As she read, a new light seemed to illumine the page, caught from her recent experience of dramatic personation and scenic effects, limited and unsatisfactory though that experience had been.
Her personation of Miss Sinclair was as good as her personation of Audrey, and Evelyn became so excited that she very nearly spilt her chocolate.
A reception was accorded, and they came, having taken care to provide themselves with an engraved portrait of the scientist, to guard against a personation and waste of their respects.
I don't like it," and she shuddered slightly, but presently sat up in her chair with a most extraordinary personation of the old painter in manner, in the look out from under the brow and the pose of the head.
And let me here allude (if I can without indelicacy) to another sort of personation of more financial importance to myself.
It was as follows:-- As to the personation of votes, there should have been no allegation made.
Her specialty lay in the personation of youthful masculine character; as a gamin of the street she was irresistible, as a negro-dancer she carried the honest miner's heart by storm.
Her personation of boy characters, her dancing of the "champion jig," were particularly dwelt upon with fervid but unmistakable admiration.
The 'one subject' prohibited to Mercy as sternly as ever is still the subject of the personation of Grace Roseberry!
To her mind the personationof Grace Roseberry had suddenly assumed a new aspect: the aspect of a fatality.
How marvelously easy of accomplishment the act of personation had been!
This eulogium paints in distinct colours what should be the personation of Hamlet on the stage.
The danger of such a personation never occurred to her; Miss Hildreth was not one always on the outlook for danger-signals.
Mr. Munger had seen fit to taunt him with his frank acknowledgment of Miss Hildreth's personation of Adele Lamien; he had, indeed, made very merry over his childish logic.
Sung by Harry McCarthy throughout the Confederate States in his Personation Concerts.
Sung by Harry McCarthy, in his "Personation Concerts," in all the principal towns of the Confederacy.
He was probably led to make the suggestion by his knowledge of the resemblance borne by this person to the murdered prince, which was sufficiently close to make personation possible.
The entire personation is so complete and individualized that it is very difficult to select any particular scene as better than others, for Mr. Jefferson is so thorough an artist that he neglects not even the smallest detail.
Mr. Jefferson's personation is totally unlike anything on the modern stage.
He believes that an actor can never become too familiar with a part, never study it too much, and the result is that he plays just as conscientiously now, as he did when he commenced, and is constantly making the personation better.
With him, the stage is merely an accident and no more essential to his personation than it was to Irving's conception.
For the reason that hispersonation belongs to an entirely new school.
A tradition prevails that Elliston's robes were carried to America by Lucius Junius Booth, the actor, who long continued to assume them in his personation of Richard III.
Mars, an actress so idolized by the Parisians that her sixty years and great portliness of form were not thought hindrances to her personation of the youthful heroines of modern comedy and drama.
Curtis This is the personationof the Navaho God of Harvest.
The personation is conventional, rather than literal, in intent.
The subjects of that disease went through the same spasms, convulsions, and painful racking of the limbs which accompany such cases of this personation as are not designed deceptions.
She appears in the character of Red-Jacket, a popular personation upon these occasions,--it being very easy to talk Indian by the simple recipe of transposing the nominative and objective cases of the personal pronoun.
These qualities were even more apparent in his subsequent personation of Medea, in Robert Brough's parody of the Franco-Italian tragedy.
If Helena is Datchery, the "assumption" or personation is in the highest degree improbable, her whole bearing is quite out of her possibilities, and the personation is very absurd.
The mind's eye has the privilege of poetry to imagine the presence; the personation is therefore legitimate to the sister art.
The somewhat loose satin evening-dress, with the shepherdess's crook, was absurd enough; and no very great improvement upon the earlier taste of complimenting portraits with the personation of the heathen deities.
Were you, indeed, the Personation of The World, whose mean notions you mouth so calmly, I could not disdain you more.
I wonder what he thought of his own personation of Orosmane when he witnessed the real tragedy?
Bogumil Dawison in that character, I was so delighted with his personation that I gave up all thoughts of performing the part myself.
But you kept up your personationof the Prince," cried von Augener, seeing another point to be scored against me.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "personation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
