The apples and the peaches which he is taught to exchange justly are by and by transmuted into trade and commerce.

The glory which, striking on the heart of the lark, was there transmuted into song, came back from the ball, after its kind, in glow and gleam.

They have transmuted the material conditions of life.

And in another place he expressly states that we shall not all die, but that some shall be transmuted into the Resurrection body without passing through physical death.

The poison had transmuted it.

The "parsonage house" of the Unitarian minister used to be in Church-street, near the chapel; but it has since been transmuted into a shop.

She ought to be thankful that she was able to get a simple dinner that her children could eat; she ought to be thankful that her beef and parsnip stews and cracker puddings and corn bread were being transmuted into blood and brawn and brain-tissue, to help the world along somewhere a little later!

And what I give, Thou givest back to me, Transmuted by Thy touch, each worthless thing Changed to the preciousness of gem or gold, And by thy blessing multiplied a thousand fold

The squint brought back to him the memory of the Golden Age, and through the mist of that memory it was transmuted into loveliness.

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

That was transmuted into something staring and hard.

Light, airy, and superficial men, who carried their minds aloft without the use of reason, are the materials for making birds, the hair being transmuted into feathers and wings.

For the last few months every thought and sensation had been instantly transmuted into such emotional impulses and, though the currents of communication between himself and Undine were neither deep nor numerous, each fresh rush of feeling seemed strong enough to clear a way to her heart.

His whole countenance reminded you of nothing so much as of the young heroes of the French Revolution, for whom irregular features and sallow cheeks were transmuted into brilliant and singular beauty.

Nothing, so to speak, has become something; one base metal has been transmuted into gold, and so given us a purchase on every other.

His horizon had narrowed to logs that might be transmuted into money.

In our absolute incapacity to fix any amative connection upon Michelangelo, or to link his name with that of any contemporary beauty, we arrive at the conclusion, strange as this may be, that the greater part of his love-poetry is a scholastic exercise upon emotions transmuted into metaphysical and mystical conceptions.

Tanned and bronzed by the profound absorption of the sun and the energy of the atmosphere, its navigators were transmuted into pure metal.

and, as he tells us in the fourth book of the Prelude, on one evening during that summer vacation, Gently did my soul Put off her veil, and, self-transmuted, stood Naked, as in the presence of her God.

This expedition, in which not a single hostile Indian was encountered, has been transmuted by Withers and one or two other border historians into a purely fictitious expedition of revenge in which hundreds of Indians were slain on the field of St. Clair's disaster.

for example, judging it only so far as they appear transmuted in our imagination.

These also will be transmuted in their turn, and so the eternal cycle of the seasons glides along.

It was as starlight transmuted into atmosphere, shot through and warmed by sunshine, and flower-drenched with sweetness.

A constitution is the collection of rules and laws by which the action of the king is governed; a state without a constitution is a mere Oriental despotism where each arbitrary whim of the king is transmuted into action; this was not what Bismarck desired or defended; there was no danger of this in Prussia.

She ruled imaginatively, transcendentally; the solid glory of Chatham had been transmuted into the phantasy of an Arabian Night.