He had done with thrones; he had even done with Tower Cottageunless indeed his pale shade were to hold nocturnal converse with the robust and flamboyant ghost of Captain Duggle; the one vaunting his unreal vanished greatness, mouthing orations and mimicking pomp; the other telling, in language garnished with strange and horrible oaths, of those dark and lurid terrors which once had driven him from this very place, leaving it ablaze behind.

"Then, my friend, I cannotcongratulateyouon the societyinwhich you move," replied De Chauxville, mimicking his manner.

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.

" "Very well," mimicking Laura's cool tones; then with a change of voice, "Laura, what is the matter?

As they seemed to prefer mimicking our attempts to speak the York dialect to using their own, we could not obtain much information; they carried kylies and dowaks, but had left their spears and shields with the rest of their party, who did not make their appearance.

He was mimicking with a ghastly realism the death-throes of his four victims.

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

The dance began with a special contra-dance, in which the performers copied with great exactness the profound bows and deep courtesies of the period, mimicking their masters and mistresses with curious grotesque grace.

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

Within a few days she would be enacting the scene she was now mimicking; and it amused her to see in advance just what impression she would produce on Mrs. Fairford's guests.

Won't you show me your letter, Christina?" "No, John," she answered, mimicking my impassioned tones.

One of the roughs danced an ungraceful measure to the music of the accordion, mimicking, as he did so, the queer contortions into which the musician twisted his features in perfect harmony with his woful strains.

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

Boys started in and out of their places, playing at puss-in-the-corner with other boys; there were laughing boys, singing boys, talking boys, dancing boys, howling boys; boys shuffled with their feet, boys whirled about him, grinning, making faces, mimicking him behind his back and before his eyes: mimicking his poverty, his boots, his coat, his mother, every thing belonging to him that they should have had consideration for.

Boys started in and out of their places, playing at puss-in-the-corner with other boys; there were laughing boys, singing boys, talking boys, dancing boys, howling boys; boys shuffled with their feet, boys whirled about him, grinning, making faces, mimicking him behind his back and before his eyes: mimicking his poverty, his boots, his coat, his mother, every thing belonging to him that they should have had consideration for.

At last one day he broke his halter, and frisking into the house just as his master sat down to dinner, he pranced and capered about, mimicking the frolics of the little favourite, upsetting the table and smashing the crockery with his clumsy efforts.

that we should live without a qualm at dangling such a flock of mimicking parroquets at our heels a while, and then, when they are well infected, well perfumed with the wind of our vices, dropping them off, as tadpoles do their tails, joint by joint into the mud!

I have no fancy for having her talking about me, and most likely mimicking me to other people.

'The idea of parting with it now, when it is actually worth more than it was when we bought it!'" he quoted, mimicking the thin-lipped, acidulous protest.

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.

2. The close, curt, short, or stopped i; as in ink, limit, disfigure, mimicking.

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

hurry!)" said Navvy, mimicking Jones that morning.

he answers, laughing a little, and slightly mimicking my tragic tone; "why not, Nancy?" I make no answer.

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.