Whether he was enthusiast or impostor may remain an open question.
Catharine was probably an impostor rather than an enthusiast, and seems to have escaped the Inquisition.
There are those who are ready to doubt your identity on the score of your ignorance of that strange event in your life, Lady Vera--some who would insinuate that you are an impostor and have no right to the title you bear.
Mrs. Cleveland and her daughter declare you to be an impostor whom the Earl of Fairvale has palmed off as his child.
She is an impostor whom Lawrence Campbell put into the place of his dead daughter," Ivy screams, impetuously, clinging to him with both hands.
For when Leslie finds that Vera will not live with him, and when Mr. Gilmore's lawyers prove her to be the adventuress and impostor that she is, he will return to me, and I shall be his wife again.
Suppose," continued the slave, "that this impostorhad fastened his own name on your son?
She was perfectly well satisfied that an impostor had taken possession of the sultan's heart, as the unfortunate youth who had been dragged away, had often appeared in her dreams as her son.
I will never forgive you, Julian, for bringing that crazy impostorinto my house.
Go down on your knees and acknowledge yourself an impostor before them all.
She said the name of the impostor was Mercy Merrick.
There were people at the Hospital who thought them highly suspicious--people who warned me that I might find an impostor in my place.
Only let me meet her face to face" (she had said), "and I will make her confess herself the impostor that she is!
I ask you, as a just man, do you doubt now that the woman on the sofa in the next room is an impostor who has taken my place?
She told a tiresome story about her having been robbed of her papers and her name by an impostor who had personated her.
But it is this which has made the christian Israel more of an impostor than its prototype, in every country to which it came steadily developing to a hypocritical imitator of the Esau whose birthright it stole by baptism.
Gentlemen, this is the true one; the other is an impostor who ought to be chastised.
Must I indeed suffer the martyrdom of listening to all that this impostor has just said to my face, my arms bound, though his words drive me mad?
Our duty is not doubtful, the impostor ought to bite the dust at our hands; but this perfect resemblance hides him between you two; and it is too hazardous a stroke to undertake in the dark.
I told him nothing of my visit to Alderman Pooley, but my only fear was that, with the report of the bogus Professor's speech appearing in the papers, the impostor had become alarmed and again made himself scarce.
As an impostor he was, it seemed, shameless and bold beyond human credence.
But further, my dear wife, whose knowledge of the impostor was so amazing, was also missing.
So the impostorwas anxious to meet me--doubly anxious, no doubt, because he was aware that I knew the truth of poor Greer's death.
She herself had seen her father dead, yet was now actually assisting the impostorto keep up the fiction that he was still alive!
This man is the impostor--the impostor who wrote to my wife, and enticed her from her home.
An impostor is passing himself off as Greer," I declared.
My wife Mabel had, before her disappearance, been in communication with the impostor whom Ethelwynn had apparently taken under her protection.
You mean that I should have profited pecuniarily by concealing the fact that Professor Greer is dead and that an impostorhas assumed his identity?
It was evident that the impostor passing himself off as the Professor had taken my telegram purporting to come from Kirk as a warning, and had escaped.
The impostor had actually had the audacity to lecture before a Birmingham audience!
Before I spoke I would unmask this impostor and his "agent," Kershaw Kirk.
Yet, for some purpose that was yet a complete enigma, she was protecting the impostor who had stepped into the dead man's shoes.
The impostorwas also well aware of the many perforated stones that exist in Scotland, not referred to by Dr.
Time and distance seemed to be conquered in that mysterious ascension, and an impenetrable darkness enveloped the impostor as he felt himself carried swiftly through the atmosphere.
By these means, he ultimately became the most astonishing impostor the world had ever beheld, with the solitary exception of Mohammed.
This circumstance no doubt occasionally gave an opportunity to an artful impostor to account for his miscarriage, and thus to prevail upon his credulous dupe to enable him to begin his tedious experiment again.
He finally pronounces the Old Chronicle to be the compilation of a Jewish or Christian impostor of the third century, or later.
Bunsen pronounces the Old Chronicle to be the compilation of a Jewish or Christian impostor of the third century ('Eusebius appearing on all occasions as the authority,' &c.
Whether he be an impostor or not, I know not; but this much I know, whereas I was blind, now I see!
He may be anything, an impostor or a high-mightiness.
So with these qualities, and the friends they create for a man, get to work, Dalby, and let's hunt this impostor out of the country.
Take back that garden key, woman, how do you know but that this impostor may some day be master here, and you require it for your secret visits to the manor-house?
The ancient soothsayer might be an impostor in everything, but he was none the less dangerous for that.
Only afterwards, when he had himself received a special revelation concerning Hananiah, did he denounce him as an impostor and a false prophet.
Well, I will say nothing of the Speech one way nor other, but sure it was an act neither generous nor christian-like, to raise up an Impostor to disturb the silence of a Gentleman's Grave that had paid his last debt to Justice.
How could an impostor so far surpass the combined wisdom of seventeen centuries as to originate a system diverse from every other system under heaven, and yet harmonise with the system of Jesus and his apostles in every particular?
There is one thing connected with Joseph Smith's message which will at once prove him to be an impostor or else a true prophet.
An impostor might indeed make such a promise to his followers, but they never would realize a fulfilment of it.
The author was subsequently condemned as an impostor by the Queen's commissioners, deposed from his ministry, and condemned to a long term of imprisonment with further punishment to follow.
The impostor Joseph Francis Borri was a very different character.
An impostor carried on a similar trade in the neighbourhood of Tunbridge Wells, about the year 1830.
She was informed by this ignorant impostor that her husband's disorder was an infliction of the devil, occasioned by his next-door neighbours, who had made use of certain charms for that purpose.
It is consoling to think that this impostor perished in his own snare.
But in the course of the summer, the cunningimpostor was arrested; and it was the evidence of the parties themselves on his trial which gave publicity to the story!
There is no species of supernatural power to which some impostor or other has not pretended; some to incombustibility; some to insubmergeability; some to invulnerability; some to invisibility.
Before the discovery of all this, the impostor had contrived to reap a plentiful harvest.
To the most impartial eyes it began to appear as though Columbus were either an impostor or a fool.
Yes, the fellow can shoot; he's less of an impostor than I expected.
Could she care for that showy impostor posed at her feet, gazing up at her with passionate eyes--hanging on her accents--openly worshipping her?
