personation

Example Sentences

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Willie B. M.—The dates you require are given in "A Personation," on page 392 of Young People No. 28.

From Harper's Young People, June 15, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

As sung by Harry Macarthy in his Personation Concerts, 1862.

From Southern War Songs Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental by Various

The Descriptive and Personation should be so distinctly marked, that the attention will be at once attracted to the different styles, and the meaning understood.

From The Canadian Elocutionist by Howard, Anna Kelsey

A Personation, on page 328—Queen Charlotte Sophia, wife of George the Third of England.

From Harper's Young People, May 4, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

Personation is the representation, by a single reader or speaker, of the words, manners, and actions of one or several persons.

From The Canadian Elocutionist by Howard, Anna Kelsey