The listeners were deprived of seeing and hearing Ben Rogers "personate".    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 2] Reference

Abigail, and should personate the expected nephew?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 24, 1841] Reference

Would personate an elder who is just about to testify.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-21] Reference

Now, Aquilius, let us hear you personate the "vexed lover.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference

Did I not tell you that I would personate the Lady Barbara?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference

Supreme, beloved, who else could personate her so as to cheat him?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876] Reference

Assistance of the Confident, resolv'd to personate a Lady of the first.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tractus de Hermaphrodites Or, A Treatise of Hermaphrodites] Reference

I-- I could personate Lord Farquhart, at a pinch, until rescue came to me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference

Had they even employed his own discharged menial to personate him and entrap her?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The King's Warrant A Story of Old and New France] Reference

Strogoff, in a tone somewhat too sharp for the simple merchant he wished to personate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Strogoff] Reference

I was chosen president; a black man who waited on our berth was to personate the master.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sailor of King George] Reference

"My son, if a devil were to personate a goddess, it would become that goddess, in a way.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Calde of the Long Sun]

He had determined to assume the man's clothes, personate him, and risk the chances of an escape.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dock Rats of New York] Reference

Two undertake to personate a goodman and a goodwife; the rest a family of marriageable daughters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk] Reference

Demetrius, did nothing but personate him, like actors on a stage, in his pomp and outward majesty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference

In the Chester Mysteries a practical recommendation is made to the actors who personate the first couple.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference

The king, by way of joke, comsired the earl to personate him, and demanded the petitioner to be admitted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 543, Saturday, April 21, 1832.] Reference

He did not fare so badly either, for being plump and rosy he was allowed to personate the jolly Friar Tuck.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Big Front Door] Reference

Some of its divinities personate those beings that are supposed to reside in the various departments of nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moon Lore] Reference

He played upon the harp with more than common skill, and could personate the regular minnesinger to perfection.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Truce of God A Tale of the Eleventh Century] Reference

A young lad of six years of age, of fair complexion and long, light, curly hair, is required to personate Ishmael.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants] Reference

The prince of darkness doth frequently personate an angel of light, to draw the children of light again into darkness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reformed Pastor] Reference

One who undertakes to personate a character belonging to an age not his own hardly ever fails of manifest anachronisms.    From Wordnik.com.  [De Amicitia, Scipio's Dream] Reference

It was nothing less than to personate the French captain, and to lead my party across country just as he had been doing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow] Reference

He does not only personate on the stage, but sometimes in the street, for he is masked still in the habit of a gentleman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference

Seven small misses personate the fairies, and their costume consists of a short white dress, decorated with silver spangles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants] Reference

The players divide themselves into ladies and gentlemen, if the ladies predominate they must personate gentlemen, and vice versa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Games For All Occasions] Reference

After some search, the duchess found a stripling whom she thought had all the qualities requisite to personate the unfortunate prince.    From Wordnik.com.  [Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton] Reference

Since it was her daily business to personate exceptional individuals, it seemed to be her pleasure that night to be like everybody else.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Path of a Star] Reference

A rumour that the Earl of Warwick had escaped from the Tower gave an opportunity for an imposter, Lambert Simnel, to personate the earl.    From Wordnik.com.  [London and the Kingdom - Volume I] Reference

Claudius was directed to come in the habit of a singing girl, a character he could easily personate, being young and of a fair complexion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World] Reference

"I will personate the boy, Chu shall act the girl, and together we will fight the Demon and overthrow and kill him, and so deliver the people from his dreadful tyranny.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Chinese Folk-Lore Tales] Reference