14 Verbs to Use for the Word imitators

He has, indeed, a unique way of spending his large fortune, without precedent, at least in this country, and not likely to find many imitators.

It seemed to be the art of Nature herself; as though, in a fit of playfulness, she had imitated her imitator.

" "I have, indeed, lived fifteen years in solitude," said the hermit, "but have no desire that my example should gain any imitators.

The count, by his high rank and fortune, had the means of encouraging the imitators of the ancients, and of procuring the best models in Italy for study.

He excelled his imitators not only in his French urbanitythe polished wit and delicate grace of his stylebut in the dexterous unfolding of his plot, and in the wisdom and truth of his criticism of life, and his insight into character.

More was sent to the editor than he expected and desired; his success awakened imitators; similar periodicals arose which crowded upon the public, first monthly, then weekly and daily, and which finally produced that confusion of Babel of which we were and are witnesses, and which, strictly speaking, springs from the fact that everyone wishes to talk, but no one is willing to listen..

Each possesses a perfect facility and command over his own peculiar manner, which has secured him from having any successful imitator.

But he spoilt his vehicle by a careless diffuseness, by a violent categorical tendency, and by other faults which may be called faults of breeding rather than faults of arta ghastly volubility, an indiscretion, a lust for description rather than suggestion; and thus he has numbered no followers, and only a few inconsiderable imitators.

To men of this description it matters not whether or not their children are proving themselves skilful imitators of their evil example,they may curse and swear, lie and steal,so long as they can enjoy the society of their pot companions, it is to them a matter of total indifference.

As THEOCRITUS is famoused for his Idyllia in Greek, and VIRGIL for his Eclogues in Latin: so SPENSER their imitator in his Shepherds Calendar is renowned for the like argument; and honoured for fine poetical invention, and most exquisite wit.

The patience and skill of the olden scribe have baffled the imitator; for, on an examination with a magnifying glass, it has been found that, in a space of a quarter of an inch, there are no fewer than a hundred and fifty-eight interlacements of a ribbon pattern of white lines edged by black ones on a black ground.

Johnson complimented him "for having shewn to all, who should hereafter attempt the study of our ancient authors, the way to success, by directing them to the perusal of the books which their author had read;" a method of illustration which since, certainly, has not wanted imitators.

"Let every man remember that cause for courage, which may be most agreeable to his own habits and opinions," concluded this imitator of the Hannibals and Scipios of old; "for that is the surest and the briefest method of bringing his mind into an obstinate state.

but she was so loud in his praise for covering her gross imitators with confusion, that Bachaumont and Chapelle, two of her intimate friends, ventured to introduce the young dramatist into her society.

14 Verbs to Use for the Word  imitators