personate

Example Sentences

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"That album," I said, pointing to it--"it contains, I suppose, the photographs of the people you have been employed to personate?"

From Laid up in Lavender by Weyman, Stanley J.

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

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

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

Ah, before Liana it had rained without sunshine, when she to-day secretly went over merely into the Temple of Dream, in order only to personate a beloved being, but not to be one.

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