personations

_ -- Ask the children to write "personations" of birds, as if the writer were the bird.

Bird Day; How to prepare for it Charles Almanzo Babcock

Shapps' hacks and personations and uploads to his YouTube page were all clearly intended to support his own party.

Iain Dale's Diary: The Trials of Being Harriet Harman 2008

Shapps' hacks and personations and uploads to his YouTube page were all clearly intended to support his own party.

Archive 2008-04-27 2008

But smaller artists than Mademoiselle Rachel have sometimes had recourse to curious expedients to give their dramatic personations a show at reality.

International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850 Various

It is one which can be easily formed, and contains ten figures, five of which are men dressed to represent banditti; the other personations are an old gentleman, his daughter, a young officer and wife, and coachman.

Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants James H. Head

A varied program of essays, orations, recitations and personations, with musical selections of choruses from composers of high rank, all occupying fully two and a half solid hours -- these made the crowning event of the twenty-seven years 'work of Le Moyne Normal Institute.

The American Missionary — Volume 52, No. 3, September, 1898 Various

It is but a few months since the culture and distinction of Boston nightly crowded a small and inferior theatre, to witness the personations of the young genius who is destined at no distant day to rival the proudest names of the drama.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 Various

One of the most interesting features of a Bird Day program will be the personations of birds.

Bird Day; How to prepare for it Charles Almanzo Babcock

By the by, we are well pleased to see our English friend's preference for mind over matter, in the way of _dramatic_ personations.

The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 Various

[119] Thus the sexual emotions of men created that grammatical gender which has contributed so powerfully to our later mythology, and has therefore been mistaken for the author of our male and female personations.

Moon Lore Timothy Harley