personate

Example Sentences

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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.

In the night he fled, accompanied by his wife and child, leaving the tribe in charge of his younger brother Sondaba, who agreed to personate him.

From By Veldt and Kopje by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)

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, 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

"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.