'But he needna hae gane aboot it in sic a playactor-like gait.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Falconer] Reference

"I didna ken ye," said Blue Peter, "in sic playactor kin 'o' claes.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Marquis of Lossie] Reference

"No; I wouldn't be willin 'to see you a playactor," he said, "walkin 'round in skin tights, with your face all painted up.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Calvary Alley] Reference

'I strove to transform myself into another man, and, like a playactor, to reassume the character, manners and emotions of a past period.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction] Reference

Stephen scripts Bloom as a tragic anti-hero, but Penelope, as much a storyteller as Stephen and a playactor as Bloom, does some improvising of her own (in true screwball fashion), and she just may be the rewrite he's been waiting for.    From Wordnik.com.  [GreenCine Daily] Reference

One time he would be a playactor, then a sutler or a welsher, then nought would keep him from the bearpit and the cocking main, then he was for the ocean sea or to hoof it on the roads with the romany folk, kidnapping a squire's heir by favour of moonlight or fecking maids 'linen or choking chicken behind a hedge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference

One time he would be a playactor, then a sutler or a welsher, then nought would keep him from the bearpit and the cocking main, then he was for the ocean sea or to hoof it on the roads with the romany folk, kidnapping a squire’s heir by favour of moonlight or fecking maids’ linen or choking chicken behind a hedge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference

Furious as the woman, however, was, she had yet enough of common sense remaining within her to dread skaith; so, apprehending the bursting storm, she had just taken to her heels, when out he came, rampauging after her like a Greenland bear, with a large liver in each hand; -- the one of which, after describing a circle round his head, flashed after her like lightning, and hearted her between the shoulders like a clap of thunder; while the other, as he was repeating the volley, slipping sideways from his fingers while he was driving it with all his force, played drive directly through the window where I was standing, and gave me such a yerk on the side of the head, that it could be compared to nothing else but the lines written on the stucco image of Shakspeare, the great playactor, on our parlour chimneypiece.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith] Reference