The principal feature of the ball was a grand procession of the guests, headed by the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, the former personating Charles V.
The first example of the abbreviated ballet skirt, reaching to the knee, is given in the portrait of an actress personating Le Zephyr, about the middle of the 18th century.
The next article of my indictment was for forgery; and for personating of Lady Betty and my cousin Charlotte.
Came the forgery, and personating charges again; and we were upon the point of renewing out quarrel, before we could get to the next charge: which was still worse.
The Ladies vowed never to forgive the personating part.
Such was my position when the possibility of personating Miss Roseberry first forced itself on my mind.
It is only the truth to say that the cultivation which has made me capable of personating a lady was her work.
But John was personating Jeffrey and was made up to resemble him very closely.
We have now set up the proposition that John Blackmore was the tenant of New Inn and that he was personating Jeffrey.
As the evidence stands, we have proved that Jeffrey Blackmore was a prisoner in the house in Kennington Lane and that some one was personating him at New Inn.
I have always had an objection to ladies personating Romeo, but I waived that feeling in favor of Miss Cushman.
Florence is now personating with the Jefferson combination).
They might as well have hanged him; or, the actor deserved hanging for so personating the character,--which the reader likes best.
Such a person was very unfit for a coadjutor with men who were so busied in qualifying themselves for personating the characters of others, that they had no leisure for any attention to their own.
He was quite capable, too, of jumping to the conclusion that the man he had met had murdered and was personating me; and in a belief of the kind he was just the man to raise the hue and cry in every police office on the Continent.
Siberia at least, if it was discovered that I had been personating a Russian officer and fighting duels in his name.
The leader of the game commences by stating, “I have compiled a dictionary,” and if he is personating a German, before proceeding further he must give that clue.
And if he is personating a Frenchman he must be equally helpful.
He began to think that some person, from evil design or love of mischief, must be personating Frederick Massingbird.
It had not occurred to him to personate Frederick's ghost; he had only thought of personating Frederick himself; but to his unbounded satisfaction, he found the former climax arrived at.
The--the party that appears to be personating Frederick Massingbird.
So he went in person to that minister's son, who was personating an ascetic, and asked him how he ought to punish Padmavati; and by his advice he ordered her to be banished from the city, though her parents lamented over her.
When the cowherd said this, the Brahman Rudrasoma took from him the stick and the rug, and stood there, personating him.
We can suggest that somebody is personating the real king.
I have seen Mr. Cooke personating the character of Sir Pertinax McSycophant in 'The Man of the World,' in a buff coat of antique cut, and an embroidered waistcoat which might have figured in the court of Charles II.
I believe that he is personating some one else, and is afraid of being recognized by those who know.
I believe," I answered, "that he is personating some one, or rather I have believed it.
The republican succeeded inpersonating a high Tory.
The atheist succeeded in personating a high Churchman.
Later in the day Shanley exchanged clothes with Mrs. John Jaques, and, personating her, walked out of the prison.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "personating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
