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Sentences ending with imitation

They cannot acquire the power of speech, and are wholly incapable of prolonged attention, but are much given to imitation. [1]
Nature herself seems readily to fall into imitation. [4]
Everything I said or did was mostly imitation. [11]
Yet Munich is not all imitation. [4]
Many envied him, many paid him the sincerest flattery, that of imitation. [4]
Again echoes clapped, in grim imitation. [13]
But if Tinsley had said the handwriting could not be mistaken for Adams's, it would have been equally unfortunate for Adams: for it then would have contradicted Keys, who says, "I looked at the writing and judged it the said Adams's or a good imitation. [7]
But if you compel me well, the whole thing seems to be a kind of imitation. [4]
He'd never been a bony fidy gentleman--just an imitation. [11]

Short sentences using imitation

Ponderous watch-chain of imitation gold. [5]
That's imitation, too. [4]

Sentences containing imitation two or more times

The interior of this court chapel is dazzling in appearance: the pillars are, I think, imitation of variegated marble; the sides are imitation of the same; the vaulting is covered with rich frescoes on gold ground. [4]
There is plenty that is artificial, vulgarly conventional, in his play, plenty of imitation of the rustic that shows it is imitation, but he is the natural man. [4]
The clever hoax is no better than the trick of imitation, that is, conscious imitation of another, which has unveracity to one's self at the bottom of it. [4]
Bofe of us is imitation _white_--dat's what we is--en pow'ful good imitation, too. [5]

