the monkeys are furnished in the preceding picture.
Alexander Neckam, except that the monkeys are here riding upon other monkeys, and not upon dogs.
We sighted only small monkeyswith white beards and ruddy coats.
Here and there we came upon small hillocks covered with trees, in which numerous monkeys sported about.
Then he plucked out some hairs and changed them into a thousand monkeys like himself.
When the King and all the officials and their wives had succumbed to this charm, the monkeys were to shave their heads.
Why, Mrs Dragon, themonkeys live in the mountain forests!
When he reached the base of the summit, all of a sudden three giddy peaks confronted him, so dangerous that even the monkeys and other animals dared not attempt to scale them.
A group of coolies huddled in the open space before her like an assembly of monkeys holding an important discussion.
The rabbits rode on the backs of the possums, and the monkeys rode on the backs of the elephants.
I daresay you could tell me the story of the monkeys who washed their hands and faces in pitch, and so were caught.
He would pour out his tea, put sugar and milk in it, and then hold his cup and saucer, and drink the tea, all very cleverly; for no animals are so good at imitating others as monkeys are.
The Bororos stated that they learnt from monkeys how to make a fire.
Two or three days later Antonio had become better; he had shot some monkeys and birds, and had been able to keep alive.
I have always noticed in equatorial countries that if you never touch fruit that monkeys do not eat you will seldom get poisoned.
We luckily killed a big mutum and two monkeys before leaving that camp, but my men were so ill that they left them on the ground, saying they had not the strength to carry them so that we might eat them for dinner.
Eventually the monkeys dropped down the empty shells of the fruit they had eaten.
They claimed that men and women did not come from monkeys, but that once upon a time monkeys were human and could speak.
Monkeys played gaily among the trees, evidently taking the greatest interest in the canoe.
Benedicto, who had by that time become very religious, joined his hands and offered prayers to the Virgin that the monkeys might drop some fruit down, but they went on eating while we gazed at them from below.
I could not touch them, as the monkeyslooked too human for words.
If we could find no fruit, why did not we eatmonkeys or birds or other animals?
Well knowing what was in store for us, I proceeded to carry the huge bird (much larger than a big turkey) and one of the monkeys (as big as a child three years old) upon my shoulders.
When we were on the Amazon we did not know that the poor monkeys were killed in this way.
Go below, and turn in; I'll not have chattering monkeys like you disturbing the discipline of the ship.
Here they caught fish, fought ants, captured opossums, and beat the thickets for monkeys and snakes.
And so the boys leisurely proceeded up the Amazon, stopping to fish, to hunt turtle eggs, to watch the monkeys climbing the great trees, to hunt the black tiger in the thickets and the alligators in the rivers.
As the two explorers in the forest passed farther from the creek the protests of the monkeys died out, and all was reasonably still again.
I doubt if we’ll get a look at them,” Clay corrected, “for the Brazilian monkeys are shy little chaps.
There’s a brigade of Brazilian monkeys in there, and the boys have stirred them up with their lights and noise.
The grisettes of the quartier latin have not learned how to read or write; they have only learned how to dance the cancan with the dirty little pig-dog monkeys they call men.
We will teach the little pig-dog monkeys to dance something else some day, we Germans.
As soon as Chia Yün entered the court, he stamped his foot and shouted, "The monkeys are up to mischief!
Monkeys are included under that law, please remember," retorted the fat boy, as he turned on his new tormentor.
The Wizard treated them with great kindness and gentleness and gave them the food that monkeys love best, so they promised to do their best on the great occasion of Ozma's birthday.
I've been wondering what I could give Ozma, and as I've got to train the monkeys as well as make them small, I think you ought to make me your partner.
The long tails of the monkeys were constantly sticking through the bars of their cage, and when they did, the Glass Cat would slyly seize the tails in her paws and pull them.
The monkeys would be very lonesome and unhappy in the Emerald City and your people would tease them and throw stones at them, which would cause them to fight and bite.
As soon as she could speak the Glass Cat asked indignantly: "Aren't you going to punish those monkeys for playing such a trick on me?
Illustration] Then the Tiger lay down again to sleep, but the monkeys soon discovered that the bending of the bars would allow them to squeeze through.
The Wizard rode on the back of the Hungry Tiger and carried the cage of monkeys very carefully, so as not to joggle them.
That made the monkeys scream, and their screams pleased the Glass Cat immensely.
Kiki kept running to the edge of the forest and back to the hollow tree again until he had whispered the Magic Word six times and six monkeys had been changed to six great giants.
You played a trick on them by pulling their tails, so this is only tit-for-tat, and I'm glad the monkeys had their revenge.
We must go to seek those monkeys at once, however, for it will take time to train them and we'll have to travel a good way to the Gillikin forests where they live.
The monkeys chattered and the bears growled and the voices of the jaguars and lions rumbled, and the wolves yelped and the elephants had to trumpet loudly to make their voices heard.
Say," he cried, "I've bargained for six of the biggest monkeys you ever saw.
Oh, I was going to buy the monkeysand sell them again for three times as much as I gave for them, but you bet that when I'm called on to exercise the judgment, of a man I'll be there.
The three monkeys climbed into the balloon, the ground ropes were untied, and the voyage was begun.
And so the three monkeys began to quarrel and dispute.
Up ran a pair of monkeys belonging to the neighbourhood and stood looking at him.
The cord snapped suddenly, and the two monkeys tumbled head over heels.
The original stock of monkeys was treated in the same manner or else destroyed completely, and the houses and cages thoroughly cleaned and sterilized or new ones constructed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "monkeys" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
