personate

Example Sentences

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"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 Weyman, Stanley J.

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

He would never have got me to personate him even for a couple of hours.

From By Right of Sword by Marchmont, Arthur W. (Arthur Williams)

To assume the office or character of; to play; to personate; as, to act the hero.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

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 Lynch, Lawrence L.