personate

Example Sentences

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The two captives personate each other, and induce Hegio to send home Philocrates, who was a wealthy noble, and keep only the born slave.

From The Brothers' War by Reed, John Calvin

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

Anybody who could pretend for a moment to suppose that Mr. Eglinton by "making up" could personate "Abdullah" must be a fool.

From There is no Death by Marryatt, Florence

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 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.