The captain and mate, followed by four men from each boat, scrambled up the side like Monkeys, and made a dash for the cabin as a man came out and demanded gruffly: Hello!
"The Hilltop Boys on Lost Island"
Cyril Burleigh
How can they sit there laughing and chattering like a set of Monkeys?
"Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir"
Charles Garvice
Hence the gratifying fact that it has had no child born to it, and that the complete little men and women whom it has produced have been observed to bear a likeness to old Monkeys with something depressing on their minds.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes