"Take form" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... dimly through the universal consciousness, find interpreters in the men of genius; through them the moral and religious ideas of an epoch take form, and crystallize themselves in poetry and the arts—as the laws of the divine geometry are realized in the crystallizations of minerals. Poetry and the arts may be regarded as the sum of the absolute truths to the conception of which ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 • Various
... less preoccupied the grating over the uneven floor would have been startling. Once just outside the door the waiting pony neighed warningly—and again. Upon the ledge beneath the window-pane a tiny mound of snowflakes began to take form; around the shanty the ...
— A Breath of Prairie and other stories • Will Lillibridge
... no special significance to my mind—I merely was mildly wondrous that they were there; but at last they seemed to take form, and then I realized that there was but a single line of them, ...
— Warlord of Mars • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... take form on the floor of Tom's shop. It was rather a curious looking affair, the sharp forward part making it appear like some engine of war, or a projectile for some monster gun. But Tom cared little for looks. Speed, strength and ease of control were the chief features the lad aimed at, ...
— Tom Swift and his Electric Runabout - or, The Speediest Car on the Road • Victor Appleton
... action or it soon cools, and it is too late. As a general rule, the impulsive person is well supplied with fears, and if he is given time to think the matter over his lack of courage begins to assert itself. Fears of possible or impossible disaster begin to take form until the feelings of fear and apprehension entirely overshadow the desires ...
— Analyzing Character • Katherine M. H. Blackford and Arthur Newcomb
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