Example Sentences

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His rashness restored me to some sense of the farcical heroism which I had been aping.

From Anna St. Ives by Holcroft, Thomas

“I saw a baby’s mantle of that peculiar green, and it struck me that some farmer’s wife had been aping little Julia’s.”

From The Three Brides by Yonge, Charlotte Mary