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Eventually, with the aid of the police and some airplanes, she saves her brother and wins the love of the detective who has been masquerading as a gangster.

From Time Magazine Archive

For twenty-five years he has been masquerading in false clothes and has now retired absolutely unknown to any living soul; and yet see him! stalking across the earth like a demi-god!

From Uncle Vanya by Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich

The authorities, naturally, have no suspicion of who it is has been masquerading as Lieutenant Baumgart; last spring no one had time to inquire into birth certificates and such-like details.

From Regina or the Sins of the Fathers by Sudermann, Hermann

Believe me, Sybil Berners has been masquerading all her life, and now for the first time appears in her true character—a ‘Fire Queen!’

From Cruel As The Grave by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte

“Why, your partner; that fellow who has been masquerading as a lord.”

From An Oregon Girl A Tale of American Life in the New West by Rice, Alfred Ernest