Example Sentences

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His winning depended upon the actors and actresses who had bodied forth his conception.

From Vistas of New York by Matthews, Brander

Its desirability he had never doubted, and the speech of the evening before had given a local habitation and a name to the forms his imagination had bodied forth.

From The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays by Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell)