personate
Example Sentences
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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)
Children delight to personate animals; and a fine genius could not better employ itself than in inventing a great many more plays, setting them to rhythmical words, describing what is to be done.
From Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class and Moral Culture of Infancy. by Mann, Mary E.
"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
"Was this sent to you that you might personate the original?"
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
