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But she somehow progressed from entertaining her friends with mimicries to playing to paying houses.

From Time Magazine Archive

In private, her character is less appalling, though she is noted for her impudent mimicries of Moran & Mack, Maurice Chevalier, Fanny Brice, Eddie Cantor, Groucho Marx.

From Time Magazine Archive

The little mimicries of Albert Jekyl, as he described Mrs. Ricketts, the few depreciatory remarks of Lady Hester concerning her, would have outweighed her worth had her character been a cornucopia of goodness.

From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Lever, Charles James

With mimicries of dance she wakes The lordly gallery’s silent floor, And climbing up on tiptoe, makes The old-world mirror smile once more.

From Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn by Hearn, Lafcadio

For God's sake let us all be ourselves, and not ghastly mimicries of our ancestors, or our neighbours.

From Prose Fancies by Le Gallienne, Richard