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Sentence Examples Aladar the iguanodon, the Tarzan of the dinosaur world, is raised by lemurs. At the last tutorial, Sue informed me that it was time I stop speaking Spanish like a Latin Tarzan and get cracking on my conjugations. If you've ever had a Tarzan fantasy, the Monteverde Cloud Forest is just the place to try zinging through the treetops. I liked Tarzan, but there hasn't been a truly great Disney animated film that didn't come from Pixar since The Lion King. I suppose Olympic swimmer Johnny Weissmuller was the ichiban Tarzan portrayer and Maureen O'Sullivan with prototypical Jane. First appearing on screen in 1918, Tarzan was the original Hollywood muscleman. Import gorillas into the backyard, and amplify the wetas to a flesh-crawlingly revolting size, and Tarzan is reborn as one of ours. In places, the jungle-like vegetation surrounds the river so densely it feels like an old Tarzan movie. Young Tarzan grows up among the apes, but is always keenly aware that he is different. Along with Sherlock Holmes, Tarzan and James Bond, the wonder dog is one of the most enduring characters in British literature. All right, Tarzan has no black characters, not even servants, neither noble nor ignoble savages. He talks about attending the dum-dum convention in August, celebrating the 100th anniversary of Tarzan. I bought Tarzan comic books, and even had a few issues of ERB-dom, a mimeographed fanzine devoted to the works of Burroughs. The putative author is indeed Cheeta, the superannuated chimpanzee star of just short of a dozen Tarzan movies and the sidekick of American beefcake Johnny Weissmuller. When I was ten, I saved enough money to buy a second-hand book called Tarzan of the Apes. I suspect that the new Tarzan will run into the same problems that beset the recent Lone Ranger remake. Tarzan Relive your child with the timeless Tarzan and his feisty friend Jane. Before there was Jane Goodall, or even Tarzan and king kong, the gorilla was a creature of mystery. Or a modernized Tarzan might lead African miners on strike against unscrupulous multinationals. I fell passionately in love with Tarzan, and was most distressed when he married the wrong Jane. Show More Sentences But Tarzan is also the armature for a heady display which reaches way beyond the simple chronicling of a pop phenomenon. I watched Tarzan movies and the short-lived Tarzan TV series. At the forest along the trail there is a high ropes course which consists of ziplines, rope crossings and Tarzan swings. Disney Online is offering TARZAN fans VIP access to the animated feature film's red-carpet world premiere on Saturday, June 12, at www. One thought of oneself, idiotically, skinny as I was, as a sort of Tarzan. On Sunday mornings a man would go to all the pubs along Netherfield Road selling American broadsheet comics like Tarzan of the Apes, Joe Palooka, and Little Orphan Anne. As late as 1963, one of every 30 paperbacks sold had been written by Burroughs, and many of the more than 50 Tarzan movies remained Saturday afternoon television staples. With brains plus beauty, Elissa is hackette by day and femme Tarzan by night, swinging through Liverpool's urban jungle of bars, clubs and parties. I've been in and seen Broadway comparable productions of Grease and Peter Pan, learned how to hit homeruns like Babe Ruth, and soared through the woods like Tarzan. Actually I suppose it's restarting, but seeing as how my first time round was when Tarzan was editing Moorcock Weekly or whatever maybe my gafia can be forgotten. Examples from Classical Literature They were as happy about the whole mess as a pair of kids erecting a Tarzan dwelling in a tree. And I would think that maybe in a way Etl was like Tarzan, being raised by apes. So once more Tarzan of the Apes with his hideous pack took up his search for the ape-man's son and the pursuit of his abductor. That evening in the little waiting room at the station Tarzan caught Jane alone for a moment. Burning with white-hot anger was the High Priestess, her heart a seething, molten mass of hatred for Tarzan of the Apes. Sooner or later they will get you, my dear Tarzan, and then they will lock the wild man of the woods up behind iron bars. This time Tarzan saw the pock-marked old owner of the ape, whom he did not recognize as the wily Paulvitch of former days. So quickly did Tarzan of the Apes drag back his prey that Kulonga's cry of alarm was throttled in his windpipe. And so it was that Tarzan had come to Algeria in the guise of an American hunter and traveler to keep a close eye upon Lieutenant Gernois. Having accomplished his aim and driven the enemy from his lair, Tarzan gathered an armful of large fronds and climbed to his dripping