personate

Example Sentences

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They were allowed to choose their own diversion, and they fixed that their father and the Grand Duchess should appear as Oberon and Titania, and that every guest should personate some fairy character.

From Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories by Morgan, Louisa

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

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

O, that she should have so much as ventured to personate either before him!

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

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

From Laid up in Lavender by Weyman, Stanley J.