personate
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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
Corolla personate, the palate on the lower lip projecting, often closing the throat; upper lip erect.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
So it occurred to General Funston; “Why not personate the reinforcements called for, the American officers to command the expedition assuming the rôle of captured American prisoners?”
From The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by Blount, James H.
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 Gatty, Alfred, Mrs.
“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
In this case the hen and chickens make a procession in front of a player who personates an old weeping woman.
From What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
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 Atkinson, J. Beavington
"But are you satisfied that Mrs. Conroy is really the person who stands behind Colonel Starbottle and personates my wife?"
From Gabriel Conroy by Harte, Bert
Whilst Erostrato, a young gentleman, acts the part of a domestic in the house of his mistress’s father, his servant, Dulippo, personates his master, and studies in his place at the university of Ferrara.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by Dunlop, John
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
The reference probably is to the scene in the dream-temple, where Liana personated Idoine, Cycle 78.--Tr.
From Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) by Jean Paul
An exceedingly amiable and highly intellectual gentleman is the hero of this piece; a part personated by a M. Lockroi with a degree of ability deserving a worthier employment.
From Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) by Trollope, Frances Milton
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 Lecky, William Edward Hartpole
What a majesty Without all servile affectation His personating presence, cloth'd with state And princely posture, seems to represent!
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Dodsley, Robert
The loathsome sight of men personating characters which do not and cannot belong to them.
From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) by Marshall, Florence A. Thomas
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 Ralphson, G. Harvey (George Harvey)
There he had a long talk with a fellow who seemed to be personating a bricklayer.
From Dangerous Ground or, The Rival Detectives by Lynch, Lawrence L.
"I have met her, I am personating her at the present moment," Jessie whispered.
From The Weight of the Crown by White, Fred M. (Fred Merrick)
