personating

• She never looked up, never noticed me, but knelt there like a ministering angel-- personating for a time a girl whom we had never seen My little girl," he added, with a low laugh, and drew out another hairpin In a few moments all her hair was about her shoulders. —  Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories
• Neither the play nor the playing that I saw at the theatre when the actor was hissed for the wickedness of the villain he was personating, was at all fine; and yet I perceived, on reflection, that they had achieved a supreme effect. —  Literature and Life (Complete)
• He did not expect to overtake the man he had been personating, but fortune was kinder than is usual in such cases, and, owing to a delay caused by some accident to a freight train, he arrived in Chicago within a couple of hours of Mr. Fairbrother, and started out of that city on the same train. —  The Woman in the Alcove
• The man personating Naiyenesgony had his body and limbs painted black. —  Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891
• In personating D'Ambois, hee'le appeare —  Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois

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