In the lower animal-creation many analogous capacities are found, which depend for their vivification on some external agency over which they have no control.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"
Marcus Dods
Here again that process of "vivification," which has been so often dwelt on, makes an astonishing progress-the blood and colour of the novel, which distinguish it from the more statuesque narrative, are supplied, if indirectly yet sufficiently and, in comparison with previous examples, amply.
"The English Novel"
George Saintsbury
But most of all is the regular progress of vivification visible in the dialogue.
"The English Novel"
George Saintsbury