'personation' -- it was a mask and a sounding-pipe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2] Reference

He has recently exemplified this by his personation of CLAUDE.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 07, May 14, 1870] Reference

He called the several faculties, gods, in his beautiful personation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Representative Men] Reference

In May a man was arrested on suspicion of aiding and abetting personation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lost former Labour Clr Mohammed Najib - A latter day Scarlet Pimpernel - The Return.] Reference

This leads him to the odd view that every personation is a different person.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personation and Personated Things] Reference

This was his punishment for the part he had taken in the fraudulent personation of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swirling Waters] Reference

More vote-rigging using dodgy postal ballots and personation at the polling booths?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Labour votes in marginals collapsing] Reference

Where Hobbes goes wrong, I think, is in thinking that personhood just is personation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personation and Personated Things] Reference

At the close of your personation the hearers may vote upon the name of the bird presented.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bird Day; How to prepare for it] Reference

For one thing, nothing in Hobbes's account privileges one form of personation over another.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personation and Personated Things] Reference

August 1803, charged with personation and forgery, and was found guilty and sentenced to death.    From Wordnik.com.  [Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton] Reference

The most important form of personation from Hobbes's perspective is representation in a person.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personation and Personated Things] Reference

"I wonder what he thought of his own personation of Orosmane when he witnessed the real tragedy?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876] Reference

Grace, as she entered the room, he appeared to be a personation of parsondom in its severest aspect.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Chronicle of Barset] Reference

Who does not thank William the Great for Falstaff, and Hackett for his personation of the fat knight?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature] Reference

And the whole Game at Chesse incident with its supposed personation of the Spanish king supports that idea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sacraments on Stage?] Reference

This sister is made the personation of Love, the younger of Faith, with one hand on an open book, and the boy of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference

There was no attempt to unpick the sorry Tory mess of personation, manipulation, intimidation, treating and all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tory Transparency: The Emperor Penguin's New Clothes are being laundered says Guido] Reference

The nineteenth, who was, as a school-girl, the very personation of energy, looks forward to years of useful labor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Education of American Girls] Reference

There is something very ludicrous in the specimens of inanimate personation mentioned by DICKENS in one of his sketches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference

All votes traceable in the case of a legal need to do so - over allegations of box stuffing, PV fiddling, personation etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voted Conservative] Reference

Bingham thought the man was just any kind of low spy at first, but when they claimed him for personation, Bingham just laughed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Imperialist] Reference

The change of voice in personation in public reading is of great importance, but is generally overlooked, or but little practiced.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Canadian Elocutionist] Reference

A jury at Birmingham Crown Court took just over an hour to unanimously agree that Hussain was guilty on two counts of personation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-20] Reference

That people rose and left the house in a very passion of tears is the fittest criticism that can be bestowed upon this personation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876] Reference

The Ballot Act not only abolished public nominations of candidates, but dealt with the offence of personation and the expenses of elections.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

In these psalms, the persons are the writer himself and a band of Levites, -- or sometimes the Supreme Being, or a personation of the Messiah.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859] Reference

Digital signatures are sometimes required in the army to prevent personation; the general in command at Wenchow enforces it on all his troops.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882] Reference

Imagination -- so Haco seemed the personation of Worldly Wisdom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete] Reference

Endowed with mind, she is its living and marvellous personation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pascal] Reference

Peschiera, entered, looking the very personation of anxiety and fatigue.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Novel — Complete] Reference

Christie's sole difficulty was in carrying out his personation of a pilgrim.    From Wordnik.com.  [Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century] Reference

Probably there are still Old Conservatives who would prefer the personation of us by boys. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference

Yet, acting itself is delightful; nothing so entertains us as mimicry, the personation of character.    From Wordnik.com.  [Backlog Studies] Reference

Within a month they were tried and condemned together -- the one for personation; both for conspiracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time] Reference

The 18-year-old could face up to up to five years in prison as well as a fine if convicted of "cheating by personation".    From Wordnik.com.  [My Sinchew -] Reference