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
So it occurred to General Funston; “Why not personate the reinforcements called for, the American officers to command the expedition assuming the rôle of captured American prisoners?”
From The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by Blount, James H.
"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.
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
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
