Barney mimicked indolently.

HENRY BROOKE FROM UNIVERSAL BEAUTY [THE DEITY IN EVERY ATOM] Thus beauty, mimicked in our humbler strains, Illustrious through the world's great poem reigns!

"Yes, Anderson," mimicked the rancher.

she mimicked wickedly.

"They're out on the front porch and can hear you!" "Be careful about your cussin'" Bert mimicked with a snicker.

"Moves," she mimicked.

Very suddenly and wickedly Gracie mimicked the pastoral tones.

" Polly mimicked Sam's pronunciation, and laughed.

" "'That the fine bloom of culture will become rubbed off in the contact with rude, rough men, seems to me inevitable,'" mimicked Bert in pedantic tones, "'unless a firm sense of personal dignity and an equally firm sense of our obligations to more refined though absent friends hedges us about with adequate safeguards.'

A troop of lazars, with sheets folded around them, glided, like phantoms, along Paul's Walk, and mimicked in a ghastly manner the air and deportment of the gallants who had formerly thronged the place.

And still, in the centre, the mad marabout spun, and the children bobbed and mimicked him and rolled their diamond eyes.

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"?

When he mimicked the awkward walk of one boy, and the bad drawl of another, and the loutish carriage of a third, the school resounded with shouts of laughter, which seemed to our Hero a great triumph,something like the cheers which had greeted the good young King as he left the fishing-town.

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

And she mimicked him, gleefully, speaking in a low whisper.

" Again she mimicked him: "'We must try to forget it.'

I. Mimesis is a ludicrous imitation of some mistake or mispronunciation of a word, in which the error is mimicked by a false spelling, or the taking of one word for another; as, "Maister, says he, have you any wery good weal in you vâllet?"Columbian Orator, p. 292.

He certainly, in his transposition of "Absalom and Achitophel," mimicked the harmony of his original with more success than was attained by Shadwell, Buckingham or Pordage.

Then, turning to his first minister, observed how contemptible a thing was human grandeur, which could be mimicked by such diminutive insects as I.

He described and mimicked his cleaning shoes and knives; his being flogged when he refused to do this degrading work; and, finally, his speech to his countrymen when he came on shore, soliciting their assistance in capturing the vessel, and revenging his ill-treatment.

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

In their homes they mimicked their rulers as freely as they pleased.

It was daring enough, when Beckendorf mimicked Prince Metternich; but to undertake and to contrast Louis Napoleon and Beethoven, without belittling either, pales every other performance.

Ann mimicked her at her back, but to her face behaved servilely.

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