personate

Example Sentences

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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

But that all-essential one—if we desire to secure the confidence of our contemporaries, and the respect of posterity—of an honest man, I fear he was never able to personate successfully.

From Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland by Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport)

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

He had as a friend a man who resembled him very closely, and he offered this friend a sum of money if he would go to Melbourne and personate him.

From The Everlasting Arms by Hocking, Joseph

Corolla personate, with the prominent palate often nearly closing the throat, spurred at base on the lower side.

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