personate
Example Sentences
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Whether in these boxes full of beauties one amongst them is intended by Leech to personate Mr. Smith’s “dreadfully bored” young lady, I cannot say.
From John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1 by Frith, William Powell
They did not always personate the same characters.
From Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. by Pittenger, William
Corolla personate, with the prominent palate often nearly closing the throat, spurred at base on the lower side.
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
The cast of parts has unluckily not been preserved, but it is sufficient for us to know that the lower boys were put into requisition to personate the mutes.
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.
