Crossword-Solution: APINGS 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

There is something very sweet and juvenile and innocent and pretty about these little tinsel vanities, these grave apings of monarchical fuss and feathers and ceremony, here on our ostentatiously democratic soil.

She had been bothered by him ever since dinner--dinner at night at the Cactus House, which was inclined to be Eastern and effete in its apings--but his persecutions there had been confined to lurking, contrived meetings, and long glances which touched her noisomely.

The author had one great merit--he studied from _life_ and truth, and did not rehash what he had read in other novels, as do the majority of story-tellers at the present day, when a romance which is _not_ crammed with palpable apings of 'Jane Eyre' and 'Adam Bede' is becoming a rarity.

This is why those works of theirs bear the impress of veracious truth, and why no anxious striving after 'effect,' no laboured apings of other things, defile and desecrate that of the Heavenly which has revealed itself to them, pure, and clear, and undefiled.

How could I pass you without pressing a hasty kiss on your pale lips? But if Lessing effectually put an end to the servile apings of Franco-Grecian art, yet, by directing attention to the true art-works of Grecian antiquity, to a certain extent he gave an impetus to a new and equally silly species of imitation.