personate

Example Sentences

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He had as a friend a man who resembled him very closely, and he offered this friend a sum of money if he would go to Melbourne and personate him.

From The Everlasting Arms by Hocking, Joseph

"That album," I said, pointing to it--"it contains, I suppose, the photographs of the people you have been employed to personate?"

From Laid up in Lavender by Weyman, Stanley J.

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.

But that all-essential one—if we desire to secure the confidence of our contemporaries, and the respect of posterity—of an honest man, I fear he was never able to personate successfully.

From Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland by Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport)

Then, having consulted his watch, he took from his pocket-book a letter, addressed to the man he was about to personate, and refreshed his memory.

From The Duke Decides by Hill, Headon