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gorilla

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Gorilla is singer-songwriter James Taylor 's sixth studio album. Released in 1975, it was more successful than Walking Man , his previous release, with two hits: " Mexico " and " How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) ", which rose to the top five on the ...

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n. 1 The largest of the apes, native to the forests of central Africa, and known for its trait of knuckle-walking 2 A big and brutish man or a thug; a goon or ruffian.

Usage examples of gorilla.

Trevor lay by her chair, contentedly sucking the head of his toy gorilla while Bev and I looked at the plates.

It is a very young baby, and not such a baby as is fit to give a gorilla the size of Bongo any kind of struggle, so Bongo has no trouble whatever in handling it.

Mama puts up quite a squawk about Bongo grabbing her baby, because no Mama wishes her baby to keep company with a gorilla, and this Mama starts in screaming very loud, and trying to take the baby away from Bongo, so what does Bongo do but run right up on the roof of the Garden by way of a big electric sign which hangs down on the Forty-ninth Street side.

I kept on talking of Fortuna, and asked the abbe if she could improvise in the manner of Gorilla.

Remembering what Duster had said about the door across the hall, he knew that Treblaw had suspected the presence of the gorillas.

The crook had figured that Duster and the gorillas were by this time in the hall.

The gorilla, coming high in agony, sprawled squarely upon Duster just as The Shadow fired.

But when the door had opened to reveal Duster and the gorilla, The Shadow had gained no chance to fire.

He had had them instructed by the famous Gorilla, who was crowned poetess-laureate at the capitol by night, six years later.

Two days after the coronation Gorilla and her admirers left Rome, ashamed of what they had done.

Koker Hosch and a crew of gorillas were the ones who were in the sedan.

The gorillas nodded when they heard the orders that Konk had promised Clyde.

Leaving Clyde with the first pair of gorillas, Konk followed those who had dragged Cliff from view.

The Shadow was shipped to Koy Dow inside a big box, with some truckmen that looked like gorillas bringing it.

Cagan glared at the sheriff and shot Merissa a look that would have intimidated a gorilla.