personate
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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 W. C. (William Charles) Scully
They did not always personate the same characters.
From Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. by William Pittenger
He would never have got me to personate him even for a couple of hours.
From By Right of Sword by Arthur W. (Arthur Williams) Marchmont
"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
To assume the office or character of; to play; to personate; as, to act the hero.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
“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
This simple tableau is represented by two females: one personates Day, and is costumed in a long white robe.
From Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants by James H. Head
Colonel Feignwell personates Simon Pure, and obtains the Quaker’s consent to his marriage with Anne Lovely.—Mrs.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
That shadowy body, now reduced to four members, personates the ghost of the European concert.
From The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 by Various
The child-adventurer as he personates Robinson Crusoe or other hero becomes another being.
From Children's Ways by James Sully
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
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
In certain tragedies, these singers personated the Eumenides or Furies.
From The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies by Catherine Ann White
Immediately the most piercing cries were heard through the harem; whilst Shaban and Sutlememe personated, with great adroitness, the parts of persons in despair.
From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by William Beckford
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
Anastasia was again personating Mary, the countess instantly recognized her pure, clear tones, and the meeting in the fields ten years before came back to her mind--not without a throb of jealous emotion.
From On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Wilhelmine von Hillern
This part of the story might be true or not; but certain it was that the ladies had gone away in the company of some one who was personating Luis de Hauteroche.
From The Guerilla Chief And other Tales by Mayne Reid
If they have once taken a degree themselves, they can only carry on this trade by assuming the name of some candidate, to whom a fee must be paid for the privilege of personating him.
From Village Life in China A Study in Sociology by Arthur H. Smith
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
