How To Use Metamorphose In A Sentence

  • But Gallagher, a noted poet, was delighted with the way Altman "metamorphosed" the stories. The Player Returns
  • Book “on the plan recommended by Mr. Locke,” was published in 1839, which had been already preceded by “a selection from the Metamorphoses of Ovid, adapted to the Hamiltonian system, by a literal and interlineal translation,” published by James Hamilton, the author of the Hamiltonian system. The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations
  • The rocks are argillaceous, sericitic and chloritic, metamorphosed slates and schists, sedimentary pre Jura-trias slates, and ancient devitrified volcanic rocks. North Carolina and its Resources.
  • A larva metamorphoses into a small polyp termed the scyphistoma.
  • The awkward boy I knew had metamorphosed into a tall, confident man.
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  • However ‘temporary’ these sanctions are supposed to be, the history of such measures is that they tend to metamorphose into something far more long-lasting.
  • Parallel ranges and valleys on folded, faulted and metamorphosed strata; rounded crests of subequal height. Central California Coast (Bailey)
  • It and many other old zircons come from metamorphosed sediments deposited in river deltas some 3 billion years ago in what is now southwestern Australia.
  • The tadpoles metamorphose and emerge onto land.
  • In the metamorphosed Thunderhead Sandstone it was found that at the staurolite isograd, the boundary between the garnet and staurolite zones, the mineral chlorite disappears from the rocks and muscovite decreases sharply, whereas staurolite appears and biotite becomes more abundant. Ken Miller in Cleveland: WEBCAST ARCHIVE URLS - The Panda's Thumb
  • As the day progressed, "The Maltese Unicorn" began to metamorphose from joke to viable story concept. Howard Hughes and the Ghost of Better Times
  • ‘Marble’ is a general term for any kind of limestone or other carbonate rock that has been metamorphosed.
  • Glaucophane and riebeckite are found in low-grade schists of basic igneous parentage; crocidolite occurs in medium-grade metamorphosed ironstones.
  • In the metamorphosed Thunderhead Sandstone it was found that at the staurolite isograd, the boundary between the garnet and staurolite zones, the mineral chlorite disappears from the rocks and muscovite decreases sharply, whereas staurolite appears and biotite becomes more abundant. Ken Miller in Cleveland: WEBCAST ARCHIVE URLS - The Panda's Thumb
  • Yakovenko notes that Fedotov's main claim to fame, his coauthorship of the Russian media law, came 18 years ago and during that time, many in Russia have undergone "metamorphoses" straight out of Franz Kafka. Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
  • Marino treats the conflation of the metamorphosed Daphne with the poet's instrument and song at length, perhaps in order to strengthen the connection with the eclogue that directly follows it in his collection, entitled ‘Siringa.’
  • Collembola: an ordinal term applied to species which are apterous; have no metamorphoses; have variably developed abdominal saltatorial appendages and a peculiar ventral tube at base: the spring-tails. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
  • Ovid's "Metamorphoses," translated by several hands; which he recommended by a preface, written with more ostentation than ability; his notions are half-formed, and his materials immethodically confused. Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2
  • The planula larva settles on a hermit crab shell and metamorphoses into a primary polyp.
  • A related group of achondrites, called mesosiderites, are brecciated and metamorphosed.
  • Their most talented and experienced analysts are likely to metamorphose into bankers, who earn roughly twice what they do, leaving their less savvy colleagues to serve retail clients.
  • Car quand un système ne peut traiter ses problèmes vitaux et fondamentaux, ce système régresse mais il dispose aussi des forces pour créer un méta-système et se métamorphoser. Archive 2009-04-10
  • This subsection consists mostly of folded, faulted, and generally metamorphosed sediments and volcanics of the Franciscan Complex and less extensive Cretaceous sediments of the Great Valley Sequence. Leeward Hills (Bailey)
  • One visitor to a black tavern in the Five Points heard a hybrid music: “In the Negro melodies you catch a strain of what has been metamorphosed from such Scotch or Irish tune, into somewhat of a chiming jiggish air.” A Renegade History of the United States
  • His surviving poems are all written in elegiac couplets, with the exception of the Metamorphoses, which is in hexameters. Letter 56
  • In the zone there distribute mylonite with different metamorphose degree.
