Very suddenly and wickedly Gracie mimicked the pastoral tones.

They mimic the voice and manner of the person they describe; they crow, squeal, hiss, cackle, bark, and scream like mad, and, were it only by the physical strength exerted in telling the story, keep the table in unbounded excitement.

A Dane wrote to Garrick from Copenhagen on Dec. 23, 1769:'There is some of our retinue who, not understanding a word of your language, mimic your gesture and your action: so great an impression did it make upon their minds, the scene of daggers has been repeated in dumb show a hundred times, and those most ignorant of the English idiom can cry out with rapture, "A horse, a horse; my kingdom for a horse!"' Garrick Corres. i. 375.

The best remaining things are what I have before read, and they lose nothing by my recollection of your manner of reciting 'em, for I too bear in mind "the voice, the look," of absent friends, and can occasionally mimic their manner for the amusement of those who have seen 'em.

She rolled in her gait, and would, in her rage, sometimes endeavour to catch him for the purpose of inflicting punishment, while he would run round the room, mocking her menaces and mimicking her motion.

Or was it perhaps the third, less pretty but more vivid and animated, who sat behind the tea-tray, and mimicked so expressively a soldier shouldering his rifle, and another falling dead, in her effort to ask us "when the dreadful war would be over"?

He represents an overgrown baby, but was a tumbler, and mimicked the barking of a dog.

"II guess if you come back I'll throw you out," mimicked Ben with a guffaw.

There is the very earliest cat-bird, mimicking the bobolink before the bobolink has come: what is the history of his song, then?

" Then he repeated slowly, mimicking a boy reciting a lesson: "The Mortlake Aeroplane Company.

" "Daler?" cried Eleseus suddenly, mimicking his brother.

As the tragedies of Eschylus, of Sophocles, and of Euripides were much in fashion, and were known by memory to the people, the parodies upon them would naturally strike and please, when they were accompanied by the grimaces of a good comedian, who mimicked with archness a serious character.

In that week, by whistling to him in my leisure hours, I taught him to perform almost perfectly that lively aria of Meyerbeer's, 'Folle è quei che l'oro aduna,' and also to mimic beautifully the chirping of a cricket.

'Tis grievous to sue how the pitiless mob Run round him and mimic his mournful complaint, [Illustration: Poor Crazy Robert.]

In view of these, Colonel Barre might truly say in the House of Commons, that, in this riot, "Boston was only mimicking the mother-country.

To cheat them, to lie to them, to annoy them in every possible wayto misrepresent their motives, mimic their defects, and calumniate their actionswas the conduct which he inaugurated towards them; and for the time that he continued at Roslyn the whole lower school was a Pandemonium of evil passions and despicable habits.

"You want to be moving along" mimicked the devil in Jerry Strann.

"Is that the way to do?" "You might say, 'Will you be my pardner,'" said she, mimicking the broad dialect of the region.

They have acquired new and almost unlimited powers; they can command the thunders of the heaven, mimic the earthquake, and even mock the invisible world with its own shadows.

I talk too much, laugh too much, tell foolish tales, mimic my elders and betters, andworst sin of allI have never read, never even heard of, the Missionary Magazine.

In St. Just, and other mining parishes, the young miners, mimicking their fathers' employments, bore rows of holes in the rocks, load them with gunpowder, and explode them in rapid succession by trains of the same substance.

His interest in literature became positively remarkable from this time; and the enthusiasm with which his actor's mind reflected, and, no doubt in all good faith, mimicked the various philosophical and literary enthusiasms of his friend, was, though neither realised it, a sure earnest of his future.

"That Rafael of ours," she would say to don Andrés, mimicking the long face he used to put on when bringing up her troubles with her husband, "what a rascal he is!

What can we do, when mimicking a fop, Like beating nut-trees, makes a larger crop? Faith,

Rivulets, whose crystal veins Ripple along flowery plains, Leaping torrents rushing hoarse, Mimicking the ocean's force, Leafage in its summer pride Flowers to Paradise allied.