Let us therefore acknowledge the craft of the Devil, who mimics certain things of those that be divine, in order that he may confound and judge us by the faith of his own followers.
The Devil,' says Tertullian, 'whose business it is to pervert the truth, mimics the exact circumstances of the Divine Sacraments in the mysteries of idols.
England casts off her kings; France mimics England: This realm I hoped was safe!
This easy method mimics decomposition on the forest floor.
Sheet composting mimics this system while saving a great deal of effort.
Sometimes it divides in the middle, like an hour-glass, and again mimics a fir-tree in caricature; but he who would keep track of the acrobatic capers of the tupelo would have his hands full.
Nor is it perhaps without reason that the author of precepts for dancers and mimics is named Kricacvas: kricacvas means, as we already know, he who possesses a lean horse, or simply the lean horse.
Mimics draw humour out of Nature's fault, With personal defects their mirth adorn, And bang misfortunes out to public scorn.
In each of the great islands of the Austro-Malayan region there is a distinct species of Tropidorhynchus, and there is always along with it an oriole that exactly mimics it.
Mr. Trimen states that the male Danais chrysippus is sometimes deceived by the female Diadema bolina which mimics that species.
It is easy to understand the profit that these mimics derive from their mimicry.
Occasionally the female mimics two other species, i.
I cannot tell you the joy I feel at the disappointment of the French: pitiful mimics of Spartan and Roman virtue, without a grain of it in their whole character.
He sounds the magic music of the air, he mimics the monotonous splashing of the waves, or barks like a dog and crows like a cock.
Gervinus has justly remarked that Shakespeare here acts very much as his Patroclus does when he mimics Agamemnon's loftiness and Nestor's weakness, for Achilles' delectation (Act i.
It so closely mimics a broken branch during the day that it is seldom seen, though it is fairly common.
It mimics clearly all bush noises, the chopping of trees, sawing of logs, barking of dogs, clucking of hens, the singing of native birds.
How he was to be found, neither the master nor his still angrier and more impatient mimics could ever tell us.
And it is needful to distinguish the fervid and strong spirits with whom the revival began from the mimics of our later day.
It is not that the scholar mimics in writing the phrases he has read, but that he can neither think, feel, nor express himself as he might have done, had his mental companionship been of a lower order.
For them Art mimics life as crudely as a company of strolling players at a country fair mimics the doings of the great.
In South America there are, as we have already said, many mimics of the immune Ithomiinae (or as Bates called them Heliconidae).
The last note I have selected from Burchell's manuscript refers to one of the chief mimics of the highly protected Lycid beetles.
Some of the chief mimics of ants are the active little hunting spiders belonging to the family Attidae.
When both sexes mimic, it is very common in butterflies and is also known in moths, for the females to be better and often far better mimics than the males.
An example is afforded by the Oriental Nymphaline, Cethosia, in which the males of some species are rough mimics of the brown Danaines.
Even the still more remarkable cases of protective mimicry, in which one animal so closely mimics another as to derive all the benefits that accrue to its protector, are made clear.
Where a Papilio like merope mimics a brown species like Danais niavius, we have a still greater change in colour, but not in structural pattern.
Panopoea hirta) mimics a normally dark one of quite a different section.
Mr. Wallace thinks that the bird-eater mimics the insect-eater, so as to deceive the birds, which are not afraid of the latter.
When an edible butterfly mimics an inedible or noxious one, as is frequently the case in the tropics, the mimicker is no doubt the gainer.
But he cannot flute, and so never mimics the blackbird's song, although he can and does, as we have seen, imitate its chuckling cry.
One may say that they are accomplished mimics but prefer mimicking their own to other species.
He is a true mocking-bird because he belongs to the genus Mimus, a branch of the thrush family, and not because he mocks or mimics the songs of other species, like others of his kindred.
It is the more necessary to do this because it was Darwin's theory of the origin of species which impressed upon the modern mind the idea that Nature mimics purpose, having none.
In no less than three of my polymorphic species of Papilio, one of the female forms mimics the Polydorus group, which, like the Æneas group in America, seems to have some special protection.
In the much more powerful Papilio, Pieris, and Diadema it is generally the female only that mimics Danaida.
Both insects run along the trunks of trees, and whereas Tricondylas are very plentiful, the insect that mimics it is, as in all other cases, very rare.
Species of Heliconia mimic Mechanitis, and every species of Napeogenes mimics some other Heliconideous butterfly.
The first is a very interesting case, because the male and female differ considerably, and each mimics the corresponding sex of the Euploea.
Phacellocera batesii, mimics one of the Anthribidæ, 94.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mimics" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
