imbody
Americanverb (used with object)
Other Word Forms
- imbodiment noun
Example Sentences
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I have only sketched—sometimes perhaps with too fanciful a pencil, subjects of great importance, which, by being thus rendered popular, may induce abler pens to imbody them in a more permanent form.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
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.
From Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag by Freytag, Gustav
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.
From Hyperion by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
The lineaments are indeed true to nature, but no artist could catch the ever varying expression, or imbody that unrivalled grace, which threw a charm around her, more captivating even than her faultless beauty.
From The Rivals of Acadia An Old Story of the New World by Cheney, Harriet Vaughan
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