personate

Example Sentences

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"Thomas Rendner will personate the Christ well--there is no danger on that score."

From On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Hillern, Wilhelmine von

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 Bates, Katharine Lee

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

Ah, before Liana it had rained without sunshine, when she to-day secretly went over merely into the Temple of Dream, in order only to personate a beloved being, but not to be one.

From Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) by Jean Paul

"Was this sent to you that you might personate the original?"

From Laid up in Lavender by Weyman, Stanley J.