Superhuman strength animating him for a moment he struggled up, his swart face stiffening, his eyes flashing.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard
On these nights Mounts Bay has a most animating appearance although not equal to what was annually witnessed at the beginning of the present century when the whole coast from the Land's End to the Lizard, wherever a town or a village existed, was lighted up with these stationary or moving fires....
"Cornwall"
G. E. Mitton
If the world be made good through good-will, then the faith of moral action is rational; but if the world be good because whatever is must be good, then moral action is a tread-mill, and its attendant and animating faith only self-deception.
"The Approach to Philosophy"
Ralph Barton Perry