More example sentences with the word imitation in them

Nick's imitation of Xavier, and his description of Benjy's terrors after the storm, were so perfect that I laughed quite as heartily; and Madame de St. Gre wiped her eyes and repeated continually, "Quel drole monsieur! [9]
He put the will carefully back in its place, and spread his mouth and swung his hat once, twice, three times around his head, in imitation of three rousing huzzahs, no sound issuing from his lips. [5]
Of a youth whose mind, like mine at that period, possessed some general capability, without perhaps a single prominent and marked talent, a proneness to imitation is sure to be the besetting sin. [6]
If I's imitation, what is you? [5]
Inside, the walls were stuccoed in imitation of stone,--first a dark brown square, then two light brown squares, then another dark brown square, and so on, to represent the accidental differences of shade always noticeable in the real stones of which walls are built. [6]
Across the paper was scrawled in pencil, without capital letters, misspelled, and without punctuation: "Unsoundly constructed because resembles an imitation of the French military code and from the Articles of War needlessly deviating. [2]
He saw there was no real knowledge of the relationship of Carnac and himself in Denzil's eyes; but he held out his hand with imitation courtesy, as though to say good-bye. [11]
Mandeville had gone too far, except in the opinion of Our Next Door, who declared that an imitation was just as good as an original, if you could not detect it. [4]
The "brag" appeared to be all taken out of him, and his airy manner only asserted itself now and then in a comical imitation of its old self. [5]
The voice was the voice of President North; the language was an excellent imitation of that used by Cicero and Julius Caesar. [4]
Its finest street, the Maximilian, built by the late king of that name, is of a novel and wholly modern style of architecture, not an imitation, though it may remind some of the new portions of Paris. [4]
This results from the fact that they are truer to the substance of things, to universal human nature, while the French seem to be in great part an imitation, having root neither in the soil of France nor Attica. [4]
And especially did the crafts built in imitation of something that had floated down from a previous generation come to quick disaster. [4]
The landlord and the clerks had smiles as wide as the open doors; the waiters exhibited in their eagerness a good imitation of unselfish service. [4]
The theory is that, fly-fishing being a high art, the fly must not be a tame imitation of nature, but an artistic suggestion of it. [4]
We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention, curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of which man boasts, may be found in an incipient, or even sometimes in a well-developed condition, in the lower animals. [1]
It was said that the money lavished upon one or two of the noble apartments would have built a State-house (though not at Albany), and that the fireplace in the great hall cost as much as an imitation mediaeval church. [4]
But Herbert said that the closer an imitation is to an original, the more unendurable it is. [4]
I have also taken a good deal of interest in Benjamin Franklin, before referred to, sometimes called B. F., or more frequently Frank, in imitation of that felicitous abbreviation, combining dignity and convenience, adopted by some of his betters. [6]
She was still sure that she had been the victim of a hallucination which, emerging from her sleep, had invaded the borders of wakefulness, and then had reproduced itself in a waking illusion--an imitation of its original existence. [11]
Opposite stands another successful imitation of the Grecian style of architecture,--a building with a Corinthian porch, also of white marble. [4]
This imitation of speech, taken together with general absence of fur and entire absence of tail, sufficiently indicates that this is a new kind of bear. [5]
I did not see it, although I suppose I could have done so for a franc to the beadle: but I saw a very good stone imitation of it; and his image and story fill the church. [4]
No one at Rhodes--and this is just what I prize in you--hated imitation more, yet what would using the Arachne on the pedestal for a model be except showing the world not how Hermon, but how Althea imagines the hapless transformed mortal? [10]
You have unwittingly revealed--oh, for the twentieth time, though I could not believe it, would not believe it!--that it is not me you love, but that foolish sham my father's imitation earldom; and you have broken my heart! [5]
You should not publish it in book form at all--for this reason: it is only an imitation of Verne--it is not a burlesque. [5]
It is, therefore, probable that the imitation of musical cries by articulate sounds may have given rise to words expressive of various complex emotions. [1]
The old imitation pomps, the fuss and feathers, have departed, and the royal trademark--that is about all that one could miss, I suppose. [5]
Then New Orleans piped up and said-- Yes, it's a first-rate imitation, that's a certainty; but it ain't the only one around that's first-rate. [5]
Grease-wood is a perfect --most perfect imitation in miniature of a live oak tree-barring the color of it. [5]
Even towards the passengers from Sydney, with their imitation English ways and little insular gossip, one could have only charity and the most kindly feeling. [4]
But it was only a pinchbeck thing, an imitation, a bauble, an empty show. [5]
One must do one's duty in any case," he said, in imitation of English bluffness, and took his leave. [11]
At the end of the broad, monotonous Ludwig Strasse, and yet not at the end, for the road runs straight on into the flat country between rows of slender trees, stands the Siegesthor, or Gate of Victory, an imitation of the Constantine arch at Rome. [4]
Oversized sleeve buttons of imitation gold, the copper base showing through. [5]
He was a novelty--an imitation dude. [5]
Now there is nothing I am quite so sensitive about as a mocking imitation of my drawling infirmity of speech. [5]
But it is not in tricks of imitation that this organ is so wonderful: it is its power of revealing, by all its compass, the inmost part of any musical composition. [4]
