Imitated

Examples

• He gave me a lesson: I diligently imitated. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He imitated the action of a man's being impelled forward by the butt-ends of muskets. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Here Mr. Muzzle, who had a great notion of his eloquence, in which he imitated his master, paused for a reply. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The institution soon manifested its utility; was imitated by other towns and in other provinces. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• He imitated it, evidently from the direction of a letter, and asked me what it meant. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I had had no intercourse with the world at that time, and I imitated none of its many inhabitants who act in this manner. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Such a character of God, if not ridiculed by our young men, is likely to be imitated by them. Plato. The Republic.
• It was a song that imitated the measure of beating upon iron, and was a mere lyrical excuse for the introduction of Old Clem's respected name. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• And so saying he imitated the solemn and stately deportment of a friar, and departed to execute his mission. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• But the fine example is not readily imitated when industrial forces fight against it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Traddles imitated me in the first particular, but did not consider himself a sufficiently old friend to venture on the second. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• It is clear that the working of the key which starts and stops the current in this line will be imitated by the motion and the resulting clicks of the sounder. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• This resolution perhaps may appear very bold and dangerous, and I am confident would not be imitated by any prince in Europe on the like occasion. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• They may also deem them fit to be imitated, should any of them find themselves in similar circumstances. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• In 1847 Prof. Silliman imitated mother-of-pearl by electro-plating process. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

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