  • But, in the space of 48 hours, what sounded on Sunday like an imminent threat to financial targets in New York, New Jersey and Washington has metamorphosed into an imbroglio of disarray and confusion, with a dash of farce thrown in.
  • Geologically the axes from the New Guinea Highlands comprise thermally metamorphosed basalt, chert and greywacke depending on quarry source.
  • It metamorphoses, mutates, transforms with each effort to capture it, so that anything that is ‘captured’ would be anything but the beginning.
  • In dry years, such as the year of this study, ponds were dry by mid-June, invertebrate and amphibian larvae were unable to develop enough to metamorphose and emerge from the water.
  • The net result of these four features of development is that larvae will metamorphose at an earlier age if they encounter a decline in growth opportunity, providing that they have exceeded a critical threshold.
  • Most amphibians hatch as aquatic, swimming larvae, then metamorphose into terrestrial forms.
  • Werewolf: The original werewolf of classical mythology, Lycaon, a king of Arcadia who, according to Ovid's Metamorphoses, was turned into a ravenous wolf by Zeus.
  • Book “on the plan recommended by Mr. Locke,” was published in 1839, which had been already preceded by “a selection from the Metamorphoses of Ovid, adapted to the Hamiltonian system, by a literal and interlineal translation,” published by James Hamilton, the author of the Hamiltonian system. The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII
  • From the smoldering remains of the destruction, Cortés built two of what were to metamorphose in the future as Cuernavaca's main tourist attractions: the Palacio de Cortés (now a history museum) and the Catedral de la Asunción. In Morelos, Cuernavaca springs eternal
  • Somewhere along the line, perhaps around the time most people forgot its steps, the name metamorphosed into a sweeping term that could encompass almost all of African-American popular music, or at least everything that has arisen since World War II. One Nation Under a Groove
  • “As’af” and “Naylah,” two idols, some say a man and a woman metamorphosed for stupration in the Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
  • He told them droll stories, incited their rivalry in study by instituting prizes for which they struggled monthly, and, in short, metamorphosed his department. Stories by American Authors, Volume 6
  • In Chronicles this is clericalised in the taste of the post-exilian time, which had no feeling longer for anything but cultus and torah, which accordingly treated as alien the old history (which, nevertheless, was bound to be a sacred history), if it did not conform with its ideas and metamorphose itself into church history. Prolegomena
  • Young girls are metamorphosed into stunning stars of the screen.
  • He'd always bring a jar of the stuff in and we'd have lessons where we'd document the life of the frog by watching the frog spawn hatch and metamorphose from tadpoles to frogs.
  • The collection begins and ends with female metamorphoses. The Times Literary Supplement
  • This short video advertising Kellogg's Raisin Bran Crunch shows a reformed alien sitting at the breakfast table, engaged in a rambling monologue about how he has metamorphosed from a scary flesh-eating monster into a pilates-practicing, go-with-the-flow type of guy that you might want to sit down and have a bowl of cereal with. Boing Boing
  • Elizabeth, who died an unlamented old bat, metamorphosed retrospectively into ‘Good Queen Bess’.
  • If after long and gradual changes in the structure of the co-descendants from any parent stock, evidence (either from monstrosities or from a graduated series) could be still detected of the function, which certain parts or organs played in the parent stock, these parts or organs might be strictly determined by their former function with the term "metamorphosed" appended. The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844
  • The amphibolite, a metamorphosed black volcanic rock, formed from lavas that spilled on the floor of a shallow sea, mixing with layers of mud, sand, and volcanic ash. Ecoregions of North Carolina and South Carolina (EPA)
  • At the end of the larval stage, the animals drop down to the seafloor and metamorphose into adults.
