personate

Example Sentences

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Keep near me, and follow me to the dressing-rooms; by-and-by we will exchange costumes there, after which, you will personate me.”

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

He personate bad Envy; yet say so, He lickt at Homer's mouth, not from below.

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard

"Was this sent to you that you might personate the original?"

From Laid up in Lavender by Weyman, Stanley J.

An indescribable fear overpowered the countess--but it now seemed to her as if she did not dread the man whom she expected to see, but Him he was to personate.

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

He had as a friend a man who resembled him very closely, and he offered this friend a sum of money if he would go to Melbourne and personate him.

From The Everlasting Arms by Hocking, Joseph