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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

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

Two children are chosen for these dignitaries, while the others call out the names of such flowers, fruits, or vegetables as each may decide to personate.

From Spanish Highways and Byways by Katharine Lee Bates

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 Wilhelmine von Hillern

He would never have got me to personate him even for a couple of hours.

From By Right of Sword by Arthur W. (Arthur Williams) Marchmont

“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

But this lofty strain of inspiration proved transient, and Overbeck, as seen in Munich, truly personates the apostle who leant on the Saviour's breast.

From Overbeck by J. Beavington Atkinson

The gentleman who personates Prince Albert should, in general outline of features and form, resemble the original as much as possible.

From Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants by James H. Head

He is a great imitator, and personates the different characters exactly.

From The Bobbin Boy or, How Nat Got His learning by William M. (William Makepeace) Thayer

It resembled that of the stage where the same actor personates both Dromios; and their life was one perpetual Comedy of Errors.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan

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

He thought of the mistake that he had committed on the day that Harriet had personated her unwillingly, and blushed for the error of the act.

From Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 3 of 3) by Frederick William Robinson

When the religious dramas, called Mysteries, came into vogue, this martyrdom was represented on the stage at Melun, and the character of the saint was personated by one Languille.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 89, July 12, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. by Various

Many persons gathered around Andrews, who here, as always, personated the conductor of our train, and showered upon him many curious and somewhat suspicious questions.

From Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. by William Pittenger

These are wicked Grecian spirits who are personating their gods and goddesses, their heroes and heroines.

From In Both Worlds by William Henry Holcombe

I tried to interpret for myself, within certain well-defined limits, according to my personal conception of the characters I was personating.

From Memoirs of an American Prima Donna by Clara Louise Kellogg

That the person who was on a visit to the Villa Dardonville was not Monsieur De Hauteroche; but, as I have reason to believe, a noted sportsman, or rather swindler, who is personating him.

From The Guerilla Chief And other Tales by Mayne Reid

He acts exactly as a man would act who was personating some one else.

From Faithful Margaret A Novel by Annie Ashmore

Is this professed pensioner personating a man who is dead?

From Finger Prints by Sir Francis Galton