  • Grogan Fault, along which much of the main channel of Redwood Creek flows, is a major structural feature within the park, separating well foliated meta-sedimentary schists and meta-basalts on the south-west of Redwood Creek from the unmetamorphosed sedimentary rocks of the Franciscan to the north-east. Redwood National Park, United States
  • Tempo metamorphoses into headlessness in the hollowed minds of drained brains. Times, Sunday Times
  • While encysted, the glochidia will metamorphose, allowing the organs to develop more like an adult's organs.
  • The annulate corpuscle of the spermatozoon is the metamorphosed nucleus of the cell from which the spermatozoon is developed.
  • The megalopas return in large swarms to the nearshore waters and estuaries in the spring, where they metamorphose into first instar juvenile crabs.
  • Also on a hillside to the north is a contact metamorphosed bed rich in small, dark blue, platy corundum crystals.
  • In order to prove his conservative credentials and beat Romney McCain metamorphosed into Bush. Bush: An asset or a liability for McCain?
  • More specifically, this ecoregion is composed of metamorphosed Mesozoic greywacke sandstone, siltstone, and marine volcanics overlain by Miocene intrusives, Pliocene marine and terrestrial fine-grained sediments, and Quaternary lavas and pyroclastics. Southeastern Papuan rain forests
  • These larvae will also metamorphose into adults sooner than their long-armed brethren and thus are vulnerable to planktonic predators for a shorter period of time.
  • A larva metamorphoses into a chrysalis and then into a butterfly.
  • Woolf's essays are accordingly full of metamorphoses and fantasies, and draw on imagery of clouds, dreams and journeys. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Eastwards, a Permian terrane of greywacke sandstone becomes progressively more highly metamorphosed to become schist which forms the Southern Alps contained within Mount Aspiring National Park. Te Wahipounamu (South-West New Zealand World Heritage Area), New Zealand
  • Yet such is the prevailing level of concern that the publishing house was legitimately concerned that suddenly the little sisters of St. Francis of Assisi would metamorphose into a gaggle of money-hungry, lawyer-blandishing harpies. Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Pitching 101, part III: blind trust and why it has no place in the pitching or querying processes
  • Stalin has metamorphosed into a totalitarian dictator intent on conquest, and the storm clouds of a new conflict gather.
  • The rocks are argillaceous, sericitic and chloritic, metamorphosed slates and schists, sedimentary pre Jura-trias slates, and ancient devitrified volcanic rocks. North Carolina and its Resources.
  • The newly hatched larvae grow for approximately two months before they begin to metamorphose into the adult form.
  • Two facies of regionally metamorphosed rocks that may be of either original sedimentary or igneous derivation are characterized by epidote.
  • Parallel ranges, folded, faulted and metamorphosed strata; rounded crests of subequal height. Northern California Coast (Bailey)
  • Thought is the highest point of a series of ascending metamorphoses, which is called nature. Amiel's Journal
  • After a larva lands on the ocean floor, it metamorphoses, and the adult sponge begins to grow.
  • The geology of the complex, poorly exposed and highly deformed and metamorphosed rocks of the Sudetes of SW Poland has long been controversial.
  • No. You have sent them to us with their arms reversed, their shields broken, their impresses defaced, -- and so displumed, degraded, and metamorphosed, such unfeathered two-legged things, that we no longer know them. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12)
  • The derision into which the Cult of the Supreme Being fell after the overthrow of the Jacobins did not discredit the theme, which underwent a series of conservative metamorphoses in the 19th century.
  • The Burd Gol melange is also the most highly metamorphosed unit locally containing amphibolite grade staurolite and kyanite schists.
  • The tiny, freshly metamorphosed wood froglets then leave the water for a life on land.
  • The tadpoles of some species, such as the bullfrog, take as long as two years to metamorphose into young frogs.
