personate

Example Sentences

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Then, having consulted his watch, he took from his pocket-book a letter, addressed to the man he was about to personate, and refreshed his memory.

From The Duke Decides by Hill, Headon

He would never have got me to personate him even for a couple of hours.

From By Right of Sword by Marchmont, Arthur W. (Arthur Williams)

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

"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

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