Sentence examples for the table in imitation of from inspiring English sources

If friends had come for dinner, he'd arise from an evening nap and leisurely tour the table in imitation of a three-star headwaiter: Everything O.K. here?

Edmund held many tournaments at Kenilworth in the late 13th century, including a huge event in 1279, presided over by the royal favourite Roger de Mortimer, in which a hundred knights competed for three days in the tiltyard in an event called "the Round Table", in imitation of the popular Arthurian legends.

In the 1740s, in imitation of French Neoclassicism, Aleksandr Sumarokov wrote the first Russian stage tragedies.

Elroy Jetson proceeds to the Little Dipper School, in imitation of the original intro to The Jetsons.

Big-headed roses pose on tables, as if in imitation of the cloudy still lifes of roses that adorn the wall, painted by Alex and Natasha's father.

The scene was in imitation of long-held ritual.

Thus category II is not a domain of imitation, and the table in a painting is not to use the words with which people misquote Book 10 the "imitation of an imitation".

Used for upholstery and table covers, it was worked in imitation of Turkish carpets, which are known from paintings to have been imported to England from the 16th century.

The project was renamed Casablanca, apparently in imitation of the 1938 hit Algiers.

Ornithopter, machine designed to fly by the flapping of its wings in imitation of birds.

Probably in imitation of the Han imperial throne, the patriarchate of the movement was made hereditary.