93 examples of vivify in sentences

Then describe the land through figures of speech which will vivify its outward appearance or its emotional significance to the owner.

In narration you must vivify emotional torpor; but lest in your efforts to inveigle boredom you yourself should induce it, you must have a wary eye for signals of distress.

(1) Revive, survival, convivial, vivid, vivify, vivacious, vivisection; (2) vive (le roi), qui vive, bon vivant, tableau vivant.

This is to deny the power of the Spirit to vivify our physical or mental faculties, which is illogical if we consider that it is the same Spirit that brought us into any existence at all.

My love was sent to vivify her life, Not to imperil, and to make no claim Of her but her unfolding; to remind Her soul of its immortal heritage, And teach her joy,she knew but merriment.

A new and better spirit must vivify schools and colleges and philanthropic enterprises than that which has prevailed in older nations.

Few persons have the poetic imagination of Mr. Choate, that can vivify the dead lines and combine the complex features.

He grapples with sophistries and scatters them to the winds; both reason and passion vivify him.

render strong &c adj.; give strength &c n.; strengthen, invigorate, brace, nerve, fortify, sustain, harden, case harden, steel, gird; screw up, wind up, set up; gird up one's loins, brace up one's loins; recruit, set on one's legs; vivify; refresh &c 689; refect^; reinforce, reenforce &c (restore) 660.

give birth to &c (produce) 161; bring to life, put into life, vitalize; vivify, vivificate^; reanimate &c (restore) 660; keep alive, keep body and soul together, keep the wolf from the door; support life.

Warmth is the vivifying influence of the universe, and the warm heart is the source of noble deeds.

The Madonna is vivifying; the Child is nearer childhood; we can believe that here are veins with blood in them.

At the same time that the company were charged to promote, and, by means of their funds, to vivify the agriculture and industry of these provinces, the necessary powers and facilities to enable them to reap the fruits of their sacrifices were withheld.

Antony but made believe and magnified uncommonlyand his dream of vivifying white plaster was perhaps less desperate than the dreams of some, that would breathe the breath of life into the colder clay of some beloved woman, who seems spontaneously to live but is dead all the while.

They live by Thee, and yet they live without thinking on Thee; or, rather, they die by the Fountain of Life for want of quenching their drought in that vivifying stream; for what greater death can there be than not to know Thee, O Lord?

Integrity is the crowning virtue,integrity is the pervading principle which ought to regulate, guide, control, and vivify every impulse, device, and action.

In the true commonwealth, these, so far from being mutually destructive or antagonistic, incessantly beget and vivify each other; so that Law is the expression and guaranty of Freedom, while Freedom flows spontaneously into the forms of Justice.

"The energy of a Tacon is much needed to vivify the police of New Orleans.

"The energy of a Tacon is much needed to vivify the police of New Orleans.

The German people has always been incapable of great acts for the common interest except under the irresistible pressure of external conditions, as in the rising of 1813, or under the leadership of powerful personalities, who knew how to arouse the enthusiasm of the masses, to stir the German spirit to its depths, to vivify the idea of nationality, and force conflicting aspirations into concentration and union.

your work is vanity and vexation of spirit, unless the reader's brain choose to receive and vivify the hieroglyphs of your ideas; think yourselves successful because a great man praises you, and to-morrow that man is twisted with dyspepsia, or some woman passes him without a smile, and your sparkling sketch, your pathetic poem are declared trash!

Thy heart is rich enough to vivify Itself.

In presence of these climacteric catastrophes which waste and vivify civilisation, one is slow to judge detail.

As though to vivify this hallucination, the dying moon suddenly plunged behind a cloud, lighting the landscape but by strange lugubrious streaks, and in the distance behind us a long low rumble warned me that my dream might soon be a terrible reality.

It beautifies, but it does not vivify or fructify.

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