Rapid social transition from expansion and advance to contraction and retreat is a traumatic, hectic experience for any human being.

The transition we are witnessing is no equable transition of growth and normal alteration; no silent, unconscious unfolding of one age into another, its natural heir and successor.

The solemn mysterious sleep, the transition from one life to another, became a familiar death-bed scene with the usual moving accompaniments.

"When there is no affinity, the transition from one meaning to an other is a very wide step taken.

The transition from sleep is very natural to that of dreams, the wonderful and mysterious phenomena of that state, the ideal transactions and vain illusions of the mind.

3 Transition to feudalism At the head of the Shang state was a king, posthumously called a "Ti", the same word as in the name of the supreme god.

In woods in which the fibre walls show all gradations of thicknessin other words, where the transition from the thin-walled cells of the early wood to the thick-walled cells of the late wood is gradualthe two kinds of failure, namely, buckling and bending, grade into each other.

However, as I feel nothing in my feet, I flatter myself that this Pindaric transition will not be a regular ode, but a fragment, the more valuable for being imperfect.

But the transitions in this episode are every whit as violent as in the most extravagant dream, and yet the waking judgment ratifies them.

Whether that quick transition from pensiveness to a dancing gaiety was the cause, or whether it only helped her beauty, this is certain.

3 Transition to feudalism At the head of the Shang state was a king, posthumously called a "Ti", the same word as in the name of the supreme god.