Sentence Examples

1. This being as it is, it is clear that this ape speaks by the spirit of the devil and I am astonished they have not denounced him to the Holy Office, and put him to the question, and forced it out of him by whose virtue it is that he divines because it is certain this ape is not an astrologer neither his master nor he sets up, or knows how to set up, those figures they call judiciary, which are now so common in Spain that there is not a jade, or page, or old cobbler, that will not undertake to set up a figure as readily as pick up a knave of cards from the ground, bringing to nought the marvellous truth of the science by their lies and ignorance.
2. Evan thought this one looked similar to an ape, only it had red fur and a spiked tail.
3. He gets two reals for every question if the ape answers I mean if his master answers for him after he has whispered into his ear and so it is believed that this same Master Pedro is very rich.
4. Not half an hour, nay, barely a minute ago, I saw myself lord of kings and emperors, with my stables filled with countless horses, and my trunks and bags with gay dresses unnumbered and now I find myself ruined and laid low, destitute and a beggar, and above all without my ape, for, by my faith, my teeth will have to sweat for it before I have him caught and all through the reckless fury of sir knight here, who, they say, protects the fatherless, and rights wrongs, and does other charitable deeds but whose generous intentions have been found wanting in my case only, blessed and praised be the highest heavens!
5. The whole audience was thrown into confusion, the ape fled to the roof of the inn, the cousin was frightened, and even Sancho Panza himself was in mighty fear, for, as he swore after the storm was over, he had never seen his master in such a furious passion.
6. Don Quixote explained his wish, and begged him to ask his ape at once to tell him whether certain things which had happened to him in the cave of Montesinos were dreams or realities, for to him they appeared to partake of both.
7. Alex would then frostily remind the big ape that squeezing me was pointless and order him to cut me loose.
8. Its huge mass was ripped with muscle, and the way it stood and walked resembled that of an ape.
9. The Frenchman followed in despair the ape, razor still in hand, occasionally stopping to look back and gesticulate at its pursuer, until the latter had nearly come up with it.