personate

Example Sentences

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So it occurred to General Funston; “Why not personate the reinforcements called for, the American officers to command the expedition assuming the rôle of captured American prisoners?”

From The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by Blount, James H.

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

Her selfe a while she layes aside, and makes Ready to personate a mortall part.

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard

Whether in these boxes full of beauties one amongst them is intended by Leech to personate Mr. Smith’s “dreadfully bored” young lady, I cannot say.

From John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1 by Frith, William Powell

I forgot myself, and told her that Johnny had hired a man to personate a parson, and that she was not married at all.

From Out of a Labyrinth by Lynch, Lawrence L.