It is indeed neither science nor religion; it lives by mimicking one or other or both.
Gyp could detect Fiorsen subtly mimicking that drawl; and her ears began to burn.
He talked at a great rate now, slying nicknaming the waiters andmimicking the people around--happy thrusts that made her smile but shiver a little, lest they should be heard or seen.
He had a piping voice absurd for his bulk and the two lads amused themselves with mimicking him as the boat pulled in the direction of the sloop.
Captain Stede Bonnet enjoyed the tableau and several of his wicked sailors were mimicking the pompous strut of Mr. Peter Arbuthnot Forbes.
Similarly by mimicking the growth of crops, they hope to insure a good harvest.
Then one of the girls steps forward, and mimicking a drunken man, flings herself on the ground, rolls on the grass, and feigns to go fast asleep.
Either in the noonday swelter or in the torchlit darkness it ought to be easy to pass from aping, mimicking and burlesquing Praetorians to personating and counterfeiting Praetorians.
And suitors," I put in, mimicking her tone when she bantered me about Marcia.
Instances of spiders mimicking ants are very numerous, and in many cases the resemblance is so close as to, at first sight, deceive a trained naturalist.
Instances of this rule are exceedingly numerous; indeed, Wallace says that specially protected forms are always mimicked; still we have nothing mimicking our Gasteracanthidæ.
Belt considers that the advantages gained by ant-mimicking Central American spiders lies entirely on the side of protection.
While among beetles and butterflies we most commonly find mimicry of one species by another within the same order, we have no instance of a spider mimicking another spider.
As a rule, where we find one speciesmimicking another, the mimicked species possesses some special means of defence against the enemies of both.
He tried to imitate these sounds, and finding his mimicking cries useful as signs of the objects from which they proceeded, he followed up the idea and elaborated language.
The young of Mimus patagonicus sits close and motionless, with closed eyes, mimicking death.
Virginie, mimicking her voice with a start of her old playfulness; ‘don’t I really?
Eloise, mimicking him, which made him flush again and then look at her admiringly.
Thus most individuals are white on the belly, mimicking the color of the sky to the enemy which pursues them from below.
The viceroy is not distasteful to birds, but by its extraordinary simulation or mimicking of the monarch it is not distinguished from it and so is not molested.
The mimicking devils had their lesson when he killed their champion without a scratch.
Jack, mimicking his snuffling voice; "then shtay vere you are, and be cursed to you.
Their Power of mimicking all the best Feelings, Love, Independence, etc.
The arrested Gentiles went to police headquarters singing an anti-Semitic refrain and mimicking the frightened cry of Jewish women.
Let us play school," he pleaded fawningly, in burlesque Russian, mimicking the accent of the Czech who taught Latin at the Miroslav gymnasium.
Christians stood on the sidewalks, jeering and mimicking their fright and making jokes.
He was perpetually mimicking somebody or chuckling and his speech was full of gaps, many of his sentences being rendered in dumb show.
But he swallowed his pride and stumbled on and on, mimicking his friends and remaining generally unnoticed.
She repeated the story, mimicking in inimitable fashion the gestures and broken English of Prince Vivalanti's steward.
The youngster turned to his following, mimicking her.
He rode away with a clamoring chorus behind him and he heard one brazen youngster boldly mimicking his manner of asking if the roads were good.
Maáyu siya nga musúbay sa sinultian sa maistru, He is good in mimicking the way the teacher speaks.
Nagsuudsúud ang bátà sa nagdiskursu, The child is mimicking the man delivering a speech.
While absorbed in his work, his companions came from the screen in haste, skipping round him and mimicking all his actions and grunting in unison with him, while making the sand-ridge to quiver with intensity of tread.
Such communicable trees should stand together, commenting on passing events, booming in unison with the cyclone, and mimicking the tenderest tones of the idlest wind.
