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He started back again through the trees, swiftly, swinging monkey-like from limb to limb, following a zigzag course that he tried to select with an eye for the difficulties of the trail beneath. Where the underbrush was heaviest, where fallen trees blocked the way, he led the footsteps of the creature below them; but all to no avail.
This monkey-like animal itself, again, is the product of special antecedent causes, filling a particular place in a particular tertiary fauna and flora, and impossible even in the fauna and flora of our own earth and our own tropics before the evolution of those succulent fruits and grain-like seeds, for feeding on which it was specially adapted.
There is something plausible in the view that these little men are nearer than normal mankind are to the monkeys, and the fur-like hairiness of their skin has been cited in support of it; but a fatal objection is that the men of the pure pygmy race of Africa and Asia are really not more, but less, monkey-like than many full-sized savages.
Something immense and suffocating had closed about her heart. Her racing pulses had ceased to beat. A figure familiar to her a man's figure, unimposing in height, unremarkable in build, but straight, straight as his own sword-blade had bounded from the car and scaled the intervening gate with monkey-like agility.
I never saw such a countenance like one of those demon-grotesques we see in the Gothic side-aisles and groinings a dreadful grimace, monkey-like and insane and his thin hand caught up his ebony stick, and shook it paralytically in the air.
With an effort she lifted her up till the monkey-like fingers gripped the rough bark again. Another effort and the little body was resting on the round of the tree, one more and she was beside her. Now Rachel rose to her feet again and laughed, but it was not the mad laughter that had scared Ishmael and the Zulus; it was her own laughter, that of a healthy, cultured woman.
The moonlight slept upon the wains piled up with yellow sheaves and plainly revealed the little monkey-like black, seated on the summit of the foremost; and this young gentleman had managed to procure a banjo, and was playing.
There is paralysis and insensibility of the right side, and, as is often the case in right hemiplegia, the speech is indistinct and difficult. Nevertheless he is constantly haranguing any one who will listen to him, abusing his physicians, or preaching with a monkey-like impudence rather than with reasoned clearness radicalism in politics and atheism in religion.
I looked at her aged, monkey-like face and the intensity of her beady eyes with wonderment. There was vindictiveness there but no fear, no excitement even, except the excitement of hate and yet this old woman was the same who could not be induced to travel on a railroad train for fear of an accident. It was several hours later that the doctor arrived. He was much like the men among whom he lived.
At this the Missing Link came out of his straw, growling, and springing to the perch hung by one hand, with his legs drawn up in a very monkey-like attitude. "What the deuce do you mean?" thundered the Professor, manfully. "I mean this," said McKnight, addressing the crowd "you have been victimised. That creature is no monkey. It is a human being of some kind."
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