Hence in classical art the sylvan deities are depicted in human shape, their woodland character being denoted by a branch or some equally obvious symbol.
But some of these black shadows have rushed forth in human shape.
There he lies stark and stiff, a human shape of ice, on the spot where Winter overtook him.
Carignano, as he contemplated the glorious loveliness of her looks: and then he pressed his lips to that mouth which was so voluptuously formed, and which rather resembled a luscious fruit than anything belonging to human shape.
And he saw that master, who was ever in the company of his friend Sasin, full of many marvellous magic ways, like the sky come down to earth in human shape.
He is warned by a winged creature in human shape to proceed no further, and descends again to earth.
And to-day, my prince, you have been guided here by fate, and have loosened the thread round my neck, and so I have recovered my human shape.
Then the king saw a terrible Rakshasa approaching, looking like Hades embodied in a human shape, with his cavernous mouth, black as night, opened wide.
Gwydion seeks for Llew, discovers him, and retransforms him to human shape.
He assumes different forms and lures the unwary to destruction, or he makes love in human shape to women, some of whom discover his true nature by seeing a piece of water-weed in his hair, and only escape with difficulty.
Satan in human Shape, or of human Creatures in the Devil's Shape, or in any other manner whatsoever.
He charges it to appear in human shape, which it did.
In these examples the corn-spirit is represented and eaten in human shape.
At another festival the Mexicans made little images inhuman shape to represent the cloud-capped mountains.
In other cases, though the new corn is not baked in loaves of human shape, still the solemn ceremonies with which it is eaten suffice to indicate that it is partaken of sacramentally, that is, as the body of the corn-spirit.
Alluding to the awful sufferings of Leighton, and all Christians of his time, under that bigoted demon in human shape, Laud.
Leighton by that fiend in human shape, Archbishop Laud.
Paup-Puk-Keewiss was again in human shape; again Manabozho pressed him hard.
He had been killed in different animal shapes; but now his body, in human shape, was crushed.
After skinning him and his flesh getting cold, his Jee-bi took its flight from the carcass, and he again found himself in human shape, with a bow and arrows.
Human shape no more The god permits his foolish ears to wear; But long extends them, and with hoary hairs Fills them within; and grants them power to move, From their foundation flexile.
Anyone who puts on a wolf-shirt is transformed into a wolf for this period and returns to human shape on the tenth day.
After each murder he said he had taken on human shape.
This gentleman, when he was back in human shape, was always heard to remark in surprise that he had not the faintest idea where the bristles went which had adorned him when in wolfish form.
M39) In these examples the corn-spirit is represented and eaten in human shape.
Among the Yorubas of West Africa, when one of twins dies, the mother carries about, along with the surviving child, a small wooden figure roughly fashioned inhuman shape and of the sex of the dead twin.
Then his jee-bi again left the carcass, and once more he found himself in human shape.
They skinned him, and as his flesh got cold his jee-bi took its flight, and once more he found himself in human shape.
He had been killed before in the shapes of different animals, but now his body, in human shape, was crushed.
Beast in human shape," said the gaoler; "you have light enough.
But you are free now, you say, and you fear nothing in human shape.
He was thought to have a human shape, at one time, by some theorists: no doubt exists on that head.
If Jehovah was thus supposed to differ only in degree from the undoubtedly zoomorphic or anthropomorphic "gods of the nations," why is it to be assumed that he also was not thought to have a human shape?
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "human shape" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
