personate

Example Sentences

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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 Crashaw, Richard

Anybody who could pretend for a moment to suppose that Mr. Eglinton by "making up" could personate "Abdullah" must be a fool.

From There is no Death by Marryatt, Florence

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.

Corolla personate, with the prominent palate often nearly closing the throat, spurred at base on the lower side.

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

"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.