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Updated: May 29, 2025
Moze's study, she felt as if she was stepping backwards into history and this in spite of the fact that nothing in the place was really ancient, save the ceilings and the woodwork round the windows. It was Mr. Moze's habit of mind that dominated and transmogrified the whole interior, giving it the quality of a mausoleum.
The news has just arrived, though it has not yet been made public, that we should be suspicious of the designs of Louis Napoleon, who has so wonderfully been transmogrified into an emperor though for my part, I believe that no ruler of France has ever been more friendly disposed towards us, and the Russians will find that they are mistaken in wishing to set us by the ears.
Elizabeth made another attempt to regain the poem, but without effect, and Anne recalled the attention of all to Helen's verses. 'What is a pennant? said Elizabeth; 'I do not like words to be twisted for the sake of the rhyme. A flag, said Helen. 'I never doubted that you intended it for a flag, said Elizabeth; 'but what I complain of is, that it is a transmogrified pennon.
Arts and sciences, ideas and institutions, laws and learning would still abound, transmogrified to suit the reigning madness. And as statistics reveal the late gradual and general increase of insanity, it becomes a provident people to consider what may be the ultimate results, if this increase should happen never to be checked.
'I hope you will yet walk into Willow Lawn, said Albinia. 'Ah! thank you; I should like to see the old place. I dare say it may be transmogrified now, but I think I could find my way blindfold about the old garden. I say, Maria, do you remember that jolly tea-party on the lawn, when the frog made one too many?
"I saw your Astral Body hovering over the canyon." "Wow!" Suddenly, his kind encouragement transmogrified into a cold, penetrating glare. I felt he was looking right through me. "I can see that you still doubt me," he said, turning away. I was upset with myself. As usual, he was right. Yet I sensed there was something more, something in the way he looked at me... But he was smiling now.
"By God," said Sancho, "your worship gives me a nice authority for what you say, putrid Dolly something transmogrified, or whatever it is."
However, he had felt an undeniable curiosity to see the shabby, under-nourished Scott Brenton, a thing of shambling feet and knobbly joints, transmogrified into the well-groomed, easy-mannered type of rector which had become traditional at Saint Peter's.
There was no hint that other ideals of existence had ever possessed an alluring charm; the high life with Harry, the broad and cosmopolitan life with the Major where were they? "I've insisted on it, the one thing I've had my own way in." Bob was being transmogrified into a Man of Iron, if not of Blood. Vainly Mr Neeld consulted his memories. "And Mingham's so bound up with it all.
They themselves applied paint in rings, zigzags, and other forms to their white shirts; painted a large saucer-like circle round the eyes with vermilion, so as to give themselves something the appearance of the great idols; and having thus transmogrified themselves, each gravely took his place upon his perch; where, leaning back against the prow behind them, they were by no means uncomfortable.
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