personate
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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 Asa Gray
"Was this sent to you that you might personate the original?"
From Laid up in Lavender by Stanley J. Weyman
Keep near me, and follow me to the dressing-rooms; by-and-by we will exchange costumes there, after which, you will personate me.”
From Dangerous Ground or, The Rival Detectives by Lawrence L. Lynch
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 James H. Blount
"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 Wilhelmine von Hillern
“Everett Quinton personates the oinker as a most sympathetic fellow,” Don Nelsen wrote in a review in The Daily News.
From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2023
The parasite then personates the captain’s servant, and, by means of the credentials of which he had possessed himself, obtains the damsel Filesia, whom he carries to her lover.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by John Dunlop
In this case the hen and chickens make a procession in front of a player who personates an old weeping woman.
From What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Colonel Freeman personates a French fop, and obtains his consent to marry his ward, the heiress.—Mrs.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
As also Psal. cix. the Psalmist personates Christ, complaining of, and imprecating against his enemies; particularly Judas the traitor, verse 8.
From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields
The real Garlinghouse reported this to Instagram, which took a look ... and then 72 hours later, informed him that after investigating the company had determined that he was not actually being personated.
From The Verge ● Apr. 22, 2020
Dr. Trefusis personated a violinist, sawing upon the air.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
That all this might be even reconcilable with the fact of his marriage to the woman who had personated the sister, Arthur easily comprehended.
From Gabriel Conroy by Bert Harte
He espoused the cause of an impostor who personated the deposed khalifa, Hisham, and pretended to govern the city in his name.
From Southern Spain by A. F. (Albert Frederick) Calvert
Drawn faithfully, and personated by Mr. James Lewis, the dramatized interviewer would be a wealth of pleasure.
From The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 by Various
At the sight of him I quite forgot that I was personating a man, and would have liked to have fallen down before him and kissed his hand.
From Eyes Like the Sea by Mór Jókai
"We've got one of our best men there this minute, personating Carl Pforzheim."
From The Messenger by Elizabeth Robins
The actor needs more of the personating instinct or insight into motives of character; the speaker, more insight into the conditions of human thought and feeling.
From Browning and the Dramatic Monologue by S. S. (Samuel Silas) Curry
This part of the story might be true or not; but certain it was that the ladies had gone away in the company of some one who was personating Luis de Hauteroche.
From The Guerilla Chief And other Tales by Mayne Reid
These are wicked Grecian spirits who are personating their gods and goddesses, their heroes and heroines.
From In Both Worlds by William Henry Holcombe
