Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue featured an orangutan --- or ourang-outang as Poe called it. ❋ The Stiletto Gang (2008)
The “Old Man” is not an ourang-outang nor an Ifrít as in Sayf al-Mulúk, Night dcclxxi., but a jocose exaggeration of a custom prevailing in parts of Asia and especially in the African interior where the Tsetse-fly prevents the breeding of burden-beasts. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The screams of women suddenly and strangely raised, was the first thing that arrested the departure of the multitude, when those who glanced their eyes back, saw Sylvan, the great ourang-outang, produce himself in the lists, to their surprise and astonishment. ❋ Unknown (2008)
An animal, which from the nape of its neck downwards might resemble a man, or one of those apes which we call ourang-outang or the man of the woods, would no more be a man than an ape or a bear whose head and tail were cut off. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Straight-backed, small-headed, big-barrelled oxen, as dissimilar from any wild species as can well be imagined, contended for attention and praise with sheep of half-a-dozen different breeds and styes of bloated preposterous pigs, no more like a wild boar or sow than a city alderman is like an ourang-outang. ❋ Unknown (2007)
But what can you expect from the masses, when there are men of education, zoologists even, who, instead of admitting what is so familiar to them, the essential identity of man and animal, are bigoted and stupid enough to offer a zealous opposition to their honest and rational colleagues, when they class man under the proper head as an animal, or demonstrate the resemblance between him and the chimpanzee or ourang-outang. ❋ Unknown (2004)
One of our arms being bared, they expressed the liveliest surprise and admiration at its whiteness, just in the same way in which I have seen the ourang-outang do at the Zoological Gardens. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Before one of them could move, the monstrous man had swung himself like some huge ourang-outang over the balustrade of the balcony. ❋ Gilbert Keith (2003)
In the remarkable paper read (1861) by Professor Busk before the Ethnological Society, that eminent physiologist proved that the Asiatic apes, typified by the ourang-outang, are brachycephalic, like the Mongolians amongst whom they live, or who live amongst them; whilst the gorillas and the African anthropoids are dolichocephalic as the negroes. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Monboddo agreed with Rousseau that for a creature like the ourang-outang to invent language must have been extremely difficult. ❋ ALVAR ELLEG (1968)
Pappan_, two species of ourang-outang, determined by Mr. Brooke. ❋ Henry Keppel (N/A)
The natives of Borneo call the ourang-outang the _Mias_, of which they say there are two distinct sorts; one called the _Mias rombi_ (similar to the specimen aboard and the two in the Zoological Gardens), and the _Mias pappan_, a creature far larger, and more difficult to procure. ❋ Henry Keppel (N/A)
_ -- I received from the rajah a present of an ourang-outang, young, and like others I have seen, but better clothed, with fine long hair of a bright chestnut color. ❋ Henry Keppel (N/A)
Cuvier -- Marsden has the name right in his dictionary -- and at the same time the mutilated hand of an ourang-outang of _enormous_ size. ❋ Henry Keppel (N/A)
"It's too dark to see well," he said to himself, "and this thing bounces like a tugboat in a gale, but if that ourang-outang wasn't standing under that gaslight yonder, I'll be hanged!" ❋ Lemuel Ely Quigg (N/A)
It is impossible to imagine the extreme ugliness of some of the sooty gentry; a decent ourang-outang might, without presumption, vie with many of these people, even of the _fair sex_, and an impartial judge should certainly decide that the said ourang-outang was the handsomer animal. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
This very significant opposition of the thumb to the fingers, furnishing the complete grasp by the hand, is characteristic of the human race, and is wanting in the hand of the ape, chimpanzee, and ourang-outang. ❋ Albert F. Blaisdell (N/A)
The ourang-outang, or the man of the woods, is the most singular animal found in these regions. ❋ Henry Keppel (N/A)
Neither had Mr. Brooke seen much of it; unless an excursion or two he had made in search of new specimens of the ourang-outang, or mias, may be brought under that head. ❋ Henry Keppel (N/A)
