There was, however, less of assumption in his lowliness than in his loftiness; his was never "a pride that aped humility.
Karl, like other Germans of the sentimental period, aped the French poets; but when a German is sentimental, the mush-pots boil over.
To go ten miles north or south was to find yourself in a new world; you could scarcely understand the mush-talk of the peasants, whereas the various Liliputian courts chattered in mongrel French, aped from Versailles.
The submarine was a metal fish made with human hands; the airplane aped the birds.
The moving figures of Snap and Miko were aped by the grotesque, misshapen shadows of them on the walls.
The strange ship which had caused the destruction of the Stellar, was a combination fish and bird--which merely aped nature a bit further, as anyone who had ever traversed tropical waters would have instantly recognized.
It was her husband now who played the rôle of nurse, tending her little wants with an honest care that at least aped the services of love.
Even in the villages, where the solemn and immemorial repose of giant chestnuts aped security, the tossing of a silver birch against their mass, impatient in the littlest wind, brought warning.
An Alton man of lineage high Was aped by a rival in days gone by.
There was no vestige of shame in them, nor any idea, of course, that they aped a monstrous reality.
Montenegro and the blue Adriatic melted into the October haze along that depressing Embankment that aped a river bank, and sentences from the letter flashed before my eyes and stung me.
Now came the women servants, resplendent in their cheap finery, and with airs and graces aped from their betters.
She was by no means attractive, and in her dress she aped somewhat the man.
The new nobles rapidly drew aloof from the residuum of the plebs, and, in the true parvenu spirit, aped and outdid the arrogance of the old patricians.
He aped the defence of Scipio, and retired not only safe, but with a dignity so well studied that but for his antecedents it might have seemed sincere.
The man who apedthem might be pronounced an impostor or a traitor; the men he aped belonged almost to the distant world of the half-divine.
It was as though the youngest of the nations aped the legendary traditions of the oldest.
Yet every year, especially in the autumn and spring, behind that Chinese wall was a round of entertainments less costly than the crushes of the critic circle, but stamped with quiet elegance aped in vain by the non-elect.
The nobility aped the Princes, and the citizens in the residence cities aped the nobility.
Secretly she disliked James, and even at times broke out into petulant diatribes against her husband's patron; but all the time she aped the youth of her early years, and tried to hide the plain present by means of paint.
Montenegro and the blue Adriatic melted into the October haze along that depressing Embankment that aped a riverbank, and sentences from the letter flashed before my eyes and stung me.
If the kings of Rome aped Capitoline Jove, their predecessors the kings of Alba probably laid themselves out to mimic the great Latian Jupiter, who had his seat above the city on the summit of the Alban Mountain.
And it was natural to suppose that the more closely the mock marriage of the leaf-clad or flower-decked mummers aped the real marriage of the woodland sprites, the more effective would be the charm.
The old Alban dynasty of the Silvii or Woods, with their crown of oak leaves, apparently aped the style and emulated the powers of Latian Jupiter, who dwelt on the top of the Alban Mount.
Men indeed, existed in his days, very different in hardihood of frame and personal strength from the silken sybarites, enervated by constant riot and dissipation, whoaped the deeds of arms of their grandfathers in the time of James the First.
The girls aped him behind his back, and Igraine, with some ingratitude to science, made Lilith empty the ruby-coloured physic out of the window.
At the end thereof the errant from Wales was lying impotent and bloody in his tent, and the name of Amoret aped the ineffectual moon.
Thereupon the sparrow clapped his wings and said, "I will do even as the eagle hath done;" and he conceited himself and aped a greater than he.
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