personate
Example Sentences
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His own affection for Hallam seems to personate the object of his attachment, and “sees himself in all he sees.”
From A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam' by Gatty, Alfred, Mrs.
By his counsel the god celebrated a sham marriage with a wooden image, dressed up to personate Plataea, daughter of Asopus.
From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Lang, Andrew
By her pose she was immediately recognized as Lillie Bell, who indeed was just the one to personate the fair and bewitching “Lady of Petticoat Lane,” alias Polly Spratt, Polly Prevoorst, and Polly Alexander.
From Blue Robin, the Girl Pioneer by Halsey, Rena I.
"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.
But to imagine he could personate the brave St. Udo!
From Faithful Margaret A Novel by Ashmore, Annie
