personate
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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
They did not always personate the same characters.
From Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. by William Pittenger
So it occurred to General Funston; “Why not personate the reinforcements called for, the American officers to command the expedition assuming the rôle of captured American prisoners?”
From The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. Blount
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 Mary E. Mann
“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
That shadowy body, now reduced to four members, personates the ghost of the European concert.
From The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 by Various
Colonel Feignwell personates Simon Pure, and obtains the Quaker’s consent to his marriage with Anne Lovely.—Mrs.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
Beginning with this, he personates Oscar until Lucilla again loses her sight.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
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
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
This scoundrel, who has so successfully personated his victim, the late Launcelot Trevanion, is the husband of one Catharine Lawless, through whose information his villainy has been frustrated.
From Nevermore by Rolf Bolderwood
How completely he personated the characters that he assumed I can testify from comparison with what may be called his originals, the actual Hotspurs and Hamlets, the soldiers and princes, of the real world.
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 3, August, 1893 by Various
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
I was told by the man I was personating in these rooms that the whole plot was known.
From Boy Scouts in the Northwest Fighting Forest Fires by G. Harvey (George Harvey) Ralphson
Siberia at least, if it was discovered that I had been personating a Russian officer and fighting duels in his name.
From By Right of Sword by Arthur W. (Arthur Williams) Marchmont
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
At the sight of him I quite forgot that I was personating a man, and would have liked to have fallen down before him and kissed his hand.
From Eyes Like the Sea by Mór Jókai
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
