Yet the world is really growing too enlightened for these old mimicries of single combat.
"Ernest Maltravers, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
And there seemed to resound in her mind echoes of Captain Ross's voice at the Honeycomb-or were they echoes of Mrs. Newton's mimicries of Captain Ross?
"The Disturbing Charm"
Berta Ruck
Sometimes the cloud appeared to break from its solid mass, and, by the lightning, to assume quaint and vast mimicries of human or of monster shapes, striding across the gloom, hurtling one upon the other, and vanishing swiftly into the turbulent abyss of shade; so that, to the eyes and fancies of the affrighted wanderers, the unsubstantial vapors were as the bodily forms of gigantic foes-the agents of terror and of death.
"The Last Days of Pompeii"
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton