One child is of course obliged to sacrifice his inclinations and personate Christian.
At last it was resolved that he should personate her husband and gain her love.
Is there any one among your maids whom you could trust to personate you, who is sufficiently like you in height and color and so on to be mistaken for you by a stranger, knowing you only by description or having only seen you once?
The maid who was to personate her on the return ride from the reception was coached and drilled in every particular of her part; and every detail even of dress was most carefully considered and decided.
He goes on then to observe, how liable the people were, in this state of things, to be imposed on, and led into rebellion, by any one who was bold enough to take upon him to personate the prince expected.
This proved a temptation to some bold, and to some cunning men, to personatethe prince so much expected.
You may expect a parson, for this purpose, in a few days; but it is a sly artful fellow, of a broken attorney, that he has hired to personate a minister.
When the creatures have thus been solemnly brought to Zuni, they are placed in a bowl of water and dances are performed beside them by men in costume, who personate gods and goddesses.
To Stella To the Same To a Friend To a Young Lady, on her Birthday Epilogue intended to have been Spoken by a Lady who was to personate 'The Ghost of Hermione' The Young Author Friendship: an Ode.
In this class the circle personate both animate and inanimate objects.
Children never personate horses and cows, for instance, in the same manner.
When a youth is selected to personate the Kōk-kō he is instructed in regard to the decorating of the mask he is to wear.
Those who personate the Kōk-kō are endowed for the time being with their actual breath.
With an amount of assurance for which he had not given him credit, Corny had undertaken to personate his nautical relative, and was now actually on his way to the Gulf to take command of the Bronx.
It was a picture that she dared not let her mind rest on: how then could she personate it?
But he only imitates men, leaving it to another to personate birds, beasts, and serpents.
The knights as Mark approached laid their plan that Daguenet should personate Sir Launcelot of the Lake, and challenge the Cornish knight.
Bressant was the Tartuffe, and Madeleine Brohan was to personate Elmire.
Had Mounet-Sully been able to appreciate Othello" answered Rossi, "he never could have brought himself to personate Orosmane.
It is hard to personate and act a Part long; for where Truth is not at the bottom, Nature will always be endeavouring to return, and will peep out and betray her self one time or other.
It is no wonder if Alexander having been thus used not only to admire, but to personate Achilles, should think it glorious to imitate him in this piece of Cruelty and Extravagance.
Here my Rabbi stampt with Indignation; saying, What if you did personate a Jew?
Vivian was to act Ranger, Augustus Etherege was to personate Clarinda, because he was a fair boy and always blushing; and the rest of the characters found able representatives.
Others, however, arose; and although some of them perished on the scaffold, it was not until 1616 that Russia was freed from the last of the disturbing impostors who attempted to personate princes of the race of Ivan the Terrible.
But in a land such as France, it is not remarkable that the utmost should have been made of the mystery which surrounded the fate of the youthful dauphin, or that pretenders should have endeavoured to personate the son of Louis XVI.
After some search, the duchess found a stripling whom she thought had all the qualities requisite to personate the unfortunate prince.
At first it was the intention of the conspirators that he should personate Richard, duke of York, the second son of Edward IV.
