The machinery which sets all in action are certain personifications of Envy, restless Curiosity, and Daring; these induce the hero to undertake many perilous adventures, from which he always escapes through Understanding and Virtue.
The editor seems to have found no difficulty in providing the subject with a text; and it serves as a peg to hang a quatrain on as well as the others which contain personifications of Death.
The present-day nature-mystic needs no imaginary personifications to bring him into communion with the beauty, the mystery, of the ocean wave.
They may be taken, like the Greek giants and Titans, as personifications of the wild brute forces of nature, which strive to hinder man's work and destroy what he has made.
My purpose was to imitate, and, as far as possible, to adopt the very language of men; and assuredly such personifications do not make any natural or regular part of that language.
The Reader will find that personifications of abstract ideas rarely occur in these volumes; and are utterly rejected, as an ordinary device to elevate the style, and raise it above prose.
Southey's personifications in this book are so many fine and faultless pictures.
The personifications of the truthful books of the Old Testament.
They were the male and female personificationsof the heavens.
On either side are lambs, personifications of the apostles, to whom he is giving the final commission to preach in all lands the gospel contained in the scroll which he holds, and to baptize with the sacred waters at their feet.
Northcote interprets as personifications of the church or of the Virgin Mary, certain praying figures nowise differing from the ordinary oranti.
It is in harmony with these tendencies to abstraction that, according to other passages of the Avesta, heaven is filled with a multitude of the most lifeless personifications of ideas and realities.
They were distinguished from the first four by the fact that those were personifications of moral ideas, these two were personifications of real goods.
They are narratives conveying under agreeable personifications the tidings of that unending combat which the Dakotas said was being waged with varying fortunes by Unktahe against Wauhkeon, the God of Waters against the Thunder Bird.
However plastic and distinct the individualities of Ishmael and Edom, Israel and Joseph may seem to us, they are all only personifications and representations of the races of tribes whose names they bear.
Like the rest of them, he and his long-robed attendants are personifications of the eastern light and its rays.
With her ever went four attendant goddesses, the personifications of the rains from the four cardinal points.
In complexion they are described as light in hue, as was their leader, and as are usually the personifications of light, and not the less so among the dark races of men.
This is the preference shown by myths of the nether world for female beings, whether as subordinate personifications of fear or as deities.
Giants degraded forms of original Aryan personifications of the forces of nature.
Many of these mythic giants are little more than degraded forms of the original Aryan personifications of the forces of Nature.
They are also the companions of the clouds and storms"--in other words, personifications of some characteristics of clouds and storms.
The two gods were, in fact, like Indra and Rudra, only different personifications of the same cycle of natural phenomena.
The gods of the Vedas appear to have been, more or less, personifications of what were termed "the elements.
These seem to have originally been merely personifications of the black, white, and grey-coloured clouds of the Aryan elemental conflicts.
These mystic beings were followers, like the Bhrigus and the Maruts, of Agni and Indra, "personifications of fire and firmament.
Cox, in his "Mythology of the Aryan Nations," contends that the beings spoken of as Cyclops in the Iliad and the Odyssey, arepersonifications of distinct natural forces.
The local associations of legends and customs are animated by the personifications of mountains and rivers; and often, in some favourite scenery, he breaks forth with all the emotion of a true poet.
The Gods of Love and Wisdom are frequently represented in conjunction with this Goddess, and the "Twenty-eight Followers" are personifications of certain constellations.
And what shall we say of the other deities of the Hindu pantheon, but that they are personifications of every human caprice and vice.
Those undefined monsters which Beowulf slew, Grendel and his mother, are interpreted by Simrock as personifications of the untamed sea and stormy floods invading the low flat shores, whose devastations so filled Faust with horror (II.
Through neglect of it the glowing personifications and metaphors of the East have too generally migrated to the West only to find it a Medusa turning them to stone.
The scholarly clergyman and his worldly Church on one side, and the ignorant minister with his humble followers on the other, are unconscious personifications of Vice and Virtue, while between them poor Helen is no Heraklea.
Many tragedies, and many personifications of the forces which caused them, preceded the sanctity of the title Pontifex.
The Erinnyes represent the steady supremacy of the laws and forces of nature over all personifications of them.
My purpose was to imitate, and, as far as is possible, to adopt the very language of men; and assuredly such personifications do not make any natural or regular part of that language.
What were the divinities that filled their temples, but images of things, personifications of the powers of nature?
Pan, AEolus, his numerous progeny, and the Harpies, were also wind divinities who never entirely lost their original character with the Greeks, and were therefore worshiped merely as personifications of the elements.
In the story of the Trojan war there are several sun myths; for Paris, Menelaus, Agamemnon, and Achilles have equal claims to be considered personifications of the sun.
Io and Circe, already mentioned, are also personifications of the moon, and Io's wanderings represent its journeys across the sky.
Otus and Ephialtes, the gigantic sons of Neptune, were also at first merely personifications of the wind and hurricanes.
The objects of its worship are personifications of various qualities.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "personifications" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
