In her white apron, faultless neck handkerchief and nicely fitting, but plain dress, Mrs. Harcourt looked the impersonation of contented happiness.

While Carlyle sees in Goethe the impersonation of human wisdom,in every aspect a success, outwardly and inwardly, serene and potent as an Olympian deity,he sees in Burns a highly gifted genius also, but yet a wreck and a failure; a man broken down by the force of that degrading habit which unfortunately and peculiarly and even mysteriously robs a man of all dignity, all honor, and all sense of shame.

Considering how much of allegory entered into the composition of the Greek mythology, it is probable that in representing the infant Bacchus holding a pine, the ancient sculptors intended an impersonation of the circumstance of resin being employed to preserve new wine.

Where shall we seek this highest, holiest impersonation!

He did not even assume the cold dignity which Washington felt it necessary to put on, but shook hands, told stories, and uttered jokes, as if he were without office on the prairies of Illinois; yet all the while resolute in purpose and invincible in spirit,an impersonation of logical intellect before which everybody succumbed, as firm, when he saw his way clear, as Bismarck himself.

As he had spiritualized the impersonations of Bion, so he now spiritualizes those of Moschus.

She might be not much of an alienist, as Dr. Irechester had been kind enough to suggest to Mr. Naylor, but she had seen such cases herselfeven stranger ones, where even higher Powers suffered impersonation, with effects still more tragically absurd to onlookers.

He maintains that if an actor should really show a character in such light that we could not tell the impersonation from the reality, the stage would lose its interest.

Without attempting the sublime impersonation of the deity, in which Phidias excelled, he was unsurpassed in the softer graces and beauties of the human form, especially in female figures.

Never before this journey into Hidden Creek had time meant anything to Sheila but a series of incidents, occupations, or emotions; now first she understood the Greek impersonation of the dancing hours.

" We gave our forty-seventh impersonation of a pair of starfish, and then legged it for the apparent shelter of the houses.