  • Metamorphoses is a treatise on the art of poetry. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Sur les Métamorphoses d'Ovide, mises en rondeaux par Benserade. Rondeau. Sur les Métamorphoses d'Ovide, mises en rondeaux par Benserade
  • Three of 11 pools surveyed dried before any tadpoles could metamorphose.
  • The copper plaques ornamenting the cabinet are painted with scenes taken largely from Ovid's Metamorphoses.
  • If those larvae metamorphose into adults, they're gonna be hungry. MINUTES TO BURN
  • In any event, the capitalists figured out a way to sate the proletariat, and the great metamorphoses from a society of wage slaves into a workers’ paradise never happened, unless you consider two cars and a TV set in every room a workers’ paradise. Government blues
  • Their underlying design is a spiraling vortex, in which undulating waters magically metamorphose into watered silk, velvet into vaporous cloud and firmament.
  • She metamorphosed into a highly intelligent woman who engaged the General on recondite matters of French history and culture.
  • In my first collection there's a poem called "Elegy for Fats Waller" in which my hero metamorphoses into the Sheikh of Araby one of his numbers: "Across the deserts of the blues a trail / He blazes, towards the one true mirage, / Enormous on a nimble-footed camel / And almost refusing to be his age. Fats Waller by Michael Longley
  • Further up section the geology is dominated by a succession of unmetamorphosed but strongly fractured and veined blocky andesites, basalts and tuffaceous rocks.
  • Despite the classical attenuation of her ankles—the heel narrowly incurved, the ankle bone itself a perfect sphere, and with a glisten on it, like sucked caramel—my mother had only to put on a heel higher than her thumb and she metamorphosed into a fine piece of ass, the sort of dame that gave a Chicago mobster cachet. Kalooki Nights
  • Many polychaetes hatch into a particular type of planktonic larva, the trochophore, which later metamorphoses into a juvenile annelid.
  • The country rock was regionally metamorphosed to above the sillimanite isograde.
  • Also see fishlike tadpoles that will later metamorphose into American bullfrogs, sprouting legs and losing their tails.
  • The slate, where thermally metamorphosed, has been turned into siliceous hornfels and mica schist.
  • Trilling frog tadpoles can metamorphose within 17 days, pumping the same hormone through their systems that induces premature births in humans.
  • The tadpoles metamorphose and emerge onto land.
  • This helped my pain metamorphose into something less personal and more universal, something organic and natural. Excerpt: The Year of Pleasures by Elizabeth Berg
  • He explains that, by the mid-1960s, transatlantic smoking rooms had metamorphosed from turn-of-the- century, men-only sancta for smoking, drinking, gambling and occasional vulgarity into larger, less smoky and prettier public rooms admitting their wives. When the Going Was Good
  • The limestones, which have been silicified near the granodiorite contact, have in places been intensely metamorphosed into a typical contact-metasomatic assemblage.
  • She doesn't remember the very first day the nightingale's song metamorphosed into a crow's croak.
  • Young ex-architect Kekul" went looking among the molecules of the time for the hidden shapes he knew were there, shapes he did not like to think of as real physical structures, but as "rational formulas," showing the relationships that went on in "metamorphoses," his quaint 19th-century way of saying "chemical reactions. Gravity's Rainbow
  • They all featured a strong, silent, bad-good man whose badness metamorphoses into redemptive goodness by the end of the final reel.
  • Embryonic coelomic structures have specific fates as the bilaterally symmetrical larvae metamorphose into radially symmetric adults.
  • The salesman metamorphosed into an ugly beetle
  • Facultative paedomorphosis occurs in most species, though individuals in these species usually metamorphose fully into terrestrial adults with robust bodies and limbs, broad heads, and laterally-flattened tails.
  • It becomes a matter of concern when these things get repeated once too often and responsible persons metamorphose into gurus telling people, especially women, how to live their lives.
  • Metaphor adds its own changes to those botanical metamorphoses the poem celebrates descriptively.
