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They are reactions which have long proved advantageous to the phylum of which the existent animal is the representative embodiment.
The material forces of Nature, or their vague embodiment in some northern pantheon, would then have stood behind his heroes.
Was that an epithet to apply to my highly conceived and, I believed, wonderfully carried out embodiment of filial anguish?
They demand a style as indeterminate, as vaguely suggestive, as inarticulate as the loose-knit dreams which are calling for embodiment.
There is, however, no distinctive embodiment of inspirational ideas or moods awakened by the Great Dominion or the New World.
What symbol could represent this matchless embodiment of all the activities, this tremendous success, this frenzied public interest?
None has equalled the Roman in the simple but inexorable embodiment in law of the principles pointed out by nature herself.
Still choking, still bellowing, he scrambled to his feet, an ungainly embodiment of mortal agitation, and ran for the door.
The moon shed a ghostly light across the heath, rendering desolation visible, and giving a spiritual embodiment to every shrub.
All other and earlier materials for the embodiment and preservation of literature were eventually superseded by the manufacture of paper.
Priscilla's eye followed Peggy on her way, blushing, laughing, and looking to Priscilla's fond eyes the embodiment of girlish loveliness.
Had earned for him some angry disapproval, and caused him to be regarded as the embodiment of the detested laissez-faire principle.
For the origin of Jones we must look to Jonah, who in nautical history is regarded as the embodiment of malevolence at sea.
Law is a miserly extract of custom, a meager selection from its variety, a concentration and embodiment of its surging vagueness.
There was a disposition to find in the South Sea savages or American Indians an embodiment of the fancied state of nature.
Peter's, though extravagantly praised by so many visitors, is but the visible embodiment of the vulgar splendor of later Catholicism.
In some forms of sublimity, again, the sensuous embodiment seems threatening to break in its effort to express what appears in it.
He stared amazed at Angeline, who seemed the embodiment of self-possession, lifting her dainty, proud little gray head higher and higher.
They felt that he was the embodiment of the patriotism, love of romantic exploit, and soaring ambition of the Great Russians.
He is the embodiment of the strength and purity of youth, untroubled by the moment, independent of place and of circumstance.
She looked the very embodiment of delicately-nurtured, serene, English womanhood, and so the colonel thought as his eyes fell upon her.
Like the Creed, whose truths it teaches and enforces, it grew up gradually as the outcome and embodiment of her devotional life.
It will perhaps be sufficient for our purpose here if we say that poetry is the embodiment in metrical, imaginative language of passionate emotion.
A satire upon such an embodiment of kingship is impossible, the simple and truthful characteristics being more effective than fiction or exaggeration.
With his low forehead, small head, and splendid neck, the embodiment of strength, Trajan looks down on us somewhat scornfully.
The news thus suddenly sprung upon her transformed her at once from an angel of mildness into an embodiment of just indignation.
Could this be the countenance of which he was so proud, and which, his admirers said, was the embodiment of respectability?
Now he had found its almost perfect embodiment in this girl, in whom innocence, purity, youth, and beauty were inextricably mingled.
You may come to see that the desire of your deepest heart would have been frustrated by having what seemed its embodiment then.
These verities of our religion have their foundation in the teachings of our Great Redeemer himself, who is the very embodiment of all Truth.
One or two sailing vessels and skiffs added animation to the charming foreground, and the whole seemed an embodiment of tranquil beauty.
The massive pile impresses even the casual observer as a type of permanency, and the embodiment of the stable and the durable.
The belief in vampires is the quintessential concentration and embodiment of all the passion of fear in Hungary and the adjacent regions.
Now, many thoughts are incapable of sensuous embodiment; they appear as abstractions to the philosophical intellect or as dogmas to the theological understanding.
Leaning easily against the worn masonry of the balustrade, slight, lithe and graceful, she was the embodiment of vitality in repose.
It was not a ferocious boar, or revengeful elephant; it was a bulky, heavily breathing figure that seemed the embodiment of prosaic reality.
Schubert was one of the leaders of the romantic school, but his romanticism found its most complete embodiment in his songs.
Economic crises threatened the world because of war preparations, the while sentiment against war's devastation found concrete embodiment in arbitrated disputes.
Esmeralda, who had been to him the embodiment of purity and honor, loved Norman, and had brought dishonor upon her husband.
His most notable opposite is Harold Lloyd, a man of no tenderness, of no philosophy, the embodiment of American cheek and indefatigable energy.
Rose, watching the little scene with listless eyes, saw him towering over the group like an embodiment of wrath and pity.
A carriage rolled up, and there sprang from the box a muffled figure which resolved itself into the very embodiment of haste.
"And when may we expect to be favored with the presence of this paragon of perfection, and embodiment of all wisdom, papa?"
The embodiment was majestic, tender, pitiable, transcendent, but its color was the somber color of pensive melancholy and sad experience.
You are both the embodiment of delicacy and refinement, artistic taste and sensitiveness, without one element of robust physique or business ability.
If the substance be vital, then its embodiment is artistically successful to the degree in which the maker has felt his experiences.
To construe a mere symbol into a realized embodiment of the virtue symbolized were surely as easy in this case as in that of the Eucharist.
Frankly he thought at first that this was an apparition, a vivid embodiment of the fevered fancies which had been haunting him.
As she stood for a moment beside the sacred stone, she appeared to the gazing bystanders the embodiment of grace and modesty.
A few cows had come to the pond and stood in one section thereof, the embodiment of contentment, leisurely tinkling their bells.
