| 单词 | personation |
| 例句 | No cases of personation - where someone pretends to be another person, in order to vote - were reported during this year's elections. ID rules stopped 14,000 people voting, watchdog finds 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z But, with up to a quarter of people still unaware of the change, critics say the risks of the move outweigh the benefits given a low incidence of voter personation fraud. New voter ID requirement sparks concern ahead of English elections 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z He is charged with carrying a weapon or explosive on an aircraft and false personation of an officer or employee of the United States. AWOL Army soldier tried to bring gun on flight, claimed to be law enforcement officer, prosecutors say 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z Stewart was arrested on Sept. 19 on charges of false personation and criminal restraint. Man accused of pulling over vehicle, impersonating officer 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z Buraglia is charged with three felony counts of conspiracy and false personation. Sheriff’s investigator, recruit charged in application scam 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z The former Marine, Brandon Magnan, 37, of Naples, Florida, was charged on Jan. 6 with false personation of an officer or employee of the United States, according to a criminal complaint by the Secret Service. Former Marine posed as security member for Trump’s Marine One, officials say 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z Magnan was held on charges of "false personation of an officer or employee of the United States," the newspaper reported. Florida man arrested after allegedly lying to bypass presidential security at Palm Beach Airport 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z But if you vote as anyone else - living, dead or fictitious - you would be committing an offence called personation, the Electoral Commission said. What's to stop me voting as someone else? 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z A grand jury in New Mexico indicted 44-year-old James Christopher Benvie last week on two counts of false personation of a U.S. officer or employee. Prosecutors say member of armed border group is flight risk 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z Federal prosecutors in New Mexico say an indictment returned Wednesday by a grand jury in that state charged 44-year-old James Christopher Benvie with two counts of false personation of a U.S. officer or employee. Member of armed border group indicted for impersonation 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z She says the false personation charge was “bogus.” Transgender woman sues over ‘false personation’ arrest 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z He earlier pleaded not guilty to criminal possession of stolen property, false personation, and an outstanding warrant. NY man faces upgraded charges in crash that killed 5 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z In cases of suspected personation the poll clerk reports the matter to the returning officer, who tells the police. What's to stop me voting as someone else? 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z He was charged with criminal possession of stolen property, false personation, and an outstanding warrant. Long Island man pleads not guilty in crash that killed 5 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z The 46-year-old man pleaded guilty in May to false personation of U.S. citizenship, fraud and misuse of visas and other offenses. Man gets prison for trafficking identities of US citizens 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z Officers said they were investigating one case of "personation". Election 2015: Vote fraud investigation in Glasgow East seat - BBC News 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z He was charged with possession of drugs without a prescription with the intent to sell, holding a fake ID, false personation and resisting an officer without violence. Correction: Treasure Hunter Fugitive story 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z He was arrested on false personation and other charges. Teen’s fake ID at NY bar: Claiming to be officer, police say 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z Daniel was never charged as the local prosecutor decided that “false personation” could only be committed in the flesh rather than through cyberspace. Illinois judge rules police entitled to Swat raid over parody Twitter account 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z Massamba currently is being held on pending false pretense and false personation charges. Inmate accused of pouring hot coffee on man 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z It is that which becomes true to the imagination and heart through its vivid personation of character which is accepted, not the bare facts. Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals 2011-11-20T03:00:14.840Z Jarrett would not, however, consent to my even alternating with Lucca in the part; but possibly he was wise in this as Marguerite was never one of her best personations. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z Yes, Kitty, darling; your face is as black as a crow; and would enable you to make a splendid personation of an Ethiopian vocalist, if that sable people ever exhibit their ladies. Fern Vale (Volume 3) or the Queensland Squatter 2011-09-30T02:00:17.137Z 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 Very Naughty Girl 2011-07-27T02:00:30.947Z An early Christian sect, called Ophites, worshipped it as the personation of natural knowledge. Tablets 2011-07-25T02:00:17.487Z The clever personations of Garrick were suggested by his curious observations of men and manners. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z What do you imagine he has had offered by ladies who, from sacred and selfish motives, under the influence of his personation of the Christ, were ready to make any sacrifice? On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z But G. P. is only one of several trance personations speaking through Mrs Piper's organism and recognised by friends. Occultism and Common-Sense 2011-07-16T02:00:14.303Z But I warn you that personation and blackmail are felonies in this country, and not only very severely punishable but generally very severely punished. The Red Derelict 2011-07-05T02:00:30.143Z If we accept his abstract personations merely as the names, and not the qualities of the dramatic personages, “Magnificence” approaches to the true vein of comedy. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z He scoffed altogether at the suggestion, of which Mr. Hawtrey told me you were the author, that it was a case of personation, but these two cases staggered him. Dorothy's Double Volume II (of 3) 2011-05-29T02:00:06.640Z "Then there is still more reason to know her, that her personality may complete what her personation lacked." On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z Bribery, treating, undue influence, and personation by agents, were alleged. Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 2011-05-25T02:00:19.650Z All forms of false personation, for the purpose of obtaining the property of others, are made penal by express statute. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z Immense is the effect of this concentration—still more marvellous that of the personation with which it is attended. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 2011-04-01T02:00:28.747Z In India, Sir William Herschel desired to use finger-prints in the courts of the Hugli district to prevent false personation and fix the identity upon the executants of documents. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z We have always fancied Hamlet to be a closer translation of Shakespeare’s own character than any other of his personations. The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z Bribery, treating, personation, and other matters were alleged. Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 2011-05-25T02:00:19.650Z The false personation of voters at an election is a misdemeanour punishable with imprisonment and hard labour, for a term not exceeding two years. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z Beginning with the meaning, origin, and use of the word Gentleman, Mr. Calvert gives a critical analysis of its historical personation. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 2011-02-11T03:00:30.570Z I am not for the personation of aught requiring such rules. William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z By Giovanni's personation of Roland, Linton escaped all the hazard of letting others into his confidence, while the sailor himself, in a few days more, would leave the country—never to return. Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) An eye-witness describes her light form, rising scarcely above the middle size, as seeming in its faultless symmetry to float rather than to move—the very personation of Grace. Lives of Celebrated Women Her voice was high and thin, but was used with consummate skill and delicacy, and her interpretation of the r�le of Marguerite, in "Faust," was considered a most complete and delightful personation. Famous Singers of To-day and Yesterday These offences include not only treating, undue influence, bribery and personation, but certain others, of which the following are the chief. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 4 "England" to "English Finance" "I hope I 'll be able to remember all he said," muttered he, as he fancied himself amusing some choice company by a personation of the Yankee. One Of Them Her ideas of Juliet, of Ophelia, of Rosalind, and Cleopatra were her own, and she never varied them; the very earnestness of her personations made the effect all the more extraordinary. Anne By my personation of Harpar, I was securing that poor fellow's escape, and giving him ample time to get over the Austrian frontier, and many a mile away from the beaks of the Double Eagle. A Day's Ride A Life's Romance Personation and aiding, abetting, &c., of personation are felonies punishable with two years’ imprisonment with hard labour. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" Officially stamped photographs are placed on every document which passes into a man's possession, so that there can never be cases of personation, such as I believe have happened many years ago. Scotland Yard The methods and organisation of the Metropolitan Police Sir Pitt Crawley, coarse, uneducated, sordid, quarrelsome, his small, sharp mind an epitome of vulgar shrewdness, is a personation to force laughter from the lungs of a misanthrope. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 5 November 1848 She went through her personations timidly, the wild forest her background, the open air and blue Straits her scenery. Anne I was not much flattered by the depreciating tone in which he dismissed my efforts at personation, and walked on for some time without speaking. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. Donovan and Van Dorn present a striking contrast, but they are good friends, and the latter’s personation of the former, on a certain occasion, is a standing joke between them. The Award of Justice Or, Told in the Rockies A Pen Picture of the West Then they always act as personation agents, and they order people who can read and write to say they can't do either. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule 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. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History He would not carry his personation any further. The Traitors There was more than one who recalled the gay young André and his personations during the liveliest winter Philadelphia had ever known. A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia The Ballot Act not only abolished public nominations of candidates, but dealt with the offence of personation and the expenses of elections. