He looked the very personification of impotent viciousness; the incarnation of devilish rage.

The daring with which Hebel countrifies (or, rather, farmerizes, to translate Goethe'sword more literally) the spirit of natural objects, carrying his personifications to that point where the imaginative borders on the grotesque, is perhaps his strongest characteristic.

In 1783, the young Count de Mirabeau, pleading for the restitution of his conjugal rights, put the question to the judges at Aix before whom he was arguing, "Which of you, if he desired to consecrate a living personification of justice, and to embellish it with all the charms of beauty, would not set up the august image of our queen?" She and her husband might well have felt they were bound to act up to such a eulogy.

Dante is defending his personification of Love as one walking, speaking and laughing on the assumption that as a poet he is licensed to use figures or rhetorical colorings.

Wordsworth effected a wholesome deliverance when he attacked the artificial diction, the personifications, the allegories, the antitheses, the barren rhymes and monotonous metres, which the reigning taste had approved.

He walked slowly forward, his face immutable, his eyes fixed steadily before him, measured, inexorable, the very personification of Destiny.

The Ten Words were given as the statutes of Jehovah himself the personification of some form of nature's force.

There was one old man dressed in white, carrying a scythe, who imagined himself the personification of "Time," though called "Father Lampson."

16.If what is called personification, does not always imply a change of gender and an ascription of sex, neither does a mere ascription of sex to what is literally of no sex, necessarily imply a personification; for there may be sex without personality, as we see in brute animals.

The light from Mr. Kingsbury's windows shone upon the path, and the whole result of this conference so longed for, was a burst of tears from the perplexed and mortified Ellen, who sprang from Mr. Horner's attempts to detain her, rushed into the house without vouchsafing him a word of adieu, and left him standing, no bad personification of Orpheus, after the last hopeless flitting of his Eurydice.

In fact, though one thus speaks of her as so potent a personification, she has of course never had any real existence.

The Portrait That Was Not a Portrait Aaron King was putting the last touches to his portrait of the woman whoConrad Lagrange saidwas the personification of the age.

The solitary tourist will ejaculate his exclamations without number; and it is under such circumstances that the unpoetical soul seeks some personification to whom it may do homage.

In you, sir, we behold a personification of that great principle which forms the corner stone of our own revered Constitutionthe right of self-government.

As I came around the corner I saw sitting there on my steps the very personification of Ruin, a tumble-down, dilapidated wreck of manhood.