In particular, he used short motifs in close imitation, and often used strict canonic devices.

It is unusual among songs of the time in using very close imitation, and it seems to have initiated a trend.

"No," said Ruth, smiling, "but a close imitation."

Its touch is a close imitation to an upright piano's - and it can indeed play musically.

She pursed her lips and lowered her voice into a close imitation of Garber's good-natured growl.

If those letters were written in a reasonably close imitation of his sister's writing, it wouldn't occur to him to doubt them.

Wordsworth's "Rainbow" was such a song, with its trio of singers in close imitation.

Olive, a collection of love-sonnets written in close imitation of Petrarch, first appeared in 1549.

They were a close imitation of a type minted by the Fatimid caliph az-Zāhir (1020-35) over a century earlier.

While some reproductions may be indistinguishable from the originals, most are close imitations.