personate
Example Sentences
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They did not always personate the same characters.
From Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. by Pittenger, William
Such things are doubtless very wrong, but they are the work of idlers and vagrants, who personate my soldiers.
From Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) by Lindley, Augustus F.
But to imagine he could personate the brave St. Udo!
From Faithful Margaret A Novel by Ashmore, Annie
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.
An indescribable fear overpowered the countess--but it now seemed to her as if she did not dread the man whom she expected to see, but Him he was to personate.
From On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Hillern, Wilhelmine von
