Such dreams as these fitted him in after life to be the glorious dreamer of the Pilgrim's Progress, in which a dream is told which doubtless embodies some of those which terrified him in the night visions of his youth.
And whether at the moment fully conscious of this or not, his act of some twenty years later illustrates and embodies that teaching; and that teaching again universalizes and brings home to us this action.
He was Society: Society that was to be preserved because it embodies Civilization.
He is made to replace Odoacer as the enemy of Dietrich of Bern, his nephew, and his history is related in the Norse Vilkina or Thidrekssaga, which chiefly embodies German tradition.
The scale adopted by the Institute of Estate and House Agents embodies the rates usually charged.
Goethe's hero embodies this second, romantic emancipation of the mind, too long an unwilling pupil of Christian tradition.
These he sometimes leaves general and pale, calling them ideas; but at other times he embodies them in deities, or in detailed imaginary constructions, like that of his Republic.
Lourdes he might abandon to you, though it embodies a marvellous weapon of government; but he will never forgive you for being on the side of the little ones of the world, and for pronouncing against the temporal power.
Asa's experience embodies a truth which is substantially fulfilled in nations and in individuals; for obedience brings rest, often outward tranquillity, always inward calm.
The previous clause, at all events, embodies a well-known metaphor of the Old Testament.
Mordecai is a kind of duplicate of Joseph, and embodies valuable lessons.
Law is the machinery for its realization and is vital only as it expresses and embodies it.
As the bill has proceeded through the committee it has taken on a nonpartisan character, and both Republicans and Democrats have joined in a measure which embodies many sound principles of tax reform.
This convention has been pending before the Senate for two years; I hope the United States this year will join the other nations of the hemisphere in ratifying a convention which embodies principles that are our tradition.
This State embodies not a homogeneous conception, but a series of often absolutely contradictory conceptions of "what is true, etc.
The inimitable Sir Roger embodies the true comic spirit; though Addison's own attempt at comedy was not successful.
This exemplary person not only embodiesthe type of middle class Briton but represents his most romantic aspirations.
This party embodiesthe dissatisfaction of the man of business with the old system which cramped his energies.
On the other side, it means that the literature must be produced by the class which embodies the really vital and powerful currents of thought which are moulding society.
Burns embodies the sentiment, though without any conscious reference to theories philosophical or historical.
This sketch embodies indeed the very poetry of débris, and comes nearer than any other poem has done to expressing the pathos and picturesqueness of a low-class pawnshop.
If the ideal can confront particular desires and put them to shame, that happens only because the ideal is the object of a more profound and voluminous desire and embodies the good which they blindly and perhaps deviously pursue.
It becomes good in so far as the inevitable adjustment of political forces which it embodiesis also a just provision for all the human interests which it creates or affects.
Thus art, while by its subject it may betray the preoccupations among which it springs up, embodies a new and quite innocent interest.
Similarly a Dantesque conception of hell and paradise embodies in living detail the innocent apologue in the gospel about a separation of the sheep from the goats.
No one but Shakespeare can embody, out of Saxo Grammaticus, the story of Hamlet as Shakespeare did: but every one models some kind of story out of it; every one embodies it better or worse.
What is poetry, but the thoughts and words in which emotion spontaneously embodies itself?
Of course no individual poem embodies this ideal perfectly; of course every human word and phrase has its imperfections, and if we choose an instance to illustrate that ideal, the instance has scarcely a fair chance.
Schellingism, the 'Philosophy of Nature', is indeed a constant tradition in the history of thought; it embodies a permanent type of the speculative temper.
This is the time that produced the Worcester chartulary, the Rochester chartulary, the Peterborough chronicle which embodies the privileges of the house, and the Winton chartulary.
The translation of Orosius embodies a considerable piece of original matter.
This is the fullest of all extant Chronicles; it embodies most of the contents of the others, and it adds the largest quantity of new and original history.
The third book really appeared before either of the two works just mentioned, andembodies the best work of the author in his most highly idealistic period.
The standard has often been criticised as narrow; yet it embodies a large and fundamental element of truth.
The list is not mine, although it embodies some of my suggestions.
In the naive form of a folk tale, it doubtless embodies the observations of a seeing eye, in a country and time when the little jackal and the great alligator were even more vivid images of certain human characters than they now are.
In short, the human race embodies love to the soul, before the universe (which embodies law) is yet apprehended.
To the latter class of offenders belong the Titans, who most pointedly represent the element of Force in the ancient traditions, while Ἄτη embodies that of Guile.
But his poetry embodies much that is pure and beautiful and true, much of which Burns had no occasion to repent, even on a deathbed, and much of which his native country may well be proud.
Achilles with his "destructive wrath," embodies the spirit of youth and eager passion corresponding to the lightning and the storm which are shown by the serpents on Athena's breast.
Odysseus embodies the virtue of temperance and patience symbolized by the cloudless sky, represented by Athena's robe, and of perseverance shown by her unstooping helmet.
It gives insight into human character, embodies the poetry of every-day life, and reveals the mysteries of the human heart, as possibly no other literary form can do.
The Early History of the Grail is a British legend, and embodies the national and schismatic aspirations of the British Church.
This prologue is certainly not Chrestien's work; but there is no reason to doubt that it embodies a genuine tradition, and affords valuable hints for a reconstruction of the original form of the story.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "embodies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
