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Example sentences for "personated"

Lexicographically close words:
personalty; personam; personarum; personas; personate; personates; personating; personation; personations; personators
  1. They commenced: one of the men, dressed ridiculously as a child, personated the Nuwab.

  2. The men came, six stout fellows dressed fantastically, two of them as women, with sitars and drums in their hands; they personated a body of Goosaeens, and danced and sang in a ridiculous manner.

  3. Since that time it has been so completely disfigured by Mr. Charles Bannister being disguised in the character of Polly, and Macheath personated by Mrs. Cargill, etc.

  4. The nine small pigs were supposed to represent various members of the critic tribe, while Duncan, who was in spectacles, personated Doctor Easley.

  5. Oh, you have outwitted me," he said bitterly, "but you will never be able to prove it was not Warburton who personated the Sailor that night.

  6. Time seemed always personated in the imagination of our philosopher, and with time he wrestled with a consciousness of triumph.

  7. The subject is usually "The Skeleton" in the act of leading all ranks and conditions to the grave, personated after nature, and in the strict costume of the times.

  8. It was afterward learned that his clerk, twenty-five years dead, had all the time been personated by a twin brother, who was an idiot from birth and knew no law.

  9. The moment he had fulfilled the duties of his office, he personated no longer the man of power: he had then cast off all sternness, all airs of State, and all rigour.

  10. And, as personated in the beautiful Adonis, he is fabled as being mutilated in his genital parts by the boar; that is, by similitude, he is deprived of his genial or generative power over Nature during the winter.

  11. Many persons gathered around Andrews, who here, as always, personated the conductor of our train, and showered upon him many curious and somewhat suspicious questions.

  12. In several of the characters which I have related to you, I apprehend I have sometimes forgot myself, and considered myself as really interested as I was when I personated them on earth.

  13. She personated the goddess of taste; and men would pay their loud and daring homage to the divinity.

  14. Another letter shall inform you, in what manner I discovered him; for the personated hermit is your Mr. Murden.

  15. He is crowning an Emperor, who kneels before him, two Cardinals attending, one of whom is ludicrously personated by Death.

  16. The Duc d'Orleans personated hurry and, passion in speaking to the Queen, yet would whistle half an hour together with the utmost indolence.

  17. Mask of dog or jackal worn by priest who personated Anubis, vi.

  18. Goat, the, personated by a man wearing goat's horns at Christmas in Sweden, viii.

  19. Sandwich Islands (Hawaii), the king personated the god in the, i.

  20. A very tame lion was at another menagerie taken out of his cage and taught to crouch at the feet of a lady who personated Britannia.

  21. One of his exhibitions included a black tiger, a colour rarely met with in that animal; and a sort of drama was got up in which the lion-king personated Moroff, a brute-tamer.

  22. The two pairs of serpentine lines indicate the river banks, while the character between them is the Otter, here personated by the Midē´.

  23. Moore mentions that Lord Edward and Neilson were stopped, at midnight, by the patrol at Palmerstown; but the former having personated a doctor hurrying to the relief of a patient, both were suffered to resume their journey.

  24. An agent was sent to him who assumed the name of Smythe and professed to be a clergyman, but who was so little conversant with the character he personated that he wore a clerical gown and lawyer's bands.

  25. Cloridia, or the Rites of Cloris and her Nymphs, personated in a Masque at court, by the Queen and her Ladies, at Shrove Tide, 1630.

  26. The reference probably is to the scene in the dream-temple, where Liana personated Idoine, Cycle 78.


  27. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "personated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.