But a few minutes afterwards she was playing with her brothers and talking to her pet doves, so sweet and humanlike, that the fear passed away.
"John Halifax, Gentleman"
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Gammire also appeared to mistake it, for he came down upon the lawn, rose to his full height, on his "hind legs," and in that humanlike posture "walked" in a wide circle.
"Gentle Julia"
Booth Tarkington
A scuttling sound issued forth and then, half drunkenly, an enormous rat tumbled out-one of those horrible rats with the hairless, humanlike faces that had so frequently come from the life-machine.
"Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930"
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