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Rows of lighted candles, also, when the air is calm, are fixed outside the windows or along the sides of the streets. In St. Just, and other mining parishes, the young miners, mimicking their fathers' employments, bore rows of holes in the rocks, load them with gunpowder, and explode them in rapid succession by trains of the same substance.
"Losh! the body's cracked," said Mungo Boyd, astounded at this nicety. "I was to meet her to-night; does she know I'm here?" "I rapped at her door mysel' to mak' sure she did." "And what said she?" "She tauld me to gae awa'. I said it was you, and she said it didna maitter." "Didna maitter!" repeated the Chamberlain, viciously, mimicking the eastland accent. "What ails her?"
Arrah! Arrah!" "Go on! Go on! Go on!" He would walk across the Sok on Fridays, and hear shrieks and peals of laughter, and see grinning faces with gleaming white teeth turned in his direction, and he would know that the story-tellers were mimicking his voice and the jugglers imitating his gestures. His prosperity counted for nothing against the open brand of God's displeasure.
This story was frequently afterward told by Glover, with rich dramatic effect, repeating and exaggerating the conversation, and mimicking in ludicrous style, the embarrassment, surprise, and subsequent indignation of Goldsmith. It is a trite saying that a wheel cannot run in two ruts; nor a man keep two opposite sets of intimates.
"I hope it is very dry champagne," said she, "the taste for sweet champagne is quite awfully shocking." The young woman knew no more about dry and sweet champagne than of the wine of Ulysses, except that she drank both with equal satisfaction, but she was mimicking a Secretary of the British Legation who had provided her with supper at her last evening party.
The invitation was accepted the day had arrived, the guests were momentarily expected, and Carrie, before the long mirror, was admiring herself, alternately frowning upon John Jr., who was mimicking her "airs," and scolding Anna for fretting because 'Lena could not be induced to join them. Finding that her niece was resolved not to appear, Mrs.
She performed the duty assigned to her, and then hastened to the dormitory, whither Lillian and Claudia had preceded her. The latter was standing on a chair, mimicking Miss Dorothea, and haranguing her sole auditor, in a nasal twang, which she contrived to force from her beautiful, curling lips.
"Well?" she said, inquiringly. "Well?" he repeated, mimicking her tone. "What is the meaning of all this?" Stanford laughed carelessly, and drew her hand within his arm. "It means, my dear, that pretty sister of yours is a goose! I paid her a compliment, and she blushed after it, at sight of you, as if I had been talking love to her. Come, let us have a walk before dinner."
Cleverness is a certain knack or aptitude at doing certain things, which depend more on a particular adroitness and off-hand readiness than on force or perseverance, such as making puns, making epigrams, making extempore verses, mimicking the company, mimicking a style, etc.
They laughed beforehand, as they looked at the zinc-worker, who steadied himself on his legs as he put on his most vulgar air. Mimicking the hoarse voice of an old woman, he sang: "When out of bed each morn I hop, I'm always precious queer; I send him for a little drop To the drinking-ken that's near.
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