What is "embodiments"

Usage examples of "embodiments".

Full as my mind was of the wild and sometimes fearful tales of a Highland nursery, fear never entered my mind by the eyes, nor, when I brooded over tales of terror, and fancied new and yet more frightful embodiments of horror, did I shudder at any imaginable spectacle, or tremble lest the fancy should become fact, and from behind the whin-bush or the elder-hedge should glide forth the tall swaying form of the Boneless.

Then he would return to his couch, and, well satisfied, fall asleep to dream yet further embodiments of human ill.