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Another idea, more excusable, but equally preposterous, is, that grammatical gender has been the cause of the male and female personation of deities, when really it has been the result. Moon Lore There was no personal ridicule or mimicry of any living creature, but merely the personation or type of a bygone class, that had survived the fashion of its day. Spare Hours At first I thought that it was a trap—that Domiloff was preparing some revenge for my personation of the King. The Traitors Perhaps you don't know that there's an offence known as 'false personation with intent to defraud,' and that it's a felony. Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers Endowed with mind, she is its living and marvellous personation. Pascal 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 These personations never lost me a friend; on the contrary, they originated friendships that cease only with life. Spare Hours Christie's sole difficulty was in carrying out his personation of a pilgrim. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century Within a month they were tried and condemned together—the one for personation; both for conspiracy. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time It may be that Mr. Wheatley’s fine personation of Danny Mann, the leading part, made me think so, but it was a fact nevertheless. Some Reminiscences of old Victoria It was followed by the Guild farce of Mr. Nightingale's Diary, in which besides the performers named, and Dickens in his old personation part, the manager's youngest daughter and Mr. Frank Stone assisted. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete It was as follows:— As to the personation of votes, there should have been no allegation made. Ralph the Heir This sister is made the personation of Love, the younger of Faith, with one hand on an open book, and the boy of Hope, bearing a pomegranate flower in his hand. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 There is something very ludicrous in the specimens of inanimate personation mentioned by Dickens in one of his sketches. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 In class five, falsehood comprises simple falsehoods, forgery, personation, and perjury; again distributable like the private offences. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics The answer to this question is contained in the answer to the further question: 'What could have been the object of the personation?' The Eye of Osiris Her personation of Romeo was beautiful and even pathetic. The Arena Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891 How far such a personation is consistent with truth and righteousness may be reasonably questioned. Out in the Forty-Five Duncan Keith's Vow No one but a genius in criminality would have risked such a dramatic move as the personation of Jack Talbot, or dared to put in an open appearance at the Grand Hotel. The Albert Gate Mystery Being Further Adventures of Reginald Brett, Barrister Detective I at first imagined it was someone O'Gorman had sent down here to help Josie, but none of our boys would undertake such a spectacular personation, bound to attract attention. Mary Louise in the Country And the marvel was that in none of his personations had he yet been caught. Patsy The gentleman whom I am going to introduce to the notice of my readers was the purest personation of benevolence that perhaps ever existed. Rattlin the Reefer The surgeon actually started when I made my appearance, and acknowledged that the personation was exact. Percival Keene Personations of birds.—Ask the children to write "personations" of birds, as if the writer were the bird. Bird Day; How to prepare for it "I'm all of a personation," gasped the child. Prudy Keeping House Roger Bontemps, the personation of contentment with his station in life, and of the buoyancy of good hope. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 I also told him of the personation of myself that I understood was then going on at the Hall, at the same time totally suppressing every other guilty circumstance of Daunton’s life. Rattlin the Reefer As he was clothed in the dress of the spirit, he believed that it would be better to present himself boldly to their view, and trust for safety to his personation of the good Manitou. Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 At the close of your personation the hearers may vote upon the name of the bird presented. Bird Day; How to prepare for it Some of them, namely, seem to include elements of super-normal knowledge; others to show a curious subconscious mania for personation and deception; others again to be mere drivel. Memories and Studies His personation of an American Herr in great trouble of mind was an entire failure, except as illustrating the national apathy of countenance when under the influence of strong emotion. A Fearful Responsibility and Other Stories "Mr. Lindenwood," said she, turning to Edgar, "though we have never met before, your vivid personations on the stage to-day have caused you to seem more like an old friend than a comparative stranger." Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems 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. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 One of the most interesting features of a Bird Day program will be the personations of birds. Bird Day; How to prepare for it Our subconscious region seems, as a rule, to be dominated either by a crazy "will to make-believe," or by some curious external force impelling us to personation. Memories and Studies "I charge that man with abduction and personation," he cried, and his voice grew husky with wrath. One Wonderful Night A Romance of New York The personation is conventional, rather than literal, in intent. The North American Indian 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 But note the subtlety of the personation and environment. Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers Her waist was slender, her hands and feet were nimble and delicate, and her dress fitted her so neatly that she looked the personation of trimness. A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett From the most ordinary deception and personation, up to forgery and murder, every device is resorted to that could be of service in the achievement of the end which Chanakya had determined for himself. Tales from the Hindu Dramatists Similar personations appear in other ceremonies, but they figure less prominently. The North American Indian There was even an adventurous instant in which she leaped at actual personation, and she looked in rapture at the vivid risk of the thing before she abandoned it as involving too much. Hilda A Story of Calcutta Grisi had fixed the ideal of this personation by investing it with an Oriental passion and luxury of style; but this did not stay the ambition of the d�butante of fifteen years. Great Singers, Second Series Malibran To Titiens He was brought to trial at the Cumberland assizes on the 15th of August 1803, charged with personation and forgery, and was found guilty and sentenced to death. Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton Except in scenes and sentiments of pathos, where she had lost nothing, the last, fine, evanishing tints, the delicate aroma of the character, were wanting in her personation. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 His excellent personation of old men acquired for him, before he had reached the meridian of life, the title of 'Old Jefferson.' Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made Her dress was an exquisite personation of the stars and stripes, from the crown of stars on her golden brown hair, to the gaily ribboned white satin slipper. Idle Hour Stories Titiens's admirable personation of Alice," observes the critic of a leading daily paper, "must raise her to a still higher rank in public estimation than that she has hitherto so long sustained. Great Singers, Second Series Malibran To Titiens The latter singer, indeed, and her father, whose personation of the Sergeant was very remarkable, were among the first to perform the work in the United States. The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers His brilliant virtuosity in the personation of other minds threatened to check all simple utterance of his own. Robert Browning His personation of the rough, eccentric, but true-hearted Yankee was regarded as one of the finest pieces of acting ever witnessed on the American stage, and drew crowded houses wherever he went. Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made He smiled as he thought how sincerely Elfrida would detest such a personation. A Daughter of To-Day "I wonder what he thought of his own personation of Orosmane when he witnessed the real tragedy?" Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 In such a personation, make-up becomes a serious part of art. Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory 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 There is nearly the same amount of genius, art, experience, and intelligence in its personation. Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made That people rose and left the house in a very passion of tears is the fittest criticism that can be bestowed upon this personation. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 Her personation of "Desdemona" is exquisite, and the thrilling tones of her voice were in perfect harmony with the deep sensibility she evinced in every look and movement. The Idler in France Iamblichus next tackles the difficult question of imposition and personation by spirits. Cock Lane and Common-Sense The mind's eye has the privilege of poetry to imagine the presence; the personation is therefore legitimate to the sister art. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 331, May, 1843 It's a sure case—and simple when you see it in the light of your knowledge; a case of common personation. Dead Men's Money To the majority of persons, the wearing of spectacles for the purpose of disguise or personation, seems a perfectly simple and easy proceeding. The Mystery of 31 New Inn It had come to the knowledge of the government that there had been several cases of personation in the competitive examinations recently instituted both for the military and civil services. Bred in the Bone Your cleverness has indeed been great, and your personation of the Siddha wonderful. Hindoo Tales Or, the Adventures of Ten Princes 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. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 331, May, 1843 Strangers often think this statue a personation of the force which in a few brief generations has erected from a wilderness our vast and splendid America. The Second Generation To him, personation is easy; and, moreover, an actor is precisely the person to whom the idea of disguise and impersonation would occur. The Mystery of 31 New Inn 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. The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I 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. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 At Yea, on the other hand, the personation and robbery would ever after be attributed to a member of the gang that had waylaid and murdered the new manager with that very object. The Amateur Cracksman It is not his instinct to put on a mask, even for purposes of artistic personation, and much less of affectation. Poems He was an industrious and thoughtful player, who gave careful attention to the little matters of mimicry and personation and seldom failed to please. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller In these psalms, the persons are the writer himself and a band of Levites,—or sometimes the Supreme Being, or a personation of the Messiah. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 Digital signatures are sometimes required in the army to prevent personation; the general in command at Wenchow enforces it on all his troops. Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882 The want of the spectacle was this, and it is, we fully grant, the defect of all her similar personations: you felt that it was only intellect feigning heart, though with perfect success. Literary and Social Essays The change of voice in personation in public reading is of great importance, but is generally overlooked, or but little practiced. The Canadian Elocutionist The personation of Israel as a woman runs through the whole of this second portion of Isaiah's prophecy. Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah In that personation he had haunted Boris as effectively as if he had been the very ghost of the boy murdered at Uglich, haunted and tortured, and finally broken him so that he died. The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series A person unable to write, the form of signature which defies personation or repudiation is required in certain domestic cases, as in the sale of children or women. Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882 The personation which had been intended to deceive me, was an act of revenge; planned between herself and the blackguard who had employed her to make his lie look like truth. Heart and Science A Story of the Present Time The man, not reckoning on an onlooker at so late an hour, began an elaborate and amusing schedule of personation. Windy McPherson's Son And so, throughout the Netherlands, at the end of the fifteenth century and the beginning of the sixteenth, we find the allegorical drama giving way to more definite and direct personations. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 36, October, 1860 It is generally at night that they go through their personations, and when they have dressed for their part, they generally choose a moment when your attention is attracted by a cunning diversion. Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter When we applaud the personations of a great actor, we exclaim, as the highest praise, "How true to Nature!" The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 Imitation -- N. imitation; copying &c. v.; transcription; repetition, duplication, reduplication; quotation; reproduction; mimeograph, xerox, facsimile; reprint, offprint. mockery, mimicry; simulation, impersonation, personation; representation &c. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases The answer to this question is contained in the answer to the further question: What could have been the object of the personation? The Vanishing Man If you are imaginatively representing the feelings of another, as in some playful exaggeration or some dramatic personation, the truth required of you is imaginative truth, not your personal views and feelings. The Principles of Success in Literature A poem of ideal love under a human personation. Adonais Miss Faucit's voice is fine and impassioned, being deep for a female voice; but in this organ lay also the only blemish of her personation. Note Book of an English Opium-Eater He called the several faculties, gods, in his beautiful personation. Representative Men "Yes," he said, "I have heard of Miss Max, and of her wonderful powers of personation; and I have always regretted not having seen her while she was on the stage." Stories by English Authors: England She came back to the stage renewed and invigorated, and with still more of that depth of feeling and atmosphere of soul wich had so enriched her personations before. Winding Paths Bingham thought the man was just any kind of low spy at first, but when they claimed him for personation, Bingham just laughed. The Imperialist It may be a case of bullying personation. An African Millionaire Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay "Faith, an' it's him that knows," remarked Mike, who had invited himself to a free seat in the menagerie, and assisted in the applause which had greeted each personation. Helen's Babies He was sufficiently well dressed to pass for a gentleman—but there were obstacles in his face and manner to a successful personation of the character. Jezebel's Daughter But if they had owned all the land they secured for M'Gregor, by perjury, and personation, and straightforward dummyism, they would have been little squatters themselves. Such Is Life This eulogium paints in distinct colours what should be the personation of Hamlet on the stage. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 365, April 11, 1829 I played the intimate and ardent friend, and this was simply part of my personation. The Rise of David Levinsky This man, indeed, seemed the very personation of animal sensual life. Zanoni 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. Mrs. Skagg's Husbands and Other Stories These personations represent to the Hopi mind their idea of the appearance of these katchinas or clan ancients. The Grand Canyon of Arizona; how to see it "Yes," he said, "I have heard of Miss Max and of her wonderful powers of personation—and I have always regretted not having seen her while she was on the stage." Little Novels The question is only what our aim is, and whether we are capable of a "convincing personation." The Rise of David Levinsky An allegory is a personation of distinct and definite things,—virtues or qualities,—and the key can be given easily; but a writer who conveys typical meanings, may express them in myriads. Zanoni Her personation of boy characters, her dancing of the "champion jig," were particularly dwelt upon with fervid but unmistakable admiration. Mrs. Skagg's Husbands and Other Stories It is an almost universal idea of primitive man," says Fewkes, "that prayers should be addressed to personations of the beings worshipped. The Grand Canyon of Arizona; how to see it The 'one subject' prohibited to Mercy as sternly as ever is still the subject of the personation of Grace Roseberry! The New Magdalen She remarked, as she pursued the retrospect, how strangely Chance, or Fate, had paved the way for the act of personation, in the first place. The New Magdalen How marvelously easy of accomplishment the act of personation had been! The New Magdalen To her mind the personation of Grace Roseberry had suddenly assumed a new aspect: the aspect of a fatality. The New Magdalen Have you never read of cases of false personation, in newspapers and books? The New Magdalen |
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