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Sentences ending with imitate

Everything was similar: the ladies' subtle talk, the cards, the general raising his voice at the card table, and the samovar and the tea cakes; only one thing was lacking that he had always seen at the evening parties he wished to imitate. [2]
The face had some particular sort of wisdom, difficult to define and impossible to imitate. [11]
He offered the sketches to Murray, the princely publisher, who afterwards dealt so liberally with him, but the venture was declined in a civil note, written in that charming phraseology with which authors are familiar, but which they would in vain seek to imitate. [4]
He spoke English perfectly, save for an occasional harsh aspiration which I cannot imitate. [9]
Naturally, Clemens gave him the latest he had in stock, without realizing, perhaps, that he was recommending an individual practice which few would be likely to imitate. [5]
It runs to as much eccentricity in hair-dressing and ornament in the costume of the jingling belles of Nootka and the maidens of Nubia as in any court or coterie which we aspire to imitate. [4]

More example sentences with the word imitate in them

She quite agreed with him, praised and encouraged him, then she criticised his slovenly deportment, showed him with comical gravity how a warrior ought to stand and walk, called herself his drill-master, and was delighted at the zeal with which he strove to imitate her. [10]
When it comes to the manufactured article, one is surprised to find how well the metrical artisans have learned to imitate the real thing. [6]
Scherau would venture to sit down by the sculptor, and try to imitate his finished images. [10]
I will try to imitate you, and rise above the half-heartedness which is the bane of existence, and which makes the firm path of life a trembling, swaying bridge. [10]
Emerson saw fit to imitate the Egyptians by placing "The Sphinx" at the entrance of his temple of song. [6]
We still punish those who gain property by violence; those who get it by smartness and cleverness, we try to imitate, and sometimes we reward them with public office. [4]
Hence it is this side which is often coloured so as to imitate the objects on which these insects commonly rest. [1]
Then, when one surpasses the rest in external things, whatever name they may bear, no one hastens to imitate him. [10]
Birds imitate the songs of their parents, and sometimes of other birds; and parrots are notorious imitators of any sound which they often hear. [1]
It was a small, towerlike building close to the garden wall, whose single inner room was designed to imitate a rock cave. [10]
There is the skeleton figure representing Fox (who should have been called Goose), the poor creature who starved himself to death in trying to imitate the fast of forty days in the wilderness. [6]
Nor can his sincerity in any way be doubted, or his sympathy for those he would persuade to imitate his example be denied. [7]
We swarm with reviewers, though we have scarce original works sufficient for them to alight and prey upon, and we closely imitate all the worst tricks of the trade and of the craft in England. [4]
Meckel long ago remarked, that when the muscles of the arm depart from their proper type, they almost always imitate those of the leg; and so, conversely, with the muscles of the legs. [1]
He makes a passing reference to Thomas a Becket as "the old Cocke of Canturburie," who did crow in behalf of the see of Rome, and the "young cockerels of other sees did imitate his demeanour. [4]
But it warn't no use; he stormed right along, and said any man that pretended to be an Englishman and couldn't imitate the lingo no better than what he did was a fraud and a liar. [5]
But he had no envy of him, and he evinced no desire to imitate him. [4]
She whose intercession never remained unheard had yielded up, with an aching heart, her divine son, and she must imitate her. [10]
He ranked the Netherlander above Titian and the other great Italian artists, called him the worthy friend of gods and kings, and encouraged his pupil to imitate him. [10]
An ingenious scribbler might imitate it after a fashion, but Shakespeare himself could not counterfeit it. [5]
They imitate his metrical forms as a mimic copies the gait of the person he is representing. [6]
Here in Alexandria many imitate them. [10]
When he at last rose and looked at what he had done, he could not help smiling, and asking himself how it was possible to imitate, with such trivial materials, the noblest possessions of man: mind and soul. [10]
The world, she knew, would imitate them, but it should learn that if love had robbed the greatest man of his day of fame and sovereignty, that love had been worthy of the highest price. [10]
But Sally or Isabel would often imitate Miss Sadler behind her back, showing how well they understood her snobbishness. [9]
Hence Mr. Bates inferred that the butterflies which imitate the protected species have acquired their present marvellously deceptive appearance through variation and natural selection, in order to be mistaken for the protected kinds, and thus to escape being devoured. [1]
So it is in some instances when both are brightly-coloured, for they thus imitate protected species, or resemble surrounding objects such as flowers; or they give notice to their enemies that they are unpalatable. [1]
How can I, in order to live wisely, imitate Nature, when in her being and action I encounter so much that is contradictory to my human reason, which is a part of the divine? [10]
Whatsoever is perfect in its kind, in literature, is imperishable: nobody can imitate it successfully, nobody can hope to produce its fellow; it is perfect, it must and will stand alone: its immortality is secure. [5]
I used to imitate the people she disliked. [9]
You must not imitate the Egyptians, who, when they lose a friend, spend months in daily-repeated lamentations over him. [10]
To hear her imitate Miss Turner or Miss Hood or Dr. Moale is almost as much fun as going to the theatre. [9]
Animals, however, sometimes imitate each other's actions: thus two species of wolves, which had been reared by dogs, learned to bark, as does sometimes the jackal (16. [1]
And he could imitate anybody's hand so closely that it was enough to make a person laugh his head off to see it. [5]
I admire, but I certainly could not imitate her. [14]
Did not the holy expression of her eyes and the aspiration of her own soul show that she would understand him, approve his sacrifice, imitate it, and exchange earthly for heavenly love? [10]
I can't imitate him, and so I ain't a-going to try to; but he really done it pretty good. [5]
And those who had come for excitement, for the sensation of hearing a denunciation of a class they envied and therefore hated, and nevertheless strove to imitate, were themselves rebuked. [9]
There was no flower or leaf or fruit that she had seen that she could not imitate exactly in wax or paper. [4]
Rise, Psamtik, and endeavor to imitate yonder noble old man, (pointing to Croesus) by accustoming yourself to your fate. [10]
After the public duty, the public attitudinizing, after assisting at the artificial comedy and tragedy which imitate life under a mask, and suggest without satisfying, comes the actual experience. [4]
After giving the clerk orders about the work to be done, Alpatych, not trying to imitate the prince now, lifted the hat from his bald head and crossed himself three times. [2]
In regard to birds which live on the ground, every one admits that they are coloured so as to imitate the surrounding surface. [1]
As for him, Berthold Vorchtel, he would not spare himself, and if he expected the city to imitate him he would know how to answer for it. [10]
It has not been the custom of this court to imitate other courts; it has not been the custom of this court to take shelter behind the decisions of other courts, and we will not begin now. [5]
And since you are not a detective, and can't devote yourself to this most delicate problem, if there be any problem at all, I would suggest--I imitate your own rudeness--that you mind your own business. [11]

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