couch. Finally Tarzan succeeded in seizing one of the most persistent of his attackers. Tarzan stooped to examine the shreds of clothing that still lay about the bones. Again, that night, as the two sat before their camp fire, Tarzan played with his shining baubles. When Terkoz saw Tarzan approaching without his arrows, he continued to belabor the poor woman in a studied effort to affront his hated chieftain. Thus the old ape imparted to the son of Tarzan the boy's first lesson in jungle lore. Inwardly as well as outwardly Tarzan had reverted to beast and in the lives of beasts, time, as a measurable aspect of duration, has no meaning. They reminded Tarzan of melodramatic villains he had seen at the theaters in Paris. Tarzan would grin sheepishly and pick up his knife and fork again, but at heart he hated them. She would bring a great price farther north, if we found it too difficult to collect ransom money from this Tarzan. Slowly Tarzan unfolded the note the sailor had thrust into his hand, and read it.Instantly his senses awoke, and he was again Tarzan of the Apes. Show More Sentences She looked up at Tarzan to find him leaning toward her gazing on the miniatures with an expression of astonishment. It was then that Tarzan first noticed that the fellow's upper canines were unusually long and exceedingly sharp. When necessity demanded, Tarzan of the Apes sloughed the thin veneer of his civilization and with it the hampering apparel that was its badge. Now Tarzan preferred to bait the blacks in as theatric a manner as his fertile imagination could evolve. For a hundred feet the steps wound spirally up, until at a sudden turning Tarzan came into a narrow cleft between two rocky walls. As Tarzan and the girl came into full view of the group, a British Tommy leveled his rifle at the ape-man. Tarzan was about to leap after the two when he felt a light touch upon his arm. No other bull of the tribe of Kerchak was so good a trailer as Tarzan, for his trained senses were aided by a high order of intelligence. From the old negress, Tambudza, Tarzan had gathered a suggestion that now filled his mind with doubts and misgivings. Tarzan made a face at the king of beasts, whereat Numa, greatly to the ape-man's surprise, started to climb up into the branches toward him. There was none thus to cling to Tarzan, who yearned so for the love of someone, of something. And so Tarzan always came back to Nature in the spirit of a lover keeping a long deferred tryst after a period behind prison walls. Tarzan swung himself to the trees once more, and with swift noiselessness sped along high above the trail. In another moment he had opened a door, and, drawing aside a heavy curtain, obsequiously bowed Tarzan into a dimly lighted apartment. Gradually he dropped behind but he did not give up the pursuit, and now Tarzan realized how much hinged upon the strength of the untested vines. They were standing on deck at a point which was temporarily deserted, and as Tarzan came upon them they were in heated argument with a woman. Upward went Tarzan toward a sturdy crotch across which he long since had laid and secured a little platform of branches. But Tarzan tired of it, as he found that kingship meant the curtailment of his liberty. For a moment there was no reply, and Tarzan added a few more ounces of pressure, which elicited a horrified shriek of pain from the great beast. To Tarzan of the Apes the expedition was in the nature of a holiday outing. Show More Sentences So the scream of Sabor, the lioness, galvanized the brain and muscles of little Tarzan into instant action. Tarzan had come to look with contempt upon the blacks, principally because of their garrulity. The men crowded about Tarzan with many questions, but his only answer was a laughing depreciation of his feat. On they came to the portals of Kulonga's hut, the very one in which Tarzan had wrought his depredations. The noise of his entrance brought Paulvitch to his feet, where he stood glowering menacingly at Tarzan. Manu's tone was sneering, and Tarzan knew that it was because little Manu thought all creatures feared mighty Bolgani, the gorilla. At the end of the line Tarzan could still hear the grumbling of the disgruntled priest. In a moment Tarzan and Taug would be torn to shreds that would later form the PIECE DE RESISTANCE of the savage orgy of a Dum-Dum. And so Tarzan harangued the moon, and when Goro did not reply, Tarzan of the Apes waxed wroth. For the first time in hours a feeling of fear swept over her, and Tarzan felt her draw away as though shrinking from him. Tarzan of the Apes, feasting well upon a juicy haunch from Bara, the deer, was vaguely conscious of a troubled mind. A sudden flare of the fire threw the grotesque figure into high