The need of her answer to his love shook him to the depths, for it reached forward and back in his world-experience, calling into vague, drowsy, fluttering response things that would later awaken to full life, and reanimating the dim and beautiful instincts that are an heritage of that time when the soul is passing the lethe of earliest childhood and retains still a wavering iridescence of the glory from which it has come.
"The Adventures of Bobby Orde"
Stewart Edward White
She dropped her hand in his, and it was with a thrill of dismay that he felt the rush of passion reanimating his frozen veins.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith
The study of folk-lore and early beliefs makes it abundantly clear that in the distant past which I am now discussing no clear distinction was made between fertilization and vitalization, between bringing new life into being and reanimating the body which had once been alive.
"The Evolution of the Dragon"
G. Elliot Smith