The monkey temple is full of monkeys, and they have less apish expressions than the priests.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
When Haydn arrived, there was, in short, no native composer of real genius, and our "tardy, apish nation" was ready to welcome with special cordiality an artist whose gifts were of a higher order.
"Haydn"
J. Cuthbert Hadden
So he, fantastic out of human guise, Bent, broken, bowed, small, apish, humped of back, Marred in the mint, perfection's contrary, To sweet perfection found his marred life thrall, And-the great artist without jealousy- Knew beauty more than all.
"A Legend of Old Persia and Other Poems"
A. B. S. Tennyson