Its miracle touch transmutes five feet eight inches of flesh and bones into solid silver!

Searchlights from many warships turned their rays upon us, staring at us from stem to stern, following us with a far-flung vigilance, transmuting the base metal of our funnel and brasswork into shining silver and burnished gold.

To common sense the alchemist's dream of transmuting lead into gold seems preposterous, yet in a hundred laboratories radium is breaking down into helium, and the new chemistry bids fair to turn the time-honored jeer at the alchemists completely upside down.

We got in in the evening, travelling in a post-chaise from Penrith, in the midst of a gorgeous sunshine, which transmuted all the mountains into colors, purple, etc.

What difficulties and miscarriages attend the business of transmuting the recognized materials for happiness into living human joy?

There is no transmuting its refractory elements into something which is not itself; and it is nothing if it is not primarily a direct message from God.

They were naturally a kind people; but let one example show how serfage can transmute kindness.

So this man who has confronted the greatest realities of life, enabled to view them with the same objective detachment with which God sees them, though without the divine knowledge which transmutes their darkness, comes to learn that we carry all heaven and hell within ourselves, and with a relentless insight, almost Lucretian in its desperate intensity, he cries:

So shall you transmute all your selfish desires into the pure gold of Love, and self will disappear in Truth.

Life at its normal best is full of agonizings and endless toil and sufferings; what matters, what it is really there for, is that we should learn to conduct it with Dignity, Courage, Goodwillto transmute its dross into gold.

Or rather, the nature of things transmuted his active egoism into a demand for a public benefit.

By the aid of a lively and unscrupulous imagination, he gradually transmutes their experiences into his own.

Francis of Assisi, St. Catherine and St. Theresa, and countless others who have followed themlearned to transmute that great creative force, disdained both choices which I set before you, finding a nobler and more glorious way.

It does not appear that the Egyptians transmuted gold; they had ways of separating it from all kinds of bodies, from the very mud of the Nile, and stones of all kinds: but, adds Kercher, these secrets were never written down, or made public, but confined to the royal family, and handed down traditionally from father to son.

THE MORE REMOVED FROM THE NATURE of the animal is the food on which it lives, the more difficult is the process of assimilation, and the more complex the chain of digestive organs; for it must be evident to all, that the same apparatus that converts flesh into flesh, is hardly calculated to transmute grass into flesh.

Mr. Myres is greatly respected by all in his district; he has transmuted the olden ritualistic horror which prevailed in the district, into one of love and reverence; and all his sheep have a genial and affectionate bleat for him.

" His hand touched a small disk near the button he had first pressed; a disk of some strange metal, iridescent, gleaming with a peculiar greenish patina that, even as one watched it, seemed to blend into other shades, as an oil-scum transmutes its hues on water.

But, thus transmuted, the inductive principle issues out of this metamorphose, a fiction not a truth; a weapon of air, which even in the hands of a giant can inflict no blow because it is itself a shadow.

At Rome, the dying paganism had modified its prosody and transmuted its language with Ausonius, with Claudian and Rutilius whose attentive, scrupulous, sonorous and powerful style presented, in its descriptive parts especially, reflections, hints and nuances bearing an affinity with the style of de Goncourt.

Every married lover will tell you that if his love is to remain what it was in the beginningif it is rather to grow in power and beautyhe also must be able gradually to transmute his love in such a way that the spirit dominates the flesh more and more, and that the physical side of marriage becomes simply an expression of the love of the spirit, the perfect final expression, the sacrament of love.

In that rare atmosphere of the Sierra foot-hillsthat air pungent with balsamic odor, that ethereal cordial at once bracing and exhilaratinghe may have found food and nourishment, or a subtle chemistry that transmuted asses' milk to lime and phosphorus.

So all are altered, for while we have slept we have still been subject to that on-moving energy of the world which incessantly renews us yet transmutes usdouble mystery of our permanence and our change.

And this is well for the reader, as all have not time for philosophy, nor can all transmute pain into treasure.

The American college girl is not as yet transmuting her prowess of the athletic field into work on the anvil, as is the university woman in England, but she has demonstrated her manual strength and skill on the farm with plough and harrow.

The artist had proposed to himself to transmute the first scene of night and lowliness into a picture of splendor and glory; and for this purpose had prepared a blaze of light to fall in from every side, which this interval was required to kindle.