Sally is under the impression that sums of money that exist on the word of signed documents only, and whose materialisation can only be witnessed by bankers, are like fourpence, one of whose properties is that it is fourpence.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
X That inclination to the marvellous which belongs to creative temperaments led Paul to invest the stranger with the attributes of an apparition; he seemed to be a materialisation of the darkness which cloaked the modern world, a menace and a challenge; to stand for Lucifer.
"The Orchard of Tears"
Sax Rohmer
Though he was as yet too kind to admit it to himself, Beatrice was beginning to bore him, not merely by her sadness, which his absorption prevented his realising except in flashes, but by her very resemblance to the Image-of which, from having been the beloved original, she was, in his eyes, becoming an indifferent materialisation.
"The Worshipper of the Image"
Richard Le Gallienne