transmute
Definition: To change in nature, substance, or form
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A Room with a View - By Edward Morgan Forster
...You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you ....
This Side of Paradise - By Francis Scott Fitzgerald
...Women--of whom he had expected so much; whose beauty he had hoped to transmute into modes of art; whose unfathomable instincts, marvellously incoherent and inarticulate, he had thought to perpetuate in terms of experience--had become merely consecrations to their own posterity ....
The Portrait of a Lady - By Henry James, Leon Edel
...But apparently she had only reserved herself for this occasion; for she had a dangerous quickness in her eye, and an air of irritation which even her admirable smile was not able to transmute ....
Westward Ho! - By Charles Kingsley, N. C. Wyeth
...`` So you see, my dear Mrs. Hawkins, having the silver, as your own eyes show you, beside the ores of lead, manganese, and copper, and above all this gossan -LRB- as the Cornish call it -RRB-, if my recipes, which I had from Doctor Dee, succeed only half so well as I expect, then I refine out the Luna, the silver, lay it by, and transmute the remaining ores into Sol, gold ....
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - By Anne Bront
...But Anne was not strong enough, her gift was not vigorous enough, to enable her thus to transmute experience and grief ....
Memoirs of a Physician - By Alexandre Dumas
...Yea; for to make the diamond, you have not to transmute one body into another,--to make the diamond is merely to attempt the simple modification of a known element . " "...
History of Prose Fiction - By John Colin Dunlop, Henry Wilson
...This story, offering merelythe dramatic development of the old belief that a maiden 's kiss has virtue to transmute instantly a monster into a beautiful prince, has in M. Dillaye s opinion no mythic origin ....
Literary chapters - By Walter Lionel George
...But while the young men sneer at society, at the family, at every institution, Mr. Lawrence tends to accept these things : he has no plan of reform, no magic wand with which to transmute the world into fairyland : he claims only the right to develop his individuality, and to see others develop theirs, within a system which tortures him as another Cardinal La Balue ....
The Piazza Tales - By Herman Melville
...Now, Excellenza, transmute that general gravity into joyousness, and subject it to twelve of those variations I have described, and tell me, will you not have my hours here, and Una one of them ?...
The Troll Garden - By Willa Cather, McClure, Phillips & Co, McClure Press
...`` Une Meduse, madam, who, if she were discovered, would transmute us all into stone, " said the novelist, bowing gravely ....
The Gospel of Freedom - By Robert Herrick
...Some little solvent would touch the story of their lives, and transmute the relationship ....
Many Inventions - By Rudyard Kipling
...Devil and brute Thou dost transmute To higher, lordlier show, Who art in sooth that utter Truth The careless angels know !...
Vivian Grey - By Benjamin Disraeli
...It is generally believed that the next step of the Diet-will be to transmute the father 's Grand Ducal coronet into a Regal crown; and perhaps, my good sir, before you reach Vienna, you may have the supreme honor of being presented to his Majesty the King of Reisenburg . "...
The Feminine Note in Fiction - By William Leonard Courtney
...What more natural than that the inheritor of the name should be seized by a similar passion for Agnes Rivers, that he should visit the room which she haunts at night, that he should play the harmless device of pretending to be his namesake, that he should bring his dear lady-love first to talk, and then, with nervous energy, strive like another Pygmalion to transmute his Galatea into actual corporeal existence ?...
Mother Carey's Chickens - By Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
...Then her eyes would turn from blue velvet to blue steel, and strength would flow into her from some divine, benignant source and transmute her into father as well as mother !...
Moon-face and Other Stories - By Jack London
...But I have, sir, an idea, which, by your leave and kind assistance, I shall transmute into cash ....