Ripogenus, the water-body, had had aspirations, and a boon of brief transfiguration into a cloud-body had been granted it by Nature, who grants to every terrestrial essence prophetic experiences of what it one day would be.

The Incarnation and the Redemption are not accomplished facts, completed nineteen centuries ago; they are processes that still continue, and their term is fixed only by the total regeneration and perfecting of matter, while the Seven Sacraments are the chiefest amongst an infinity of sacramental processes which are the agencies of this eternal transfiguration.

Ailsa looking on, astonished, noticed a singular radiance on his facethe pale transfiguration from some quick inward illumination.

Let there be relatively too much of it, too little of the other glands, and the grosser transfigurations and ailments of the child-bearing period follow.

Not manipulation, but imaginative transfiguration of material; not invention, but selection of existing material appropriate to his genius, and complete absorption of it into his being; that is how the epic poet works.

Could the pencil faithfully represent this magnificent transfiguration of Nature, it would appear utterly unreal and impossible to eyes which never beheld the reality....

Ailsa looking on, astonished, noticed a singular radiance on his facethe pale transfiguration from some quick inward illumination.

Besides, there are other reasons why I am contented that my father was a country parson, born much about the same time as Scott and Wordsworth; notwithstanding certain qualms I have felt at the fact that the property on which I am living was saved out of tithe before the period of commutation, and without the provisional transfiguration into a modus.

Every one expected this, but just as the Train broke out of the gorge into the open, at the edge of the river-bedthere was a great sucking transfiguration from the shallows, a hideous sort of giving birth from the mud.

He saw, that, if exact imitation of Nature be taken as the law in painting, there must inevitably occur the difficulty to which we have before referred,that, above a certain point, paint no longer undergoes transfiguration, thereby losing its character as mere coloring material,that, if the ordinary tone of Nature be held as the legitimate key-note, the scope of the palette would be exhausted before success could be achieved.

It was independent of physical conditions, as it was independent of the limitations of time and space; superb as sunshine, simple as the glory that had sometimes touched his soul of boyhood in sleepthe white fires of an utter transfiguration.

A veritable transfiguration of the individual may occur, the black magic of which may perplex him for a lifetime.

Steadily the wondrous transfiguration went on.