It is a noble characteristic and is worthy of imitation of any age. [5]
If this is no worship, it is a good imitation of it. [5]
Baton Rouge has no patent on imitation castles, however, and no monopoly of them. [5]
It seems, therefore, necessary that there should be an organized effort to deal with this pronunciation, and clubs will no doubt be formed all over the country, in imitation of the one mentioned, until the broad a will become as common as flies in summer. [4]
The royal palace, near by, is a huddle of buildings and courts, that I think nobody can describe or understand, built at different times and in imitation of many styles. [4]
The rest was mere imitation of their first impulses. [11]
The parents of many animals, trusting to the principle of imitation in their young, and more especially to their instinctive or inherited tendencies, may be said to educate them. [1]
The Propylaeum, another magnificent gateway, thrown across the handsome Brienner Strasse, beyond the Glyptothek, is an imitation of that on the Acropolis at Athens. [4]
Charley Steele was lying under the waters of the great river, his bones rotting there for a year, yet here was his voice coming out of the night, in response to his own grotesque imitation of the dead man. [11]
I do not know how any virtue whatever is possible over an imitation gas-log. [4]
On the Max Joseph Platz, which has a bronze statue of King Max, a seated figure, and some elaborate bas-reliefs, is another front of the palace, the Konigsbau, an imitation, not fully carried out, of the Pitti Palace, at Florence. [4]
It disarmed criticism, it mollified spite, to see him so enjoy his imitation languors, and arts, and airs, and his studied daintinesses of gesture and misbegotten refinements. [5]
Some think it is in humble imitation of Johnson,--some that it is for the sake of the stately sound only. [6]
Already, even, the insolence of their language to the people of the North is a close imitation of the style which those proud and arrogant Asiatics affected toward all the nations of Europe. [6]
And Mr. Swain, in imitation of the high example set by Mr. Bordley, had buildings put up for wheels and the looms, and in due time kept his own sheep. [9]
Mr. Hale's church in Boston, though the imitation of choir-voices responding to the organ was very effective. [4]
A string of imitation pearls gleams against her ruddy skin. [9]
But Mr. Lincoln's imitation of the Colonel's drawl brought him a pang like homesickness. [9]
He began an imitation of his old restlessness, and made essay again to pull the strings of his affairs. [11]
It's the worst imitation I ever heard. [5]
I knew that, if I put up a complete stuffed man, the bird would detect the imitation at once: the perfection of the thing would show him that it was a trick. [4]
He hissed through his teeth, in unconscious imitation of a popular favorite in melodrama, "Him shall she never wed! [5]
It came to him, the last refrain, sung loudly to the laughter of the crowd, in imitation of his own voice as it used to be --it had been a different voice during this past year. [11]
How could he help admiring Byron and falling into more or less unconscious imitation of his moods if not of his special affectations? [6]
The singer was flatting, as usual, the five notes that follow the first two in the chorus, when the Reverend interrupted her with this word, in a voice which was an exact imitation of Alonzo's, with just the faintest flavor of impatience added: "Sweetheart? [5]
You see how far imitation of the classic and Italian is carried here in Munich; so, as I said, the buildings need the southern sunlight. [4]
With mankind, selfishness, experience, and imitation, probably add, as Mr. Bain has shewn, to the power of sympathy; for we are led by the hope of receiving good in return to perform acts of sympathetic kindness to others; and sympathy is much strengthened by habit. [1]
Not that he did not join in the hilarity, but it seemed only a poor imitation of pleasure. [4]
A gaunt, shackly country lout six feet high, in battered gray slouched hat with wide brim, and old resin-colored breeches, had on a hideous brand-new woolen coat which was imitation tiger skin wavy broad stripes of dazzling yellow and deep brown. [5]
Let this imitation Cleopatra use the Cleopatra's arts; this mellow Romeo (sometime an Irish landlord) vow to this coy Juliet; this Helen of Troy-- Of all who walked these decks, mantled and wigged in characters not their own, Mrs. Falchion was the handsomest, most convincing. [11]
Their capitals were carved in imitation of the lotus-flower, and these, the shafts of the columns, the walls of this huge hall, and indeed every niche and corner that met the eye were covered with brilliant colors and hieroglyphics. [10]
The one had been distant, splendid, brooding (so she glorified him); the other was an impressionist imitation, with dash, form, poetry, and colour. [11]
Yellow-greens, like the beech boughs over the old wall, and gentle blue-greens, like the turf; and the waters of the lake were blue and white in imitation of the cloud-flecked sky. [9]
The hideous stuffy bed curtains and the more hideous imitation marble mantel were the two objects that held her glance. [9]
We may not be able to explain why servile imitation of nature degrades art and degrades woman, but both deteriorate without an ideal so high that there is no earthly model for it. [4]
He wrote rather an uncomplimentary note in Every Saturday concerning the poem and its authorship, characterizing it as a feeble imitation of Bret Harte's "Heathen Chinee. [5]
The imitation is always a dreary failure. [4]
In each we aim at the expression of the best that is in us, not at imitation or ostentation. [4]
Her costume is a not wholly ineffective imitation of those bought at a great price at certain metropolitan establishments. [9]
One--a "crown bearer"--had a face streaming with blood, from the crown of thorns which he had vowed to wear day and night in memory and imitation of the Redeemer's sufferings, and which on this great occasion he pressed hard into the flesh with ostentatious martyrdom. [10]
When Bret Harte's "Heathen Chinee" devastated the country, and was so widely parodied, an imitation of it entitled, "Three Aces," and signed "Carl Byng," was printed in the Express. [5]

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