I thought how I had mimicked him, and what an ass I had been.
Yes, Mr. Hanlon," that silky voice mimicked meaningly, and venomously.
Some of them looked as if they would embrace him, and his face mimicked artless innocence, though he knew perfectly well that, in their opinion, he was only a little lower than an angel.
In him was a mimicked dignity, as of Adam; in her the womanliness of a miniature Eve.
In each of the three great divisions of the tropical world we find certain groups of butterflies serving as models, and being mimicked by butterflies belonging as a rule to quite different groups.
Though the Pharmacophagus Papilios are mimicked only by other Papilios among butterflies they may serve occasionally as models for certain of the larger day-flying moths.
Like the Acraeas the Planemas are principally mimicked by species of Pseudacraea and of Papilio.
Papilio polyxenus, for example, is mimicked not only by the unprotected P.
The case is made even more remarkable by the fact that both of the sexual forms of Planema macarista are mimicked by the Satyrine Elymnias phegea (Pl.
They form one of the rare instances of a Pharmacophagus Papilio being mimicked by a butterfly which does not belong to the Swallow-tail group.
It cannot, however, be said that it is definitely mimicked by any other species in this region.
Though the Pierine mimics are the most striking the Heliconines and Ithomiines are mimicked by members of other groups.
As a rule, where we find one species mimicking another, the mimicked species possesses some special means of defence against the enemies of both.
The mimetic species may prey upon some creature which is found commonly with, and is not eaten by, the mimicked species.
To the first law, also, they conform to a great extent, since everything tends to show that in tropical America and in Africa the ant and the spider, the one mimicked and the other mimicking, are always found together.
At all events, we verify this fact in a great number of cases, and we never find the spiders eating any but the mimicked species.
Enjoying on this account immunity from attack, they have all, in the process of time, been mimicked by species in other genera which have not the same immunity.
The species mimicked is Danais chrysippus, of which at least three varietal forms or local races are known.
Even the ladies interested themselves in the sanguinary and often unlikely stories, while the orators mimicked the attacks and combats between man and beast, raising their arms and speaking in thunderous tones.
And so we find a deceptive similarity between animals occurring in the same district, but not closely related, in which the mimicked form is unpalatable or has an odour repulsive to birds and lizards.
I had a still better means of testing both these and other insects that are mimicked in Nicaragua.
Amongst the beetles there is a family that is just as much mimicked as the Heliconii are amongst the butterflies.
In addition to being mimicked by other families of beetles, Calopteron is closely resembled by a species of moth (Pionia lycoides, Walker).
The phosphorescent species of Lampyridae, the fireflies, so numerous in tropical America, are equally distasteful, and are also much mimicked by other insects.
Again shemimicked the old lady's voice: "Nice men have one standard for the women they marry, and another (a very different standard!
Foot-passengers who went by offered her their umbrellas, others mimicked her, and called out too, "Konni!
The reason that the double fluting call of the cuckoo is notmimicked by other birds is that they can't; because that peculiar sound is not in their register.
It was as if he was not merely imitating a sound, but had seen a fowl leaving the nest and then cackling, and mimicked the whole proceeding, and had kept up the habit after the young were hatched.
Fleetfoot mimicked the reindeer's movements and the grunting sounds they made.
He had cracked nuts; he had climbed trees; he had mimicked the squirrels; he had scattered burrs in the rabbits' paths, and he had done all sorts of things.
Yes, ‘So we have,’” mimicked Marjorie as she hastily tore open the envelope and drew out the letter it contained.
He mimicked the piston, he mimicked the harp, he snapped his fingers over his head, and rolled his eyes and danced his steps, to the utter stupefaction of the tourists running in from all sides at the racket.
And she mimicked him, gleefully, speaking in a low whisper.
Again she mimicked him: "'We must try to forget it.
He mimicked the King so pertly yesterday morn that the King doomed him, and fear has so addled his weak wits that he believes himself to be his master.
He mimicked the King yesterday, and now the trick grows on him.
If the mimicked are left alone by birds because they have a reputation for unpalatability, or because they are able to sting, the mimickers survive--although they are palatable and stingless.
He mimicked the attitude as he stood on the hearth.
The flare from the great chimney place genially played over the huddled confusion of the room and the brown logs of the wall, where the gigantic shadows of the three men mimicked their every gesture with grotesque exaggeration.
The bishops wore their mitres, the knights pranced on spirited steeds, the castles rested on the backs of elephants,--even the pawns mimicked the private soldiers of an army.
Gonzaga was a fop whose capers they mimicked and whose wits they despised; whilst Valentina, though brave enough and high-spirited, remained a girl of no worldly and less military knowledge, whose orders it might be suicidal to carry out.
Your opinion is not asked,'" Volodka mimicked him.
