The musician swung the bass over his head like an axe and smashed it into the amplifier, creating a discordant howl of noise.

The essential process is the copying of one's own action and not the action of some one else. It is thus seen that all imitation is of the reflex type, and fundamentally all imitation is autoimitation.

Mr Toots’s legs shake under him; and though he is splendidly dressed, he feels misfits, and sees wrinkles, in the masterpieces of Burgess and Co., and wishes he had put on that brightest pair of boots.

Charlie's been talking up Robbie in an attempt to set him up with Lucy.