relief, and Tarzan recognized her as Momaya, the mother of Tibo. Then it was that Tarzan translated the strange ceremony that had preceded his introduction into this holy of holies. It is well for Tarzan that he did not guess the truth, for the knowledge would have but added a hundredfold to his suffering. Tarzan dropped to the ground and commenced to examine the earth about the excavation. Tarzan become suddenly rigid as his keen ears noted the cessation of the regular inspirations and expirations of his companion. Tarzan could not hope to make the man suffer as he had suffered, since physical pain may never approach the exquisiteness of mental torture. Tarzan had reached the doorway over the corpses of all that had stood to dispute his way, before Werper guessed at the reason for his immunity. Tarzan saw the black cross the room to the table upon which he placed another dish of food before the feasters. For a few minutes after the black hurled the firebrand no eyes appeared, though Tarzan could hear the soft padding of feet all about him. Show More Sentences Through the opening leaped Tarzan, and a moment later the room was flooded with light from a dozen electric bulbs. The fly in the ointment, however, was the accusation Tarzan had made against this woman. Preceded by the lion Tarzan descended into the valley, which, at this point, was forested with large trees. This done Tarzan busied himself fitting the other bags, one over each of Numa's formidably armed paws. With a final scream of jungle invective and an apelike grimace at his departing foe, Tarzan continued along his way. And then he went on more slowly and with greater stealth and caution, for now Tarzan of the Apes was seeking a kill. It will go well indeed with Herr Hauptmann Fritz Schneider if he brings in the famous Tarzan of the Apes as a prisoner of war. De Coude was so relieved to have had this double assurance of his wife's loyalty that he felt no rancor at all toward Tarzan. For a time Tarzan stood in statuesque silence, listening, his sensitive nostrils dilating as he assayed each passing breeze. Without a backward glance at the awe-struck soldiers Tarzan leaped the trench and was gone. And at the last minute she left a message for him, to be transmitted by Tarzan of the Apes. As their eyes fell on Tarzan, surprise was writ large on each countenance. He had never understood the transformation that had been wrought in Tarzan by the blow upon his head, other than to attribute it to a form of amnesia. His yellow-green eyes were fastened upon Tarzan as he halted just within the clearing and glared enviously at the successful hunter, for Numa had had no luck this night. As Tarzan drew nearer he called aloud to the ape and the girl heard from the human lips the same sounds that had fallen from those of the anthropoid. Tarzan feared that the anthropoid would awaken the sleepers. Tarzan had always hated water except as a medium for quenching his thirst. Tarzan looked at the girl, a quizzical expression upon his face. When they were again alone D'Arnot looked quizzically at Tarzan. Tarzan let him up, and in a few minutes all were back at their vocations, as though naught had occurred to mar the tranquility of their primeval forest haunts. Show More Sentences This day he learned something, and that he did not lose his life in the learning of it, was a matter of great surprise to Tarzan, and the fly in the ointment, to Tublat. Heaping some larger twigs and sticks upon the tiny fire, Tarzan soon had quite a respectable blaze roaring in the enlarging cavity of the dead tree. D'Arnot and Tarzan were first upon the field of honor.Neither had ever mentioned the duel or the cause of it since that morning upon the field of honor. Taug, but a moment before filled with rage toward Tarzan of the Apes, stood close to the battling pair, his red-rimmed, wicked little eyes glaring at them. Even your meat stinks, but it is juicy and makes Tarzan strong. For a week they did little but rest, D'Arnot coaching Tarzan in French. Once every moon Tarzan would go swinging rapidly back through the swaying branches to have a day with his books, and to replenish his supply of arrows. As Tarzan watched, through narrowed lids, the last of the warriors disappear beyond a turn in the trail, his expression altered to the urge of a newborn thought. The chief was among the first to return to the village, and as it was he that Tarzan was most anxious to interview, he lost no time in entering into a palaver with the black. No littlest beetle that he might eat had given evidence that life of any sort existed here, and it was a hungry and thirsty Tarzan who lay down to rest in the evening. Then Tarzan fitted an arrow to his bow, and drawing the slim shaft far