Within a twelvemonth, the "Constitution," most happily apt of all names ever given to a ship, became the embodiment of this verified prediction.
Channing and Horace Greeley, illustrating the position that Association is the truly consistent embodiment in practice of the professed principles of our nation.
If human personality ever took evident and conscious shape and form, then Lincoln is an open and easily approachable illustration of its embodiment.
His ignorant admirers knew no way of accounting for such extraordinary qualities but to suppose him to be the embodiment of infinite wisdom.
His landscapes, with their deep verdure, their powerful animals, and their skies traversed by heavy clouds, are the embodiment of power.
It was a virile, as well as a pathetic, embodiment of a firmly drawn but not too sympathetic, and, consequently, very difficult character.
The wood carver appeared to be a man approaching forty, of medium height and stocky build, the embodiment of good health and good humor.
He will be considered the most perfect embodiment of the national qualities for his indomitable energy and perseverance and his exalted gallantry.
In any case coral is a "giver of life" and as such identified with a maiden, as the most potential embodiment of life-giving force.
Surely this embodiment of respectability and the sense of property could not wish to bring such a slur on his own sister!
She recalled nothing sensual or even sensuous in the dances she saw that season, only "the very ecstasy and embodiment of grace."
Where did the evangelists get such an embodiment of two attitudes so unlike each other, and which we so seldom see united in fact?
The devastating flood of feudalism would soon have swept everything under but for the appearance of that strange embodiment of power, Napoleon Bonaparte.
The present book may be regarded, as its name implies, as the result and the embodiment of the afterthoughts of that hazardous journey.
Then there arose one of the forces that shattered his life, beginning its embodiment in an idyll, ending quickly in a lurid tragedy.
It was the very embodiment of tragic supplication, and yet, in the look it fixed on me, there was a cold, merciless mockery.
She seemed to me the embodiment of sweetness and refinement, and I could not imagine her doing anything that was gross or impure.
She is in fact the very embodiment of all that is correct and conventional (I almost said and dull) in the English character.
He was the very embodiment of an emotion that was not overburdened with scruples, and of an impulse which hardly troubled to think.
In every direction broad meadows stretch away to the horizon where numberless cattle roam and are the embodiment of bovine happiness and contentment.
The lawless and fantastic shapes of his own imagination need, even for their own perfect embodiment, the discipline of the common perception.
He was rightly called Alfred the Great, since he was the embodiment of whatever was best and bravest in the English character.
It is, to older players, quite amazing how readily a youngster will fall into a swing that is the embodiment of grace and ease.
The Harvester went down the hall and into the office on the run, and his face appeared like a materialized embodiment of living joy.
And, all animated and glowing with his enthusiasm, he eyed the chandelier above him as if it were the embodiment of his own sagacity.
She was as absolutely one with nature as though she were a dancing sunbeam, or the brief embodiment of the joy of the wind.
In all the years past this same gay little Juliette had stood with her friends as embodiment of life and vividness and enthusiasm.
The little fawns, which could not have been more than six weeks or two months old, were the embodiment of grace and lightness.
Walton, to my mind, stands as a perfect embodiment of all the mingled tragedy and triumph of this great process of suburb overthrow.
If the new embodiment of the rule of force in human affairs is to be effectually overcome, it can only be by the same means.
He is the type and embodiment of beauty, strength, and freedom of motion combined with endurance, courage, zeal, fidelity, constancy, and uncompromising affection.
To whom should we look for aid and complicity in our concealed and wary work but to the embodiment of permanent and domestic corruption?
She seemed the embodiment of goodness, as well as beauty and grace, for did she not repress his tendencies to be a little fast?
The Yahoo is the embodiment of the bestial element in man; and Swift in his wrath takes the bestial for the predominating element.
The true poem is the embodiment of what can be expressed in no other way than by that especial combination of idea, suggestion, and sound.
He was a master of pathos and ferocity, and could at once attract or repel by the strange realism of his embodiment of either emotion.
The entire world of particular existence, from the most exalted embodiment of mind to the most insignificant natural fact, finds a place here.
In former times he was popularly regarded as the visible embodiment of the Creator, and the delegated exponent of all knowledge, revealed or acquired.
On the side of the fire toward the door towered one who looked a very embodiment of the warlike young manhood of the race of Odin.
The Torah to the rabbis was the embodiment of the Wisdom which the writer of Proverbs had glorified, and it takes its prerogatives.
Form is not to be unduly magnified by itself; it is excellent only when it is a fitting embodiment of the thought and feeling expressed.
For ethics, as was long ago remarked, is related to morals as geometry to carpentry: the one is a science, the other its practical embodiment.
The work of art, the first embodiment of absolute mind, shows a sensuous conformity between the idea and the reality in which it is expressed.
For the first time she sat before him a living, breathing, alluring woman, and not the embodiment of all that was coldly intellectual.
He had been busy with a fresh embodiment of his favorite subject, into which he had sketched the form of the student as the sufferer.
All these individual "souls" of human, animal, vegetable, planetary embodiment, are confronted by the same objective mystery and surrounded by the same ethereal "medium."
Each of them had absolute certainty of execution, and each of them could float across the stage the embodiment of grace, exquisite in its ethereal delicacy.
Nothing was lawless, so it was argued, when directed, in self-defense, against the representatives of a system that was the embodiment of bloodthirsty lawlessness.
It was to unthinking youth that the flashing sarcasms and stinging flings at established usages and sacred traditions appeared the embodiment of brilliant repartee.
Accordingly, their real passions find only ideal vents in fervent longings and dreams, in music, prayer, and faith, or embodiment in industry and beneficence.