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Anybody who could pretend for a moment to suppose that Mr. Eglinton by "making up" could personate "Abdullah" must be a fool.

From There is no Death by Florence Marryatt

They did not always personate the same characters.

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

To assume the office or character of; to play; to personate; as, to act the hero.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster

His own affection for Hallam seems to personate the object of his attachment, and “sees himself in all he sees.”

From A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam' by Mrs. Alfred Gatty

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

The characteristic scrolls about the eyes of the figure show that it personates tlaloc, or earth-wine.

From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Zelia Nuttall

This is one of the groans of old Burton over his laborious work, when he is anticipating the reception it is like to meet with, and personates his objectors.

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli

In this game, one boy personates the Stag, and with his hands closed together, starts from his bounds after the other players.

From The Book of Sports: Containing Out-door Sports, Amusements and Recreations, Including Gymnastics, Gardening & Carpentering by William Martin

Maya is an Indian deity, and personates the “power of creation.”

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

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

The green woollen stockings, in which he had personated the outlaw, still appeared upon his legs—with a pair of heavy hobnailed buskins on his feet.

From The White Gauntlet by Mayne Reid

The reference probably is to the scene in the dream-temple, where Liana personated Idoine, Cycle 78.--Tr.

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

Your personating the author will infallibly introduce my play on the stage, and spite of their prejudice, make the theatre ring with applause, and teach even that injudicious Canaille to know their own interest.

From Three Hours after Marriage by John Arbuthnot

"We've got one of our best men there this minute, personating Carl Pforzheim."

From The Messenger by Elizabeth Robins

Great caution will be used in the distribution, to prevent fraud in personating deceased officers, &c.

From Mr. Punch on the Warpath Humours of the Army, The Navy and The Reserve Forces by Various

By personating a man with a missing friend—thereby receiving information and giving none—he obtained from the police a description of the head of the man found in the portmanteau.

From '?19,000' by Burford Delannoy

And can I not do it by personating Phakir Chand himself, who is expected by his mother shortly?

From Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day