imbody

Ever as I sang, the veil was uplifted; ever as I sang, the signs of life grew; till, when the eyes dawned upon me, it was with that sunrise of splendour which my feeble song attempted to re-imbody.

Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women 1905

But the tendency of life in the open air is to make the soul imbody and imbrute, and after a while one begins to think scholarship a disease, or, at any rate, a bad habit; and the Scythian nomad, or, if you choose, the Texan cowboy, seems to be the normal, healthy type.

The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915 1877

Ever as I sang, the veil was uplifted; ever as I sang, the signs of life grew; till, when the eyes dawned upon me, it was with that sunrise of splendour which my feeble song attempted to re-imbody.

Phantastes, a Faerie Romance for Men and Women George MacDonald 1864

DEAR SIR, -- It is now about five months since you expressed to me a wish that I might be induced to imbody, in a few pages, my views on the peculiar interest I attached -- as you had been informed by a common friend -- to the most popular German novel of the age, Gustav Freytag's

Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag Gustav Freytag 1855

We feel that great events are being enacted; that greater still are in preparation; and we long for an epic, a world-moulding epic, to imbody and depict them.

Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag Gustav Freytag 1855

But the Active Intellect, the creative power, -- the power to put these shapes and images in art, to imbody the indefinite, and render perfect, is his alone.

Hyperion Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1844

Intellect, the creative power, — the power to put these shapes and images in art, to imbody the indefinite, and render perfect, is his alone.

Hyperion 1839

In that moment the nature of the man grew active, and the contrast between the two would claim the art of the painter to imbody to the eye, and the strong imagination, only, could depict it to the mind of one not beholding it.

The Partisan: A Tale of the Revolution. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. In Two Volumes. Vol. II 1835

The evidence is closed -- the testimony now irrefutable -- and imagination, however audacious in her own province, only ventures to imbody and model those features of

The Partisan: A Tale of the Revolution. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. In Two Volumes. Vol. I 1835

Experiment Invites me to Represent to you, that Though there were either Saline, or Sulphureous, or Terrestrial Portions of Matter, whose parts were so small, so firmly united together, or of a figure so fit to make them cohere to one another, (as we see that in quicksilver broken into little Globes, the Parts brought to touch one another do immediately re-imbody) that neither the Fire, nor the usual

The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical; As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of another Discourse relating to the same Subject. Robert Boyle 1659