personate
Example Sentences
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"Was this sent to you that you might personate the original?"
From Laid up in Lavender by Weyman, Stanley J.
"That album," I said, pointing to it--"it contains, I suppose, the photographs of the people you have been employed to personate?"
From Laid up in Lavender by Weyman, Stanley J.
The cast of parts has unluckily not been preserved, but it is sufficient for us to know that the lower boys were put into requisition to personate the mutes.
In the night he fled, accompanied by his wife and child, leaving the tribe in charge of his younger brother Sondaba, who agreed to personate him.
From By Veldt and Kopje by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)
By her pose she was immediately recognized as Lillie Bell, who indeed was just the one to personate the fair and bewitching “Lady of Petticoat Lane,” alias Polly Spratt, Polly Prevoorst, and Polly Alexander.
From Blue Robin, the Girl Pioneer by Halsey, Rena I.
