vivifying

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It was curiously vivifying, and in it the diamonded atoms of light shook and danced I stepped out of the car, the Russian following, and began to ascend the curved steps toward the opening, at the top of which O'Keefe and Olaf already stood.

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  • Arid let it not be overlooked that this was the time of Poland's intellectual renascence—a time when the influence of man over man is greater than at other times, he being, as it were, charged with a kind of vivifying electricity. —  Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician, Volume 1
  • By means of the system of caste this influence pervaded the whole social fabric, not as a vivifying leaven, but as a deadly poison. —  Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion
  • The truth which it conveys is much more likely, therefore, to find its way securely into the mind, and to lie there ready for the vivifying touch of the Spirit of God I emphasize this matter of style, for in many quarters it is much neglected, and some of my younger Brethren do, if I mistake not, entertain the thought that the simplicity of the Gospel is best set forth, and God most honoured, where plans and methods of language are neglected. —  To My Younger Brethren Chapters on Pastoral Life and Work
  • On the whole it seems most likely that he represents the sun, as the vivifying power in nature, though some[6] think that he was originally an abstraction of the vivifying forces in the world and later became connected with the sun. —  Hindu Gods And Heroes Studies in the History of the Religion of India
  • On this particular point Verena never responded, in the liberal way I have mentioned, without asseverating at the same time that what she desired most in the world was to prove (the picture Olive had held up from the first) that a woman could live on persistently, clinging to a great, vivifying, redemptory idea, without the help of a man. —  The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II)
 

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