personate
Example Sentences
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The cast of parts has unluckily not been preserved, but it is sufficient for us to know that the lower boys were put into requisition to personate the mutes.
"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.
"Was this sent to you that you might personate the original?"
From Laid up in Lavender by Weyman, Stanley J.
The two captives personate each other, and induce Hegio to send home Philocrates, who was a wealthy noble, and keep only the born slave.
From The Brothers' War by Reed, John Calvin
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.
