personate

They were allowed to choose their own diversion, and they fixed that their father and the Grand Duchess should appear as Oberon and Titania, and that every guest should personate some fairy character.

From Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories by Louisa Morgan

Two children are chosen for these dignitaries, while the others call out the names of such flowers, fruits, or vegetables as each may decide to personate.

From Spanish Highways and Byways by Katharine Lee Bates

"Thomas Rendner will personate the Christ well--there is no danger on that score."

From On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Wilhelmine von Hillern

His own affection for Hallam seems to personate the object of his attachment, and “sees himself in all he sees.”

From A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam' by Mrs. Alfred Gatty

"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 Stanley J. Weyman

“Everett Quinton personates the oinker as a most sympathetic fellow,” Don Nelsen wrote in a review in The Daily News.

From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2023

For aught I know he still roams the Adirondack forest, and maybe personates the ghostly and ghastly white deer of song and legend.

From The Wit of Women Fourth Edition by Kate Sanborn

But this lofty strain of inspiration proved transient, and Overbeck, as seen in Munich, truly personates the apostle who leant on the Saviour's breast.

From Overbeck by J. Beavington Atkinson

This is one of the groans of old Burton over his laborious work, when he is anticipating the reception it is like to meet with, and personates his objectors.

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli

Maya is an Indian deity, and personates the “power of creation.”

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

The real Garlinghouse reported this to Instagram, which took a look ... and then 72 hours later, informed him that after investigating the company had determined that he was not actually being personated.

From The Verge ● Apr. 22, 2020

Dr. Trefusis personated a violinist, sawing upon the air.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

That all this might be even reconcilable with the fact of his marriage to the woman who had personated the sister, Arthur easily comprehended.

From Gabriel Conroy by Bert Harte

It appeared that it was not the first time Despard had personated young De Hauteroche, to his own advantage, and the latter’s disgrace.

From The Guerilla Chief And other Tales by Mayne Reid

Sometimes they personated characters in Homer or in ancient Greek history, and delivered speeches which those characters might have delivered in certain conjunctures of their lives.

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

He acts exactly as a man would act who was personating some one else.

From Faithful Margaret A Novel by Annie Ashmore

I was told by the man I was personating in these rooms that the whole plot was known.

From Boy Scouts in the Northwest Fighting Forest Fires by G. Harvey (George Harvey) Ralphson

We hear Selim’s voice first, as we pay him this attention for personating the hero of this veracious romance.

From My Kalulu, Prince, King and Slave A Story of Central Africa by Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley

And can I not do it by personating Phakir Chand himself, who is expected by his mother shortly?

From Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day

Mr. Follingsbee, also in costume, will join you, and together you will attend an up-town masquerade, you personating Mrs. Follingsbee, who will remain at home.”

From Dangerous Ground or, The Rival Detectives by Lawrence L. Lynch