back let drive with all the force of the tough wood that only he could bend. Then Tarzan and Abdul stepped into the semidarkness of the court. As Tarzan leaped from the roadster that had met him at the station and ran up the steps to his London town house he was met at the door by a dry-eyed but almost frantic woman. Tarzan dove into the water, and swam around the wreck to the lifeboat. Since he had first seen Tarzan again from the wings of the theater there had been forming in his deadened brain the beginnings of a desire for revenge. For a week the sun was obscured by heavy clouds, while violent rain and wind storms obliterated the last remnants of the spoor Tarzan constantly though vainly sought. This seemed to Tarzan a splendid plan for safeguarding valuables. They would be content to escape today the menace of Numa, while Tarzan saw the necessity, and the means as well, of safeguarding the days to come. For several days Tarzan traversed a country rich in game and watercourses. Three weeks later Tarzan and D'Arnot were passengers on board a French steamer bound for Lyons, and after a few days in that city D'Arnot took Tarzan to Paris. Show More Sentences Three days from the spot where Tarzan had been marooned the Kincaid came to anchor in the mouth of a great river, and presently Rokoff came to Jane Clayton's cabin. Tarzan was nearer to contentment than he had been since the peace and tranquility of his jungle had been broken in upon by the advent of the marooned Porter party. Her escape seemed to them little short of miraculous, and it was the consensus of opinion that it could have been achieved by no other man than Tarzan of the Apes. Tarzan grabbed the Belgian about the waist, and bearing him beneath his arm as he might have borne a sack of flour, leaped forward in an attempt to break through the cordon. Tarzan now swam to shore and clambered quickly upon dry land. Finally, however, Tarzan succeeded in silencing them, on the plea that their noise would attract the Arabs to their hiding-place, when all would be slaughtered. They did not know that Tarzan had roped the savage beast and tied him to a tree before he came to earth and leaped about before the rearing cat, to tantalize him. Tarzan was on the point of going off to look for them himself, when he caught the yellow glint of a sleek hide moving cautiously through the jungle toward Clayton. With drooping shoulders and dull eyes Tarzan stood gazing dumbly at the insensate panel which hid from him what horrid secret he dared not even guess. The wearing of the Arab burnoose which Tarzan had placed upon his person had aroused in the mind of the anthropoid a desire for similar mimicry of the Tarmangani. Then the priestess, standing above him, began reciting what Tarzan took to be an invocation, the while she slowly raised her thin, sharp knife aloft. That night she slept in the crotch of a tree, as Tarzan had so often told her that he was accustomed to doing, and early the next morning was upon her way again. When I was a little balu my skin, I presume, looked very white indeed against the beautiful, black coat of Kala, my foster mother and so they called me Tarzan, the Tarmangani. Tarzan was not far behind and he was gaining, but the distance was so short that he scarce hoped to overhaul the carnivore before it had felled Teeka. Tarzan growled hideously and struck at the cat's face with his knife. Here, on this branch, a caterpillar has been crushed by the fugitive's great foot, and Tarzan knows instinctively where that same foot would touch in the next stride. And as D'Arnot placed his finger upon North America, Tarzan smiled and laid his palm upon the page, spanning the great ocean that lay between the two continents. Tarzan knew the note, and he knew that it spelled neither rage nor hunger, and then he risked all on a single throw, encouraged by that low whine. He wanted to rid himself forever of Tarzan, and at the same time reap an ample revenge for the humiliations and defeats that he had suffered at his hands. And thus came Tarzan of the Apes to the first outpost of civilization. Show More Sentences And the son of Tarzan skipped across the room, slipped through the open window, and slid to liberty by way of the down spout from an eaves trough. Cautiously and after infinite patience Tarzan passed the final outpost. It was quite dark when Tarzan returned to the village of Mbonga and took his now polished perch in the tree which overhangs the palisade upon one side of the walled enclosure. All the way back to the stamping ground of the apes, Tarzan sought for an explanation of the strange power which had stayed his hand and prevented him from slaying Mbonga. Find more words! 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