Armand tried to emulate Lord Tony's manner, and to borrow something of Percy's calm impudence.
Mathematical method has been the envy of philosophers, perplexed and encumbered as they are with the whole mystery of existence, and they have attempted at times to emulate mathematical cogency.
He got on much better when walking on the even, but wisely made no attempt to emulate the indefatigable pedestrian powers of his son, who would frequently stride on until he was an hour ahead of his companions.
A second symphony quickly following the first, which had shown any attempt to emulate that great work on its own ground, must of necessity have been doomed to result in artistic failure.
Walloper," commented Tex, immediately resolving to emulate that fish in the morning.
What, to emulate the boat of Charon disemboguing its crew of criminals, flung in a murky mass of shade across the pallid concave and bleak blast of light that blows it on us?
The song is little more than a catalogue of names of the Highland clans under their distinctive peculiarities, and an exhortation to them to remember and to emulate the actions of their forefathers.
We cannot all command the success, just as we do not all enjoy the intellectual powers, of a Herschel; but we can emulate the industry and perseverance of the astronomer, we can copy the devoted affection and self-denial of his sister.
Without doubt he was moved to emulate the simple grandeur of that poem, for he often repeated it in those days, and somewhat later we find it copied into his notebook in full.
Orion decided to emulate Franklin, and for a time he took only a biscuit and a glass of water at a meal, foreseeing the day when he should electrify the world with his eloquence.
Though I am in no way accountable to you for my actions, I will not emulate your want of courtesy, but will tell you frankly why you find me here.
His spirits revived, and, once more, he felt that he had it in him to emulate his chief.
In this city of peace, amidst the riches of the East, the Abbassides soon disdained the abstinence and frugality of the first caliphs, and aspired to emulate the magnificence of the Persian kings.
The desire grows more complex and general as the years go on, and from reproduction of definite acts, the life tries to emulate the spirit and achievements of its hero, and later to be in some harmony, at least, with public opinion.
At first, definite acts focused the most of his interest and aroused imitation, now, interest begins to attach itself to the actor as well, and the child not only desires to imitate the deed but also to emulate the doer.
Grant that woman, being feminine, cannot emulate man in being masculine--and does not want to.
We do not sadly measure the cabbage-stalk by the corn-stalk, and praise the corn for getting ahead of the cabbage--nor incite the cabbage toemulate the corn.
But in getting about the country they do not so much as begin to emulate him.
It may be said at once that the attempts of working-women here and there to emulatewomen of the idle classes are of no use to themselves and reflect small credit on those they imitate.
The land was torn with faction, and Liberals and Royalists seemed to emulate each other in contributing to its ruin.
In view of Romer's determination to emulate the worst bandit I ever wrote about I was tremendously glad to think of him as a cowboy.
It was not a very long shot, and I, scorning to do less than Copple, tried to emulate him, and aimed at the neck of the gobbler.
Shakespeare, whose works he loved and revered with passionate ardor, and to emulatewhom was perhaps the greatest ambition of his life.
You admire and emulate the life of wretched women.
And since this was the aim that the Cynics pursued daily, we need not emulate them any more than the others, but we are to think them miserable beings and altogether foolish.
Now since this was the conduct of Antiochus, I have no right to be angry with his descendants when they emulate their founder or him who gave his name to the city.
Let us dwell upon this last mournful pageant only sufficiently far as to imitate the virtues, and emulate the firmness and resignation with which she met her doom.
Perhaps they think that the more often they disappoint the more they emulate the "stars" in the musical world.
I do not wish to disparage my own "side" by the foregoing remarks, not caring in any way to emulate Balaam.
There may be some who may want, like I did, to emulate the deeds of the strong men whom every age supplies; to them I would say, give yourself up to your favourite exercise as you would to music if you would excel in it.
Who would not emulate them in the creation of children such as theirs, which have preserved their memory and given them everlasting glory?
Let me hope that the tuition they have received here will not be thrown away upon them, and that they may all emulate those bright examples to be found in English history and of which every naval officer must be proud.
Many of the students in the old building have worthily distinguished themselves, and it behoves those who partake of the greater advantages of the new institution to emulate the noble examples which have been set by their predecessors.
I can assure you my heartfelt wish is that my two sons may learn to emulate and follow the bright example of their revered grandfather.
Fortify your minds, proceed carefully, and strive mightily to emulate Christ, who carries your banners, as he usually does, and call upon him.
He wished to emulate God, but he did not do this the way a wise man would.
The beauty of Haydon was just that he was new, shiningly new, and if he hinted that we might perhaps in some happy future emulate his big bravery there was nothing so impossible about it.
She dropped as elegantly out as she had gymnastically floated in, and "ces dames" must much have wished they could emulate her art.
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