In the first stanza it seems indeed to shake the head gently, to put forward the chin, so to speak, so as to affirm the insufficiency of the senses to explain the dogma of the real presence, the finished avatar of the Bread.
"En Route"
J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
He cared no longer for Maltravers-he had put him to use-he could not be sorry for his departure, for that departure was the avatar of His appearance to a new world.
"Ernest Maltravers, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Sixty thousand persons, victims to the dark power in its first or its second avatar, attested the Titanic scale upon which it worked.
"Biographical Essays"
Thomas de Quincey