personate

Example Sentences

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An indescribable fear overpowered the countess--but it now seemed to her as if she did not dread the man whom she expected to see, but Him he was to personate.

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

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

From Laid up in Lavender by Weyman, Stanley J.

"He is bold enough," said Gaspard, in a whisper to Albano, "because, as I hear, he is really to personate himself; but when he sees himself so, he is surely better than he sees himself."

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

"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, 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