personate

You have been brought there to personate someone, and the real person is imprisoned in this chamber.

Nothing is easier than to personate a public character.

He was in a garden, and bade one of his gentlemen personate him.

No one ever knew whom he would choose to personate, for he never spoke in his own character.

I let him begin, and followed you unseen to Heidelberg, meaning to personate an artist.

Why not personate an enemy, and pretend that celestial interference has frustrated my schemes?

But he only imitates men, leaving it to another to personate birds, beasts, and serpents.

It would seem that, after his departure, an adventurer, attempting to personate him, met with his death.

That once known to you, his fellow twin could never personate him and deceive you."

The second veto for canvassers which was printed on the little card said that you must not persuade any one to personate a voter.

As the crowning act in the great drama of deception, Satan himself will personate Christ.

You must personate the Bleeding Nun, truly?

Your arrows' properties, (to keep decorum,) Cupid, are suited, it should seem, to the nature of him you personate.

Steve devises a plan that requires Roger to personate as a teenage girl from New Jersey.

He is granted a reprieve, and goes in search of Amis, who engages to personate him in the combat.

She loved those books, and seemed by instinct to understand and personate the humor and pathos of many of those grotesque creations.

He counterfeits mortality so cleverly that he (the ghost) has been known to personate a candidate for honours, and pass an examination for him.

It had been agreed that, in their escape, she was to personate the character of a Creole lady, and Emmeline that of her servant.

"Yes, if I feel inclined to do so," answered Michael Strogoff, in a tone somewhat too sharp for the simple merchant he wished to personate.

She had no accomplished lady to personate: Grace had spoken herself--her father's letter spoke also in the plainest terms--of her neglected education.

There you were doomed to personate the Aztec god Tezcat, and were rescued by us when we captured the great teocalli.

No doubt her mother admitted her through one of those easily-opened front windows, cut her hair and put her to bed to personate her brother without delay.

The knights as Mark approached laid their plan that Daguenet should personate Sir Launcelot of the Lake, and challenge the Cornish knight.

White-Mouse flung off her dark cloak and stood there in shining white, looking like a ghost in the moonlight; indeed, I believe her object was to personate a ghost.

He is to aid me in the onslaught, and he and his followers will personate the outlaws, from whom my valorous arm is, after changing my garb, to rescue the lady."