The tiger glared with glass eyes from amidst artificial reeds and herbage, as from his native jungle; the grisly white bear peered from a mimic iceberg.
I took down one of the coloured lamps from the mimic tree round which the huge anaconda coiled its spires, and placed it as I was told.
The boys had already learned many military tactics and they thoroughly enjoyed this mimic warfare, but the Corsican lad was much too clever for his adversaries.
They had fought mimic battles, and Washington always commanded one side.
He could mimic every one who called at the office, and in addition he knew the different cockney voices of all the rabble of the London streets.
By the next day the snow had ceased falling, and the open squares of the city presented the finest mimic battle-fields that could be imagined.
The air was now cool almost to chilliness, and for some days the weather remained unsettled, and the sky overcast with clouds, while the lake presented a leaden hue, crested with white mimic waves.
The light curling mist hung in fleecy volumes upon the river, like a flock of sheep at rest--the tinkling sound of the heavy dew-drops fell in mimicshowers upon the stream.
The flute-like call was thrice repeated, and then a low response to the challenge issued from a mimic grotto, curiously roofed with overhanging vines.
Maurienne hastily cast away his mimic fetters, and counselling his lovely charge to remain as close as possible beneath the shadow of the trees, stationed a small guard to defend them, and hastened back to the assistance of his sovereign.
The carpenters displaced the priests, and instead of the sound of matins and vespers, the walls echoed with the noise of workmen's hammers, preparing a false floor for the mimic purgatory.
And the method they are said to have followed was to train their men for some months in mimic warfare, so as to accustom them to discipline and obedience, after which they employed them with complete confidence on actual service.
Now, this is related to show how, in the opinion of Xenophon, the chase is a mimic representation of war, and therefore to be esteemed by the great as useful and honourable.
To mimic the mincing pronunciation of the "Litvok" affords the "Pullack" a sense of superiority almost equalling that possessed by the English Jew, whose mispronunciation of the Holy Tongue is his title to rank far above all foreign varieties.
Esther could no longer bend her eye on the mimic tragedy; her eyes rested pityingly upon Addie's face, and Leonard's eyes rested admiringly upon Esther's.
In those bright eyes what more than mimic fire Benignly shines, and kindles gay desire!
He is no mere echo of the rhythms of this poet, or mimic of that other's attitude and outlook.
To this is joined a further sensation in the mimic muscles surrounding the ear.
Especially with the emotions we can perceive this affective process objectively in the movements of the mimic muscles of the face, and when the emotions are very strong in the other muscles of the body.
These so-called mimic and pantomimic "expression movements" are always combined with characteristic changes of the movements of the heart and lungs.
The bosom of the silent stream With mimic stars is dotted free; The waves reflect the double gleam, The tall woods lighten in the beam, Through darkness shining cheerily!
Say, St John, who alone peruse With candid eye the mimic Muse, What schemes of politics, or laws, In Gallic lands the patriot draws!
Of stature scarce a span, Mimic the actions of a real man?
Here, where the mimic eagle glared in gold A midnight vigil holds the swarthy bat!
But see, amid the mimic rout A crawling shape intrude!
And love ne'er dies but when some hand Too careless of their mimic strife, Slow cleaves its tendrils from their hold, And hurls them down bereft of life.
The youth once loved Nature after this somewhat gross and material fashion, for the berries she gave him, the flowers she wove in his hair, and the brooks that drove his mimic mills.
With living and various colours they mimic the rainbow, not mimic indeed, but rather excel, for the sun when it is reflected in the clouds makes a rainbow: these two shine without sun, glitter without cloud.
I might mimic a passion that I do not feel, but I cannot mimic one that burns me like fire.
As for old Mrs Chiley, who had so many funny little ways, and whom the mimic executed to perfection, she also was quite calm on the subject.
They will go out in their caps and talk to the young men, you know, in a night that is enough to give any one their death," the mimic added, with a feeble exercise of her gift which it was sad to see.
Not quite altogether, because there were moments of supreme temptation which the mimic could not resist; but as a general rule Lucilla was the only woman in Carlingford who escaped the universal critic.
To be sure, the mimic made Miss Brown's eyebrows, and spoke in her voice, so that even Lucilla found it a little difficult to keep her gravity.
To mimic a man who has my position, my reputation, my very existence in his hands!
So wagged the mimic world with Nance as its most attractive figure.
Nay, there was no romance there, for while Booth could make the most exquisite stage love to the actress, he never carried that love beyond the mimic world.
A boat might float, and make mimic voyages, on this artificial lake.
The curtain, inmimic drama, is usually rung down at the church door after the early or late wooing and marriage; but in Virginia in the eighteenth century this was only the first in a drama of five or more acts.
The court "at home" across the seas influenced the mimic court at Williamsburg.
The Mimic Court at Williamsburg was exerting all its powers to please, but the patriots were not to be turned aside.
It is more exciting to read of a tournament in Malory than to see a mimic one on the stage.
Show-rooms and mimic pillars Flaunting out of their gaudy vestibules Bosoms and posturing thighs.
Napoleon spent the day in revisiting the battle-field of Marengo, where he gave the Empress a mimic representation of the battle he had won five years before.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mimic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
