Perhaps she did; but, if so, it was always as something bodiless and mystic, a sort of dipping into a religious exaltation, conceiving of herself as a ministering sister of the poor, sexless and utterly unselfish.
"The Salamander"
Owen Johnson
Was it not a conclusive proof that my theory was correct, that this 'homme machine' received its intellectual fluid, its power of thought through itself, and not through this fabulous, bodiless something which metaphysicians call soul?
"Berlin and Sans-Souci"
Louise Muhlbach
Is it a phantom of air,-a bodiless, spectral illusion?
"The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow