personate
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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
He personate bad Envy; yet say so, He lickt at Homer's mouth, not from below.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Richard Crashaw
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
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
I forgot myself, and told her that Johnny had hired a man to personate a parson, and that she was not married at all.
From Out of a Labyrinth by Lawrence L. Lynch
“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
As also Psal. cix. the Psalmist personates Christ, complaining of, and imprecating against his enemies; particularly Judas the traitor, verse 8.
From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields
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
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
The parasite then personates the captain’s servant, and, by means of the credentials of which he had possessed himself, obtains the damsel Filesia, whom he carries to her lover.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by John Dunlop
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
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
All at once Lilia fled behind the flower-bushes, for her enemy, Salera, Carlos's father, came, personated by Bouverot.
From Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) by Jean Paul
Immediately the most piercing cries were heard through the harem; whilst Shaban and Sutlememe personated, with great adroitness, the parts of persons in despair.
From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by William Beckford
Has he not said a hundred times that, if it were not for personating the Christ, he would have left Ammergau long ago?
From On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Wilhelmine von Hillern
In personating his sister, I only claimed a grant to the land.
From Gabriel Conroy by Bert Harte
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
There was a charge preferred against you, or some one of your name, a few weeks ago, of personating a candidate at the examination for commissions in the army.
From Laid up in Lavender by Stanley J. Weyman
The first example of the abbreviated ballet skirt, reaching to the knee, is given in the portrait of an actress personating Le Zephyr, about the middle of the 18th century.
From The Evolution of Fashion by Florence Mary Gardiner
