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  • He was adorable, with dirty blond hair and an ape-like neck.

    Shrine Meg Pokrass 2011

  • Over one million years older than "Lucy" this new specimen had even more "ape-like" characteristics than our closer ancestor did - given that "Lucy" already closely resembled more modern hominid body plan (skeletal structure and gait).

    Harlan Ellison on God 2009

  • And by killing, incessant killing, by making a shambles of the planet, those ape-like creatures have developed even into you and me.

    THE HUMAN DRIFT 2010

  • The failing of the book was in going from a complex and fantastic world of air ships and machinery and exotic places to a religious dogma coupled with a fascination for an ape-like race.

    “Mainspring” by Jay Lake (Tor, 2007) « The BookBanter Blog 2010

  • When Joan started to return to the house, she was compelled to pass among the boat-carriers, who lingered on the beach to chatter in queer, ape-like fashion about the events of the night.

    Chapter 10 2010

  • The idea that hairy, ape-like creatures roam the wildernesses of the world has gripped the public imagination since the 1950s, though the legend of Bigfoot—or Sasquatch or Yeti—goes back centuries earlier.

    Finding True North, Chasing Elusive Bigfoot Meghan Cox Gurdon 2011

  • Farmers living in Belarus 'northern Grodno province last Summer reported dozens of sightings of an ape-like creature in neighbouring swamps.

    Belarus Ape Hunt Off 2009

  • Farmers living in Belarus 'northern Grodno province last Summer reported dozens of sightings of an ape-like creature in neighbouring swamps.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • Mr. CHARLIE PIERCE (Author, "Idiot America"): No, no, that dress doesn't, make you look ape-like.

    Limericks 2010

  • Smith is an ape-like man with “an enormous prognathous jaw,” large yellow teeth, and eyes that are also yellow and muddy.

    Le Milieu, Le Moment, La Race: Literary Naturalism in Jack London's White Fang 2010

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