  • As you must be a rather cultivated person to be reading this section of the paper, you probably have your own idea of Ovid and his Metamorphoses.
  • These extrusive rocks are tilted and rest unconformably upon metamorphosed limestone, shale, and slate.
  • P] Added to this, insects have antennæ, and undergo metamorphoses, which is not the case with the spider. Aventures d'un jeune naturaliste. English
  • Fertilized eggs develop into crawling planula larvae which settle on hermit crab-occupied shells, and subsequently metamorphose into primary polyps.
  • Recent sediments consist of uncompacted and uncemented sands, clays, and silts, and they have a strength of the order of one thousandth that of many strong metamorphosed basement, or igneous, rocks.
  • He then undertook an edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses, translated by several hands; which he recommended by a preface, written with more ostentation than ability; his notions are half-formed, and his materials immethodically confused. Lives of the Poets, Volume 1
  • Throughout the plays the resonant names of the great are subjected to comic metamorphoses in the mouths of his clowns and fools.
  • If you do, you are miles away from my opinion, for I hold that Homer no more dreamed of all this allegorical fustian than Ovid in his Metamorphoses dreamed of the Gospel.
  • Somehow, this small step in the right direction has metamorphosed into a mighty triumph.
  • The fungus seems to do no harm until the tadpoles start to metamorphose and develop the keratin-rich skin of the adult stage.
  • Embryonic coelomic structures have specific fates as the bilaterally symmetrical larvae metamorphose into radially symmetric adults.
  • Olivero uses a wide gamut of techniques to present the quoted folk material, ranging from rich, sensitive and simple (but not simplistic) arrangements to non-tonal metamorphoses of basic melodic cells, often presented through dense heterophony and clusters. Betty Olivero.
  • Geologically the axes from the New Guinea Highlands comprise thermally metamorphosed basalt, chert and greywacke depending on quarry source.
  • These supracrustal rocks are intruded by dolerite dykes that have been deformed and metamorphosed together with the country rock.
  • Yet such is the prevailing paranoia that the publishing house was legitimately concerned that suddenly the little sisters of St. Francis of Assisi would metamorphose into a gaggle of money-hungry, lawyer-blandishing harpies. Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Book marketing 101: the evolution of the pitch — and the industry
  • A larva metamorphoses into a chrysalis and then into a butterfly.
  • An outlandish delegate sustained against both these views, with such heat as almost carried conviction, the theory of copulation between women and the males of brutes, his authority being his own avouchment in support of fables such as that of the Minotaur which the genius of the elegant Latin poet has handed down to us in the pages of his Metamorphoses. Ulysses
  • Sur les Métamorphoses d’Ovide, mises en rondeaux par Benserade Rondeau. Sur les Métamorphoses d'Ovide, mises en rondeaux par Benserade
  • One visitor to a black tavern in the Five Points heard a hybrid music: “In the Negro melodies you catch a strain of what has been metamorphosed from such Scotch or Irish tune, into somewhat of a chiming jiggish air.” A Renegade History of the United States
  • Then, after thirteen or seventeen years (depending on the species), the nymphs crawl to the surface and metamorphose into red-eyed adults.
  • One visitor to a black tavern in the Five Points heard a hybrid music: “In the Negro melodies you catch a strain of what has been metamorphosed from such Scotch or Irish tune, into somewhat of a chiming jiggish air.” A Renegade History of the United States
  • Metamorphoses into theological fantasy at the end, which may displease some readers. Moscow’s New (But Cloudy) Day
  • The thin cord simply metamorphosed into a kind of coruscating brownness that transcended its lowly origins. Into the Thinking Kingdoms
  • Let your despair roll down those rocky cliffs, and be taken with the tide, pummeled and churned in the pacific surf, sprayed and splayed on the horizon, metamorphosed into air and light. Teresa Marchese: If Only You Knew
  • Larvae metamorphose spontaneously, regardless of where they are.
  • For these are times when we expect our politicians to metamorphose into statesmen.
