Which preposition to use with mimic
Touched later by the black magic of development, bringing brick buildings, prohibition, picture shows, real-estate boosters, speculation and attendant evils or benefits as one chooses to classify them, they became neither elemental nor ethicalmere gawky mimics of both.
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!
"They're out on the front porch and can hear you!" "Be careful about your cussin'" Bert mimicked with a snicker.
I am a better mimic at this rate than I wish to be.
On the one hand it has been held that they are sun-charms or magical ceremonies intended, on the principle of imitative magic, to ensure a needful supply of sunshine for men, animals, and plants by kindling fires which mimic on earth the great source of light and heat in the sky.
The banks of Acheron can not be more wildly funèbre, and it was companionable to hear Colin's voice mimicking out of the darkness: "In this country me do rough-a work.