personate

Example Sentences

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I forgot myself, and told her that Johnny had hired a man to personate a parson, and that she was not married at all.

From Out of a Labyrinth by Lynch, Lawrence L.

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.

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

"He is bold enough," said Gaspard, in a whisper to Albano, "because, as I hear, he is really to personate himself; but when he sees himself so, he is surely better than he sees himself."

From Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) by Jean Paul

It was seriously believed in Germany for about a century after his death that Frederick was still alive, and many impostors attempted to personate him.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various