Mere distance from the sea bars a country from its vivifying contact; every protrusion of an ocean artery into the heart of a continent makes that heart feel the pulse of life on far-off, unseen shores.
They are as stuffed birds or beasts in a Museum, serviceable no doubt from a scientific standpoint, but with no vivid or vivifying hold upon us.
If it refuses to see a quasi-anthropomorphic God modelling each species from without as a potter models clay, it gives us God as vivifying and indwelling in all His creatures--He in them, and they in Him.
At the beginning of spring, when the wind from Piedmont blows through our valley, I feel its vivifying warmth penetrating me, and a thrill passes over me in spite of myself.
On the whole it seems most likely that he represents the sun, as the vivifying power in nature, though some[6] think that he was originally an abstraction of the vivifying forces in the world and later became connected with the sun.
It may be said that a young career never bloomed under a morevivifying sun.
The political aspirations that spring from the soil on which the vivifying beams of royalty have fallen never lack reapers.
The Bible represents vegetables as coming into existence before the sun, but philosophy teaches that they could neither germinate nor grow without the warming and vivifying influence of the sun.
The instant the clouds are rifted, the sun darts down its vivifying rays.
I saw made by the two fore feet, wet and clayey, being put briskly up to his eyes as he sneezed that genetic, vivifying sneeze, and leaving their mark, forever.
His flesh is a true, vivifying food, and His blood is a true, vivifying drink.
In this way we charge our seven-and-twenty flasks with clean vivifying mountain air.
But through this living zone, greedy of oxygen and appropriating it, the vivifying gas cannot penetrate to the centre of the film.
His desires are gratified, the vivifying waters are poured upon his head, the grace of holy baptism has invested him with all the rights of his eternal heritage, the spirit of darkness is confounded.
For sin is the withdrawing into self and egotism, out of the vivifying life of God, which alone is our true life.
There is one intensity of feeling produced by stimulating the senses, another by vivifying the spiritual life within.
This species of washing produced effects somewhat similar to the vivifying waters of Baptism: grace and salvation at once entered his soul.
The passage of Jesus might be compared to the wafting of a breath of air, to a sudden flash of light, or to a shower of vivifying dew, but it was swift as a whirlwind.
Forever deprived of the vivifying warmth of the sun, they were vapid and colorless.
It no longer disturbed him; he greedily watched it rocking, and hungered for the fortified powers of the vivifying sap which to him it symbolised.
At that early hour, amid all the travail of nature's growth, there was a hum of vivifying warmth, and the very rocks quivered as with a long and silent effort.
Other pleasing remedies rejoiced in the names of vivifying drops, cephalic tinctures, gripe-waters, and angelical specifics.
It was undoubtedly written by one who knew Mr. Scott well, and bore testimony, as all who ever had that privilege have done, to the singular force and virtue of his nature, and its penetrating and vivifying power over others.
Every one knows that the soul is a principle of life; but animal life, besides the vivifying soul, requires also an organic body as its other principle.
O'Connell was the head and front, the vivifying principle, organizer, and counsellor of this grand uprising of an enslaved people; and his efforts were as untiring as his advice was judicious and well timed.
There have been occasional rains, and the growths all show its vivifying influences.
Most men have difficulty in vivifying any historical event so as to feel its reality.
In order that faith may impart its vivifying influence it must penetrate the soul's substance, and become to her the principle of a new life, directing all her movements, animating all her thoughts, desires and hopes.
She should nourish her soul with the vivifying substance of the words it contains, and look therein for light to dispel her doubts, and for consolation in her troubles.
I sprinkled his forehead with eau de cologne which I always carry with me, and let him inhale the vivifying perfume.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vivifying" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: energizing; exhilarating; invigorating; quickening; vital