  • Ordinarily, between 6 and 11 percent of leopard frog tadpoles survive and metamorphose into adults.
  • metamorphoses," we find that the germ (_the egg_) becomes a larva (_a worm_), and then dies as a chrysalis, to be reborn as a butterfly. Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution
  • The awkward boy I knew had metamorphosed into a tall, confident man.
  • Two facies of regionally metamorphosed rocks that may be of either original sedimentary or igneous derivation are characterized by epidote.
  • The thick Thunderhead Sandstone (Upper Precambrian Great Smoky Group) in the Great Smoky Mountains along the Tennessee/North Carolina border was deformed and regionally metamorphosed during formation of the Appalachian Highlands, beginning in the so-called Devonian (that is, early in the Flood year).12-14 With increasing temperatures and pressures from northwest to southeast, the regional metamorphism produced in these sandstone layers a series of chemically and mineralogically distinct zones of schists and gneisses.15 These zones are named according to the first appearance of the distinctive metamorphic minerals which characterize them as the intensity of the metamorphism increased laterally—the biotite, garnet, staurolite, and kyanite zones. Ken Miller in Cleveland: WEBCAST ARCHIVE URLS - The Panda's Thumb
  • Not only do people appear to adopt an online persona which simply does not sit with the real life person behind the username, but I have definitely noticed that for some of the trolls, the waves of vitriol and bile, if left unchecked, can metamorphose into an enormous tsunami of poisonous hatred and abuse beyond what can ever be acceptable either morally or legally. Ambi Sitham: Keyboard Warriors and Trolls: Post in haste, Repent at Your Leisure
  • She metamorphoses from a Gothic heroine passively awaiting deliverance to a hyperactive maniac who believes that she needs to protect men by dragging them away from “The fierce and fiery light” (5.2.45) and the imaginary legions of the advancing dead (Orra 164). The Liberating and Debilitating Imagination in Joanna Baillie’s Orra and The Dream
  • Likewise, in the Metamorphoses Ovid subverts the epic, the literary genre best suited to Augustus's program of cultural classicism.
  • The south-western group consists of metasediments, charnokites and scapolite-bearing calc-granulites, while the highland group comprises khondalites of metamorphosed sediments and charnokites. Sinharaja Forest Reserve, Sri Lanka
  • Most of the rock formations have been metamorphosed, folded, and faulted during the fragmentation and collision of plates of the earth's crust.
  • The auriferous veins there are usually interbedded sandstone mudstone varieties metamorphosed into greenschist facies.
  • The story of Baucis and Philemon is in Ovid's Metamorphoses, viii., Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)
  • And that, in a number of cases, they afford you excellent written evidence of telling metamorphoses—in pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, and so on—over thousands of years. The English Is Coming!
  • The old Herald, moral and earnest, was metamorphosed, with supreme irony, into the unspeakable Sun.
  • Most important, Slawenski is able to answer a literary question Hamilton posed in 1988: How did the post-war author of such lax, immature stories as the ones published in Cosmopolitan and Good Housekeeping metamorphose into the ironic, controlled creator of "For Esme" and other masterworks in "Nine Stories"? Kenneth Slawenski's biography of J.D. Salinger
  • His career has been full of dramatic metamorphoses. Times, Sunday Times
  • Rocks are deformed, granitised and high grade metamorphosed.
  • Like a creature of nature who can quickly adapt to her surroundings, I hibernate, metamorphose, undergo catharsis and finally become a butterfly.
  • If those larvae metamorphose into adults, they're gonna be hungry. MINUTES TO BURN
  • Polychaetes usually have separate sexes; many polychaetes hatch into a particular type of planktonic larva, the trochophore, which later metamorphoses into a juvenile annelid.
  • No. You have sent them to us with their arms reversed, their shields broken, their impresses defaced; and so displumed, degraded, and metamorphosed, such unfeathered two-legged things, that we no longer know them. Paras. 350-374
  • I should say that there are some fine performances in the film as well, particularly from Gary Sinise who seems to be able to metamorphose into whatever character he is playing.
