The tendency to ape foreign fashions.

I do not mean the cringing man, the flattering man, the man who apes humility for his own ends, because he wants to climb high, by pretending to be lowly.

It is not for me To put upon myself the air of kings, To ape their manners and their lofty state.

The German is not a sportsman as we understand the term, though the modern young German who apes English ways, comes out to East Africa occasionally to make collections for his ancestral Schloss.

I tried to ape his voice and manner, but I wasn't so quiet as he.

(Greek, kosmos, "the world.") COS'TARD, a clown who apes the court wits of Queen Elizabeth's time.

Pray understand me: by using the word "imitate," I do not mean that I wish you to ape the style of any favourite author.

Persons in humble class of life will often ape their betters, dressing after them, and absolutely going without necessary food in order to get some piece of finery.

We just aped our elders.

" "You're a couple of pickpockets aping the gentleman," said the skipper, and he turned to the mate.

But remember, dear, that it is both bad taste and bad economy for poor people to try to ape the rich.

But, notwithstanding his increased infirmities, and utter unfitness for the part he attempted to play, he still affected a youthful air, and still aped all the extravagances and absurdities in dress and manner of the gayest and youngest court coxcomb.

"Is it thus that he apes the follies of his betters?

Stifling their sense, they lived, aping the fool, In public praising act and word and thing Just as the whims of madmen swayed their breath. XIII.

Here was no effort to ape the forms of a cathedral, but neither was there any careless, cheap slovenliness.

Here were some men playing cards for money, and two boys, twelve or fourteen years old, playing poker for the same and trying in every way to ape the older gamblers and bet their money as freely and swear as loud as the old sports.

Paredes, however, aping the gestures of an invalid, was less to Bobby's taste than his satanic appearance when he had come from the private staircase.

Unlucky, as Fungoso in the play, These sparks with awkward vanity display What the fine gentleman wore yesterday; And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our grandsires, in their doublets dressed.

'mid wounds above Dim buoys give hint of death below Sea-ambuscades, where evil art had aped Hecla that hides in snow.

You won't get any handsomer, by squinting like poor Joe; nor speak any pleasanter for lisping like me; nor walk any better for apeing hobbling.

For this little school of Machiavellian apes the hopes of a successful escape lie in the abandonment of their friends.

But England's Redcoats must not ape The Hyde Park howl, that's clear; So no more row, row, row, row, From the British Grenadier!

An older man might have inwardly moralized on the folly of the animal, aping humanity in thus earnestly striving after what would yield no nourishment when obtained.

The glow ebbing from his face, his lips tightening, the thick lids drooping low over his eyes, he sat in apparent abstraction, aping the impassivity of the graven idols that graced his study.

But as from a school of works, aping the creative, incident and romance are ruthlessly discarded, so may character and drama be omitted or subordinated to romance.