A great joy transfigured the black face.

We thought to rise upon the wings of knowledge and beauty, lured by the mysteries of color and the magic of design and the might of the intellect and its words, that have transfigured life into the greatest adventure ever attempted in time and space.

and then as they sat, hand-in-hand, with the glory of the sunset transfiguring the every-day world, she told him of the wonder valley of hot springs in the far North, whose streams have magical powers of healing.

Who can say but that there may be somewhere in the universe secret treasuries where all that has ever been precious is precious still, safely garnered and guarded for us against some wonderful moment which shall gather up for us in one transfiguring apocalypse all the wonderful moments that have but preceded us into eternity.

A white blaze of madness transfigured Victor's countenance.

we are thus made; passion excuses every thing, transfigures every thing.

How was he to go about transfiguring these thirty-four thousand francs, at a jump, into three hundred thousand.

She is rearing a late brood, I suppose.' 'What do you think it is which can stir him up to such an ecstasy of joy, and transfigure his whole heart into melody?' 'What but love, the fulness of all joy, the evoker of all song?' 'All song?The angels sing in heaven.'

What transfigures the individual as the years go by is no simple wear and tear of the tissues, nor the replacement of old cells by new.

Then he leaned a little forward to explain the sudden glamour which for a moment had transfigured the interior of their kitchen.

The freedom which he manifests is not that which has been won, but into which he must have been born, and with that grew the ability which transfigures labor into play.

" Her tears could be kept back no longer; they fell not like November rain, but rather like those sudden showers of spring from passing clouds, while the blue sky still looks down, and rainbow smiles transfigure the landscape.

A light suddenly flashed upon his face would have discovered a keen and alert intelligence transfiguring the apathetic mask of every day.

Who can say but that there may be somewhere in the universe secret treasuries where all that has ever been precious is precious still, safely garnered and guarded for us against some wonderful moment which shall gather up for us in one transfiguring apocalypse all the wonderful moments that have but preceded us into eternity.

That is the glory of life, transfiguring human nature, and without it, life sinks to sordid selfishness.

It is not merely that in Christ's teaching we have the Old Testament of God over again with a plus, the new which is added has so transformed and transfigured the old that all is become new.

It is only here and there that a man is found, like Hawthorne, Judd, and Mr. Holland, who discovers or instinctively feels that this remoteness is attained, and attainable only, by lifting up and transfiguring the ordinary and familiar with the mirage of the ideal.

Adventure was necessary to Scott; he could not have transfigured the plain and homely with beauty as George Eliot has done.

As they filed again up the valley that morning, with the early sun transfiguring the great snow-topped ranges about them into a paradise of colour and warmth, Aldous found himself mentally wondering if it were really possible that a serious danger menaced them.

" Rosea transfigured Rose, glowing, trembling, radiantrepeated, vibrantly, "You said, 'I'm Floss, Rose's sister.

Ah! who but she the glory knows Of life, pure, high, intense; Whose holy calm breeds awful shows, Transfiguring the sense!

The gentle quiver of Nature under the kiss of Springtime, the intense perfume of the flower that is the emblem of virginity, had transfigured that madcap singer, that adventuress of a career so checkered, who had been violently thrust into her first experience of passion, and now for the first time felt the blush of modesty in the arms of a man.

Of one thing I am sure, that Savonarola's friend Michael Angelo would have piled all his own statues one on top of the other, and burnt them to ashes, if only he had been certain that the glow transfiguring the sky was the dawn of a younger and wiser world.

I do not ask him to imitate the boy who, cliff-bred from his youth, used to spend stolen hours on the house-top, with his back against a chimney-stalk, transfiguring in his imagination the roof-slopes into mountain-sides, the slates into sheets of rock, the cats into lions, and the sparrows into eagles.

It has gone into the heart and through the heart, it has got hold of the will and it has transfigured the spirit and the whole being.