  • A woman who appears to be a downcast person who lives under bridges, turns out to be has a metamorphose into a princess and has a regal personage.
  • I can tell the pair have enjoyed effecting these digital metamorphoses, but can't entirely see the point. Times, Sunday Times
  • Eastwards, a Permian terrane of greywacke sandstone becomes progressively more highly metamorphosed to become schist which forms the Southern Alps contained within Mount Aspiring National Park. Te Wahipounamu (South-West New Zealand World Heritage Area), New Zealand
  • Some molybdenite forms when igneous bodies contact rock and metamorphose, or change, the rock. Molybdenum
  • In Kafka's story, a person metamorphoses into a bug
  • I've always functioned under the impression that part of being a good citizen is caring for our fellow citizens, but to hear the pundit class parse and metamorphose this issue from a moral imperative into a collision of classes, it's apparently anything but. Zaki Hasan: The GOP's Tax Attacks
  • The envelope consists of garnet gneiss, migmatite, sillimanite gneiss, fibrolite schist, andalusite schist and quartzite, phyllite and unmetamorphosed Palaeozoic to Cretaceous sedimentary rocks.
  • Ultimately, the lines of the image become hyperreal as the structural meshes of models metamorphose into overwrought strands of hair - living yet lifeless.
  • A variety of sedimentary lithologies have been metamorphosed including pelites, psammites, quartzites and carbonates.
  • It is time some one undertook to rehumanise you," said I, parting his thick and long uncut locks; "for I see you are being metamorphosed into a lion, or something of that sort. Jane Eyre: an autobiography, Vol. II.
  • Although he has seemed to stay frozen in time, Bond has actually undergone a series of very subtle metamorphoses.
  • The credits went through a handful of metamorphoses before the show debuted in summer 2007.
  • The awkward boy I knew had metamorphosed into a tall, confident man.
  • Not only may any kind of fossiliferous rocks occur next to the Archæan, but even the "youngest" may be so metamorphosed and crystalline as to resemble exactly in this respect the so-called "oldest" rocks. Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation
  • Their continual presence metamorphosed into a part of the film's ambience; Fred Karlin, a film music expert, argues that such an adaptation thereby nullifies the audience's emotional response.
  • This rock unit consists chiefly of Silurian shale and sandstone that have been metamorphosed to high-grade schist and migmatite.
  • These rocks were metamorphosed during the Grampian Orogeny.
  • Such an elegiac tone, whilst being, as all retrospective accounts of one's past are, self-serving, at least reminds us that the young Freud did not metamorphose directly into the implacable patriarchal disapprover of Grosskurth's somewhat barren imagination. Schadenfreud
  • Also see fishlike tadpoles that will later metamorphose into American bullfrogs, sprouting legs and losing their tails.
  • He'd always bring a jar of the stuff in and we'd have lessons where we'd document the life of the frog by watching the frog spawn hatch and metamorphose from tadpoles to frogs.
  • Many of the recorded instances of so-called metamorphosis of the parts of the flower to sepals have occurred in monocotyledonous plants, or others in which the calyx and corolla are of the same colour, and constitute what is frequently termed the perianth; and as this is usually brightly coloured (not green) it is more convenient to group the metamorphoses in question under the general term Petalody, which thus includes all those cases in which the organs of the flower appear in the form of coloured petal-like organs, whether they be true petals or segments of a coloured perianth. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
  • Now the real roots of all these plants are the long fibres sent down by the lower part of the bulb, which may be seen plainly in hyacinths grown in glasses, and in any of the kinds if taken up while in a growing state; and what is called the bulb is, in all the corms, only a contracted stem; but, in the tunicated and scaly bulbs, the bulbous part is formed of a contracted stem and metamorphosed leaves. The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
  • A larva metamorphose into a chrysalis and then into a butterfly.
