The patient is in a state of trance, his body is watched, and it remains motionless, but his soul has migrated into the carcase of a wolf, which it vivifies, and in which it runs its course.
"The Book of Were-Wolves"
Sabine Baring-Gould
Picking and polishing words and phrases is ineffectual without the picking and polishing of the thoughts: below the surface of words lies that which controls and vivifies style.
"Essays Æsthetical"
George Calvert
But this is similarly and independently true of the imagination, the most familiar means with which man clothes and vivifies his convictions, the exuberance with which he plays about them and delights to confess them.
"The Approach to Philosophy"
Ralph Barton Perry