personate
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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
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 Richard Crashaw
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 W. C. (William Charles) Scully
"He is bold enough," said Gaspard, in a whisper to Albano, "because, as I hear, he is really to personate himself; but when he sees himself so, he is surely better than he sees himself."
From Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) by Jean Paul
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
“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
For aught I know he still roams the Adirondack forest, and maybe personates the ghostly and ghastly white deer of song and legend.
From The Wit of Women Fourth Edition by Kate Sanborn
Beginning with this, he personates Oscar until Lucilla again loses her sight.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
Colonel Feignwell personates Simon Pure, and obtains the Quaker’s consent to his marriage with Anne Lovely.—Mrs.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
"Thine enemies," said Macoma, "O Sultan, are no more, save the enchantress Hapacuson, who personates the rebel Ourodi."
From Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers by L. (Laura) Valentine
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
It appeared that it was not the first time Despard had personated young De Hauteroche, to his own advantage, and the latter’s disgrace.
From The Guerilla Chief And other Tales by Mayne Reid
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
Drawn faithfully, and personated by Mr. James Lewis, the dramatized interviewer would be a wealth of pleasure.
From The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 by Various
The actor needs more of the personating instinct or insight into motives of character; the speaker, more insight into the conditions of human thought and feeling.
From Browning and the Dramatic Monologue by S. S. (Samuel Silas) Curry
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
The more uncertain were my orders the better, for he whom I was now personating might really have decided views of his own of a contrary policy.
From The White Shield by Bertram Mitford
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 G. Harvey (George Harvey) Ralphson
Is this professed pensioner personating a man who is dead?
From Finger Prints by Sir Francis Galton
