personate

Example Sentences

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His own affection for Hallam seems to personate the object of his attachment, and “sees himself in all he sees.”

From A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam' by Gatty, Alfred, Mrs.

By his counsel the god celebrated a sham marriage with a wooden image, dressed up to personate Plataea, daughter of Asopus.

From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Lang, Andrew

He would never have got me to personate him even for a couple of hours.

From By Right of Sword by Marchmont, Arthur W. (Arthur Williams)

They did not always personate the same characters.

From Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. by Pittenger, William

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