body forth
Example Sentences
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She was sure she saw him; for her imagination could not body forth features charged with such a fiendish expression, or eyes of such unearthly lustre.
From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by Ainsworth, William Harrison
To body forth, to give from or shape to mentally.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
These are things, these are realities; and these Mr. Pitt has neither the imagination to body forth, nor the sensibility to feel for.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. by Various
To body forth the spirit of Christian knighthood in existing poetic forms; to wed that old sentiment to modern thoughts, was a task which he could not attempt.
From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)
And for a little time—for "forty days"—the electric air seems often to body forth that luminous shape.
From The Chief End of Man by Merriam, George Spring
