personate
Example Sentences
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By her pose she was immediately recognized as Lillie Bell, who indeed was just the one to personate the fair and bewitching “Lady of Petticoat Lane,” alias Polly Spratt, Polly Prevoorst, and Polly Alexander.
From Blue Robin, the Girl Pioneer by Halsey, Rena I.
He was, besides, a ventriloquist, and could thus personate and imitate any character or any voice he chose.
From Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete by Hogan, William
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)
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 Gray, Asa
It was seriously believed in Germany for about a century after his death that Frederick was still alive, and many impostors attempted to personate him.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various
