personate
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Ah, before Liana it had rained without sunshine, when she to-day secretly went over merely into the Temple of Dream, in order only to personate a beloved being, but not to be one.
From Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) by Jean Paul
To assume the office or character of; to play; to personate; as, to act the hero.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
"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
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 Richard Crashaw
He had as a friend a man who resembled him very closely, and he offered this friend a sum of money if he would go to Melbourne and personate him.
From The Everlasting Arms by Joseph Hocking
“Everett Quinton personates the oinker as a most sympathetic fellow,” Don Nelsen wrote in a review in The Daily News.
From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2023
"Thine enemies," said Macoma, "O Sultan, are no more, save the enchantress Hapacuson, who personates the rebel Ourodi."
From Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers by L. (Laura) Valentine
For aught I know he still roams the Adirondack forest, and maybe personates the ghostly and ghastly white deer of song and legend.
From The Wit of Women Fourth Edition by Kate Sanborn
A man holding the Salagram personates the bridegroom, and another holding the sacred Tulsi personates the bride.
From Folklore as an Historical Science by George Laurence Gomme
In this game, one boy personates the Stag, and with his hands closed together, starts from his bounds after the other players.
From The Book of Sports: Containing Out-door Sports, Amusements and Recreations, Including Gymnastics, Gardening & Carpentering by William Martin
The real Garlinghouse reported this to Instagram, which took a look ... and then 72 hours later, informed him that after investigating the company had determined that he was not actually being personated.
From The Verge ● Apr. 22, 2020
Dr. Trefusis personated a violinist, sawing upon the air.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Immediately the most piercing cries were heard through the harem; whilst Shaban and Sutlememe personated, with great adroitness, the parts of persons in despair.
From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by William Beckford
He had already personated the Countess Trifaldi very successfully; and, with his master's instructions in relation to his behaviour towards Sancho, could not but discharge his trust to a wonder.
From The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Here was she married to the surviving brother of the girl she had personated.
From Gabriel Conroy by Bert Harte
The loathsome sight of men personating characters which do not and cannot belong to them.
From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) by Florence A. Thomas Marshall
There was a charge preferred against you, or some one of your name, a few weeks ago, of personating a candidate at the examination for commissions in the army.
From Laid up in Lavender by Stanley J. Weyman
The first example of the abbreviated ballet skirt, reaching to the knee, is given in the portrait of an actress personating Le Zephyr, about the middle of the 18th century.
From The Evolution of Fashion by Florence Mary Gardiner
Your personating the author will infallibly introduce my play on the stage, and spite of their prejudice, make the theatre ring with applause, and teach even that injudicious Canaille to know their own interest.
From Three Hours after Marriage by John Arbuthnot
What a majesty Without all servile affectation His personating presence, cloth'd with state And princely posture, seems to represent!
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Robert Dodsley
