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The two days' rest had reanimated the Vendeans, and Muller's infantry were driven back three miles; but large reinforcements came up, and the peasants were forced to fall back again.

From No Surrender! A Tale of the Rising in La Vendee by Wood, Stanley L.

According to the popular solution of this fearful mystery, a demon or familiar had reanimated her form while she lay senseless at the sudden and unlooked-for dissolution of the witches' assembly.

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by Roby, John

This, however, she did not do till she had reanimated the company with consolatory and flattering expressions, and cast such a kind look upon her lover as darted fire into his soul.

From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by

The indomitable Queen of Navarre, with the calm energy which ever signalized her character, had rallied the fugitives around her, and had reanimated their waning courage by her own invincible spirit.

From Henry IV, Makers of History by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

There was, at times, in the expression of his eye, an indescribable mixture of imbecility and enthusiasm, as though the spirit of some Eastern fakir had reanimated a living body.

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by Roby, John