...In most cases he imitates the best ratherthan the worst...
Booker T. Washington 「The Negro in the South」
...Their notes are not like those of the cuckooclock, which exactly imitates the voice of the EuropeanCuckoo, but a series of cuck-cuck-cucks and cow-cowsrepeated a varying number of times...
Frank M. Chapman 「What Bird is That?」
...In Myrza, nature imitates the artificial so perfectly that the littlecreature looks as if she had stepped out of a toy-shop...
Theophile Gautier F. C. de Sumichrast 「My Private Menagerie」
...In open country the jungleowlet and the dusky-horned owl call at intervals, and the Indiannightjar (Caprimulgus asiaticus) imitates the sound of a stoneskimming over ice...
Douglas Dewar 「A Bird Calendar for Northern India」
...It is called Botaurus, because it imitates boatum tauri, the bellowingof a bull...
Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」
...The hunter often imitates this with success, using either his own voice, or a “call,” made out of a cane-joint...
Mayne Reid 「The Hunters' Feast」
...This,to me, imitates the real sound more accurately thanany other attempt...
William J. Long 「Ways of Wood Folk」
...One dance imitates the swimmingmovements of the large lizard (Varanus), another is an imitation of the movements of a crab, another imitates those of a pigeon,and another those of a pelican...
Robert W. Williamson 「The Mafulu」
...In short, he imitates...
Robert Marett 「Anthropology」
...Nature imitates her imitator...
Ernest Giles 「Australia Twice Traversed, The Romance of Exploration」
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