personate
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It was seriously believed in Germany for about a century after his death that Frederick was still alive, and many impostors attempted to personate him.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various
O, that she should have so much as ventured to personate either before him!
From Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) by Jean Paul
"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
Two children are chosen for these dignitaries, while the others call out the names of such flowers, fruits, or vegetables as each may decide to personate.
From Spanish Highways and Byways by Katharine Lee Bates
To assume the office or character of; to play; to personate; as, to act the hero.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
“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
In the smaller towns and villages in northern Germany, the presents are sent by all the parents to some one fellow who, in high buskins, white robe, mask, and flaxen wig, personates the servant, Rupert.
From Threads of Grey and Gold by Myrtle Reed
In this game, one boy personates the Stag, and with his hands closed together, starts from his bounds after the other players.
From The Book of Sports: Containing Out-door Sports, Amusements and Recreations, Including Gymnastics, Gardening & Carpentering by William Martin
To the point, hee oft personates a rover, and therein comes neerest to himselfe.
From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by John Earle
He personates characters, with costume and mimic gesture.
From Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class and Moral Culture of Infancy. by Mary E. Mann
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
Here was she married to the surviving brother of the girl she had personated.
From Gabriel Conroy by Bert Harte
Immediately the most piercing cries were heard through the harem; whilst Shaban and Sutlememe personated, with great adroitness, the parts of persons in despair.
From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by William Beckford
Sometimes they personated characters in Homer or in ancient Greek history, and delivered speeches which those characters might have delivered in certain conjunctures of their lives.
From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky
"An actor should never take his call in his own character, but always in that which he has been personating."
From Memoirs of an American Prima Donna by Clara Louise Kellogg
Anastasia was again personating Mary, the countess instantly recognized her pure, clear tones, and the meeting in the fields ten years before came back to her mind--not without a throb of jealous emotion.
From On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Wilhelmine von Hillern
I tried to interpret for myself, within certain well-defined limits, according to my personal conception of the characters I was personating.
From Memoirs of an American Prima Donna by Clara Louise Kellogg
Siberia at least, if it was discovered that I had been personating a Russian officer and fighting duels in his name.
From By Right of Sword by Arthur W. (Arthur Williams) Marchmont
These are wicked Grecian spirits who are personating their gods and goddesses, their heroes and heroines.
From In Both Worlds by William Henry Holcombe
