"Simulate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the laboratory tables a letter, without heading and without signature, written in a disguised hand, with an evident attempt to simulate the cramped ...
— The War Terror • Arthur B. Reeve
... to simulate a tent, had no other decoration than some trophies of Arabian arms, souvenirs of ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet
... argue this question would be a reductio ad absurdum. Nature is far better than the laboratory. Artificial waters may simulate the natural in taste and appearance, but fall far short of their ...
— Saratoga and How to See It • R. F. Dearborn
... mention the names that immediately preceded Cila's across the ocean—but it is only in the manner, not in the matter, except, as some disagreeable seekers after reminiscences will say, when that matter is borrowed. There is some graceful music in the score and some strains which simulate. passion; but to find in any of its parts the kind of music which vitalizes the word or heightens the dramatic situation is a hopeless task. It is melodramatic music, which becomes most fluent when there is least occasion for it, and which makes its ...
— Chapters of Opera • Henry Edward Krehbiel
... some men prefer their doll's wax made of rouge and spermaceti and cold cream. I am straightforward; but duplicity is more pleasing. I am loyally passionate, as an honest woman may be, but I ought to be manoeuvring, tricky, hypocritical, and simulate a coldness I have not,—like any provincial actress. I am intoxicated with the happiness of having married one of the most charming men in France; I tell him, naively, how distinguished he is, how graceful his movements are, how handsome I think him; ...
— Beatrix • Honore de Balzac
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