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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

The two captives personate each other, and induce Hegio to send home Philocrates, who was a wealthy noble, and keep only the born slave.

From The Brothers' War by John Calvin Reed

Ah, before Liana it had rained without sunshine, when she to-day secretly went over merely into the Temple of Dream, in order only to personate a beloved being, but not to be one.

From Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) by Jean Paul

I forgot myself, and told her that Johnny had hired a man to personate a parson, and that she was not married at all.

From Out of a Labyrinth by Lawrence L. Lynch

Her selfe a while she layes aside, and makes Ready to personate a mortall part.

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

“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

The characteristic scrolls about the eyes of the figure show that it personates tlaloc, or earth-wine.

From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Zelia Nuttall

The etholog personates a specimen of a class which helps to characterize a period.

From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by William Graham Sumner

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 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

Many persons gathered around Andrews, who here, as always, personated the conductor of our train, and showered upon him many curious and somewhat suspicious questions.

From Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. by William Pittenger

With him it was easy to deal, poor wretch! but the clever rogues who had employed him and personated the members of the honourable firm of Bluestone & Fagg were never traced.

From Uncanny Tales by Mrs. Mary Louisa Molesworth

She personated Valeria, the daughter of Maximin, tyrant of Rome.

From The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) by Frederic Rowland Marvin

"We've got one of our best men there this minute, personating Carl Pforzheim."

From The Messenger by Elizabeth Robins

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

In personating his sister, I only claimed a grant to the land.

From Gabriel Conroy by Bert Harte

An ambitious man had attained to imperial power by personating the interests of a rapidly growing party.

From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by John William Draper

Is this professed pensioner personating a man who is dead?

From Finger Prints by Sir Francis Galton