When I begin to talk I repeat this name imitatively, and thinking of myself as others do. From Wordnik.com. [The Nature of Goodness] Reference
Nelatha mocked Si'Wren imitatively, as her eyes and mouth becoming like wide round circles, to match Si'Wren's expression, which in turn exactly resembled the little round-eyed mud face. From Wordnik.com. [Si'Wren of the Patriarchs] Reference
In the sphere of action, also, the child who is stimulated by the sight of his elder pounding with a hammer, sweeping with a broom, etc., reacts imitatively upon such stimulations, and thus acquires skill in action. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education] Reference
"I'm sorry," said Little Miss Grouch, imitatively. From Wordnik.com. [Little Miss Grouch A Narrative Based on the Log of Alexander Forsyth Smith's Maiden Transatlantic Voyage] Reference
Funny, however, if they here and there imitatively spread. From Wordnik.com. [One of Our Conquerors — Complete] Reference
Europe, where they are also imitatively performed, as in Italy. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on the Art of Dancing] Reference
They spoke His name tentatively, as an experiment, and imitatively. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts] Reference
To the clever technician who imitatively paints the flower as he knows it to be. From Wordnik.com. [The Enjoyment of Art] Reference
He acts imitatively, too; he has pleasures and pains; he shows sympathy for me, just as I do for him. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Mind] Reference
The old Wolf crouched a little but sniffed hard with swinging nose; the young Wolf imitatively did the same. From Wordnik.com. [Animal Heroes] Reference
The painter who copies his object imitatively, finding nothing, creating nothing, is an artisan, however skillful he may be. From Wordnik.com. [The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life] Reference
Humfrey and Diccon were ready to rush off to voyage that instant, and even little Ned cried imitatively in his imperfect language that he would be "a tailor.". From Wordnik.com. [Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland] Reference
The person is either going through motions quite blindly, perhaps purely imitatively, or else is in a state of excitement which is exhausting to mind and nerves. From Wordnik.com. [Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education] Reference
The opening stanza is a dedicatory address on English models to a lawyer friend and patron; it is pure English in language, stiff and imitatively "literary" in style. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Burns How To Know Him] Reference
But to take an idea that's genuinely (instead of imitatively) awful all the way to completion, you need something like heart, blind egoism and unselfconscious incompetence. From Wordnik.com. [Tucson Weekly] Reference
Peterkin pulled himself half-way up, only immediately to fall back. junior stood for an instant imitatively reaching up with his baby hands, then abandoning the attempt waddled off after a big butterfly. From Wordnik.com. [Angel Island] Reference
Richard not been too busy even to glance at her, he might have noticed, now and then, an involuntary sympathetic motion, imitatively responsive to one of his, invariably recurrent when he changed the position of the glowing iron. From Wordnik.com. [There & Back] Reference
Other themes denote objects which cannot be imitatively suggested by music: for instance, music cannot suggest a ring, and cannot suggest gold; yet each of these has a representative theme which pervades the score in all directions. From Wordnik.com. [The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring] Reference
He imitates what he sees some other creature do; or he imitates his own instinctive actions by setting up before him in his mind the memories of the earlier performance; or, yet again, after he has struck a fortunate combination, he repeats that imitatively. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Mind] Reference
The more unconscious processes that reflect imitatively the linguistic environment and that strike out intuitively oral and written vents for interests so intense that they must be told and shared, are what teach us how to command the resources of our mother tongue. From Wordnik.com. [Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene] Reference
There could be no contrivance or machinery in our host's drawing-room, as must be the case imitatively at the Egyptian Hall; none of the company could be conspiring to deceive, and more than all, that huge, heavy table rising up against the law of gravitation was enough to chase away all incredulity. From Wordnik.com. [My Life as an Author]
The designer of frostings who has a right feeling for his art will not emulate the sculptor and strive to model in the grand style; the sculptor who tries to reproduce imitatively the textures of lace or other fabrics and who exuberates in filigrees and fussinesses so far departs from his art as to rival the confectioner. From Wordnik.com. [The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life] Reference
Etruscans themselves, like the Japanese in our own time, did at first accept most imitatively the Hellenic culture; but they gradually remoulded it by their own effort into something new, growing and changing from age to age, until at last, in the Italian renaissance, they burst out with a wonderful and novel message to all the rest of dormant Europe. From Wordnik.com. [Science in Arcady] Reference
In the less educated classes, where self-control is not very habitual, and where interests beyond petty and personal ones are rare, the soft brows and tender lips of girlhood are too often puckered and hardened by mean anxieties, even where these do not affect the girls personally, but only imitatively, and as the daily interests of their station in life. From Wordnik.com. [We and the World, Part I A Book for Boys] Reference
And darned old thing! "insisted the witness, imitatively. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrong Twin] Reference
Although unlike the former it begins imitatively, once again the use of chordal writing is at the centre of Manchicourt’s expressive technique. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
A notion that there have been disasters aloft, and that coins have dropped here: that inhabitants of this earth found them or saw them fall, and then made coins imitatively: it may be that coins were showered here by something of a tutelary nature that undertook to advance us from the stage of barter to the use of a medium. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
But cackle imitatively all round. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 1, 1892] Reference
Then Maurice imitatively broke out. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Step-Mother] Reference
A mass of traditions of the past, of experiments, rude or more or less arranged, and transmitted imitatively by language, the great vehicle of all imitations. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference
"Monsieur Trevor," she repeated imitatively. From Wordnik.com. [The Rough Road] Reference
"Oh, Flossie!" said Miss Daisy imitatively, "don't pretend!. From Wordnik.com. [Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain] Reference
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