  • In the 1930s, monster movies were the staples of Universal Pictures' line-up, a cash cow as the industry metamorphosed from silent films to talkies.
  • To save something toward the repayment of those creditors was the object toward which he was now bending all his thoughts and efforts; and under the influence of this all-compelling demand of his nature, the somewhat profuse man, who hated to be stinted or to stint any one else in his own house, was gradually metamorphosed into the keen-eyed grudger of morsels. II. The Torn Nest Is Pierced by the Thorns. Book IV—The Valley of Humiliation
  • Collembola: an ordinal term applied to species which are apterous; have no metamorphoses; have variably developed abdominal saltatorial appendages and a peculiar ventral tube at base: the spring-tails. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
  • They realized that the store needed to evolve to meet the needs of modern consumers, and so in 1986, Chesterton's hometown five-and-dime metamorphosed into a craft store.
  • Two facies of regionally metamorphosed rocks that may be of either original sedimentary or igneous derivation are characterized by epidote.
  • His appeal discloses the ‘work’ of making early television and also very publicly admits to the nature of program metamorphoses from program department conception to a weekly show.
  • Here, rocks of the Cambro-Ordovician Conanicut Group, specifically interstratified beds of the Fort Burnside Formation and the older Jamestown Formation form great flat tables of phyllite and siltstone, metamorphosed to varying degrees. "Don't let the Earth in me subside..."
  • The awkward boy I knew had metamorphosed into a tall, confident man.
  • It has now metamorphosed into the regally appointed suites of heritage hotels that are either modelled to look like palaces, or into the palaces that have been trimmed to serve memories of the past into bite-sized pieces.
  • To assert that a stamen is a metamorphosed leaf means, if it means anything, that in the long sweep of time the leaf has by slow or sudden gradations changed its character through successive generations, until the offspring, so to speak, of a true leaf has become a stamen. A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences
  • K'shar pushed aside the tangled witchgrass and gazed upon the half-metamorphosed milestone with curious golden eyes. Curse of the Shadowmage
  • The tadpoles metamorphose and emerge onto land.
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  • The mineral-rich metavolcanic and metasedimentary rocks with slatey cleavage are finer-grained and less metamorphosed than most Piedmont regions. Ecoregions of North Carolina and South Carolina (EPA)
  • The exercise is very popular with most students, and some once infected with the publication bug metamorphose into helpless, chronic letter writers.
  • Rock type varies considerably in this region, from the brittle greywacke of the Alps to metamorphosed schist and granite near the Alpine Fault through to a variety of sedimentary rocks (e.g. sandstone, siltstone) along the coast. Westland temperate forests
  • Abuse it, and the coat will metamorphose itself to thrive on the abuse.
  • The veliger usually metamorphoses in 5-6 days.
  • The mountain, Jebel Ichkeul, is composed of Triassic and Jurassic metamorphosed limestones with fossiliferous pseudo-dolomitic marbles exposed in quarries on its south-western slopes. Ichkeul National Park, Tunisia
  • The disguise which Darke has adopted -- the mere shaving off moustaches and donning a dress of home-wove "cottonade" -- the common wear of the Louisiana Creole -- with slouch hat to correspond, is too flimsy to deceive Captain Jim Borlasse, himself accustomed to metamorphoses more ingenious, it is nothing new for him to meet a murderer fleeing from the scene of his crime -- stealthily, disguisedly making way towards that boundary line, between the United States and The Death Shot A Story Retold
  • He is also rather more than a stone heavier, and the raw-boned, gangling flanker of his championship-winning season of 1998 has metamorphosed into something more solid, more intimidating.
  • _Metamorphoses_ with an eye kept on _Paradise Lost_, the intellectual resemblance, in the manner of treatment of thought and language, is abundantly evident, as well in the general structure of their rhetoric as in the lapses of taste and obstinate puerilities (_non ignoravit vitia sua sed amavit_ might be said of Milton also), which come from time to time in their maturest work. Latin Literature

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