monkey man

Example Sentences

• "Everybody seemed happy. The goose and marble man, the monte player, purse trickster, monkey man, ginger-pop man, ice cream vendor, and the young man who gave away pound notes for sixteen shillings, and after wearables and so called jewellery at a grand profit to himself, all were happy and contented looking."
• "The racing clubs might decide among themselves, and let such be a rule under the South Australian Jockey Club rules, that no wheel of fortune man, "monkey man," jenny, or any such character should be allowed on any course, while such clubs have responsible officers to work the Totalizator machine."
• "Each organ grinder has a regular beat (this applies also to the hideous Italian monkey man) and he does it with painful regularity to the bitter annoyance and discomfort of storekeepers and pedestrians."
• "Then we have a monkey man, with three Simians in his charge - one a loag-tailed, grey-haired, whiskered lass; another a stumpy, almost hairless gentleman, much given to hand-shaking and hugging, and one of the uncouth ourang-outang type."
• "We seem no nearer, however, to the discovery of that more important link between the quadrumana and the bimana - the monkey-man, or man-monkey, gifted with a rudimentary hippocampus minor, or toe-bone, and rejoicing in the possession of articulate speech."
• "Mr. Swift MacNeill is not exactly beautiful. He has a rather prominent upper jaw with large teeth, which when angry he protrudes. Still the hon. member does not bear even a remote resemblance to the monkey-man with his name underneath in Punch (Toby, M.P.'s Diary) of August 23, and one can scarcely wonder at his resenting suoh a caricature violently."