Which preposition to use with transformations

of Occurrences 205%

It might indeed be further shown, that the latter have their temporary transformations of men into alligators, wolves, and the like, as the French have their loups-garoux, the Germans their war-wolves, wolf-men, and the rest.

in Occurrences 45%

By June 6th Garibaldi had complete possession of Palermo; other successes in his famous campaign of liberation followed rapidly; and his final triumph was achieved in the later events so eloquently described by Probyn, the historian of Italy's progress through her most important transformations in the nineteenth century.

from Occurrences 19%

As strange as is Mohammed's transformation from an ordinary son of man, which he wanted to be, into the incarnation of Divine Light, as the later biographers represent him, it is still more astounding that the intercession of saints should have become indispensable to the community of Mohammed, who, according to Tradition, cursed the Jews and Christians because they worshipped the shrines of their prophets.

into Occurrences 17%

As soon as all these fine folks had alighted from the train it was decided to go up to the plateau to see the famous fields, for everybody was curious about them, so extravagant and inexplicable did the idea of Mathieu's return to the soil, and transformation into a peasant, seem to them.

with Occurrences 6%

He contemplated the transformation with wonder not unmixed with suspicion.

by Occurrences 4%

[Footnote 1: "The rishi," says Eitel, "is a man whose bodily frame has undergone a certain transformation by dint of meditation and asceticism, so that he is, for an indefinite period, exempt from decrepitude, age, and death.

through Occurrences 3%

While the Sequoia was first emerging from the Carboniferous, or Coal Period, the reptile-like ancestors of these mammals, covered with scales and of egg-laying habits, were crawling about and giving not the most remote prophecy of their potential transformation through 10,000,000 of years into the superb fauna of the northern hemisphere.

at Occurrences 3%

The other policy was that of peace abroad and socialistic transformation at home, inspired by the modern ideals of justice and fraternity, and supported by the best of the younger generation of philosophers, poets, and artists, as well as by the bulk of the working class.

as Occurrences 3%

If the atmosphere of Vernon can work such transformation as this, it ought to be bottled up and sold at twenty dollars the dozen.

to Occurrences 2%

Thou might'st be arrested In fearful transformation to a willow, A beast, fire, water,fire for ever sighing, Water for ever weeping.

for Occurrences 2%

A complete transformation for the worse almost always comes over the home.

of Occurrences 1%

Her first published work was called "The Wonderful Transformations of Caterpillars."

before Occurrences 1%

Thus the idea of legal constraint is still the generating idea of the notion of justice, though undergoing several transformations before that notion, as it exists in an advanced state of society, becomes complete.

beside Occurrences 1%

Each molecule of food, ingested for assimilation into our substance, accumulates a history of wanderings and pilgrimages, attachments and transformations beside which the gross trampings of a Marco Polo become the rambling steps of a seven-league booted giant.

like Occurrences 1%

I persuaded myself that I was but now beginning; that there had been no reality in these latter experiences, only a curious succession of nightmares, such as might so well be supposed to follow a wonderful transformation like that which must take place between our mortal life andthe world to come.

on Occurrences 1%

By more or less of heat the seasons accomplish their wonderful transformations on the earth and in the air.

throughout Occurrences 1%

A change in the adrenal as a response to changes of temperature and humidity in an environment would result in a number of concomitant transformations throughout the body.

within Occurrences 1%

The buffalo and yak have probably come under the yoke in comparatively recent times, for they are little changed; but the goat and still more the sheep have undergone a wonderful transformation within and without.

after Occurrences 1%

Amidst this vast chaos and upon this double ruin was formed the feudal system, which by transformation after transformation became ultimately France.

Which preposition to use with  transformations