personate

Example Sentences

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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 Lynch, Lawrence L.

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 Mann, Mary E.

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)

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.

By his counsel the god celebrated a sham marriage with a wooden image, dressed up to personate Plataea, daughter of Asopus.

From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Lang, Andrew