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    1. We can transfigure ourselves into any animal we wish, but the wolf’s form is the most practical and easiest to learn


    2. That lamia proceeded to transfigure before their eyes, becoming indistinguishable from Ishtar in every respect


    3. Let a notary transfigure himself into a deputy: let a false Corneille compose Tiridate; let a eunuch come to possess a harem; let a military Prudhomme accidentally win the decisive battle of an epoch; let an apothecary invent cardboard shoe-soles for the army of the Sambre-and-Meuse, and construct for himself, out of this cardboard, sold as leather, four hundred thousand francs of income; let a pork-packer espouse usury, and cause it to bring forth seven or eight millions, of which he is the father and of which it is the mother; let a preacher become a bishop by force of his nasal drawl; let the steward of a fine family be so rich on retiring from service that he is made minister of finances,—and men call that Genius, just as they call the face of Mousqueton Beauty, and the mien of Claude Majesty


    1. The spoken ego of god transfigured into the two tablets: Writing ego into material history; transfigured On a mount; high up in transcendent enlightenment; The two tablets illustrating the logos itself:


    2. She who had seemed as a terrible force had been wondrously transfigured into a mother bathed in sunlight, radiating warmth and love; all hints of terrible awe a mere phantom now in the eye of the beholder


    3. then the humblest action is transfigured with the spirit


    4. "Oh, it would be lovely," cried Una, with a transfigured face


    5. He reappeared when Jesus was transfigured on the mountain


    6. It is transfigured, and becomes the real Self,


    7. (This means that Enoch did not die, he was transfigured


    8. It is then we see Jesus as He really is, as He becomes transfigured in our


    9. go out in the power of God? Do you still need to see the Christ transfigured? Have


    10. And if I were to ask myself from what literature we, here in Europe, we who have been nurtured almost exclusively on the thoughts of Greeks and Romans, and of one Semitic race, the Jewish, may draw that corrective which is most wanted in order to make our inner life more perfect, more comprehensive, more universal, in fact more truly human, a life, not for this life only, but a transfigured and eternal life – again I should point to India

    11. He went up into an high mountain apart, and was transfigured


    12. is brought more closely into touch with the Monad, and is thus transfigured


    13. The eyes of the believer who prays worthily are opened by the Holy Spirit, or they are transfigured by


    14. It transfigured into a hansome man with little


    15. She has transfigured into a


    16. From Yeshua’s transfigured facial expression, Nancy understood that he had heard like her the mental message from The One, even though the guests around them had not


    17. This is his ‘Shattering Shout’, transfigured


    18. Jesus was transfigured and glorified on a


    19. She would have been transfigured by her shining thoughts if anything could have transfigured her, but no thoughts however bright could pierce through that sad body


    20. Ingeborg paddled slowly along the middle of the quiet water towards the sunset, and Ingram sat at the other end with his back to it and watched her becoming more and more transfigured as the sun got lower

    21. "It--it's a great responsibility," she murmured a second time, while her face was transfigured with more than just the sunset


    22. Moses and Elijah are transfigured, as well, because


    23. He was transfigured before them; and His face shown


    24. transfigured before them; and His garments became


    25. Carmel, as one of the persons transfigured


    26. living within is not simply enough, the harmony of the inner and the outer life -- made one in fullness and transfigured into a play of something beyond them is that what will create the form of a perfect living


    27. His perfection was such that He might justly have been transfigured upon the cross, and shone forth in the excellent glory when darkness veiled the sky


    28. Besides, as chance would have it, he saw Dounia for the first time transfigured by her love for her brother and her joy at meeting him


    29. Something subtle about her being transfigured her


    30. At last all confusion, transfigured, trembling and sobbing, she flings herself at my feet and says that I am her saviour, and that she loves me better than anything in the world

    31. Never did any bird flying back to a plundered nest which it had left brimful of chirping young ones, express more complete despair in its anguished cries and flutterings, than she by her single "Oh!" and the change that transfigured her late happy countenance


    32. The fire in his eyes and the passion in his gestures transfigured him


    33. When Captain Nemo spoke in this way, he was transfigured, and


    34. The people looked, with an unshaken hope, to see the minister come forth out of the conflict, transfigured with the glory which he would unquestionably win


    35. We shall see whether Hester Prynne were ever afterwards so touched, and so transfigured


    36. {400} Now I saw in my dream that these two men went in at the gate: and lo, as they entered, they were transfigured, and they had raiment put on that shone like gold


    37. The old oak, quite transfigured, spreading out a canopy of sappy dark-green foliage, stood rapt and slightly trembling in the rays of the evening sun


    38. Never did any bird flying back to a plundered nest, which it had left brimful of chirping young ones, express more complete despair, in its anguished cries and flutterings, than she by her single ‘Oh!’ and the change that transfigured her late happy countenance


    39. But if one remained near him for a few hours, and beheld him in the least degree pensive, the fine man became gradually transfigured, and took on some imposing quality, I know not what; his broad and serious brow, rendered august by his white locks, became august also by virtue of meditation; majesty radiated from his goodness, though his goodness ceased not to be radiant; one experienced something of the emotion which one would feel on beholding a smiling angel slowly unfold his wings, without ceasing to smile


    40. Madeleine was transfigured in Fantine's eyes

    41. But this painful respiration hardly troubled a sort of ineffable serenity which overspread her countenance, and which transfigured her in her sleep


    42. A wonderful joy had transfigured this old man


    43. As soon as twilight descended, the old elephant became transfigured; he assumed a tranquil and redoubtable appearance in the formidable serenity of the shadows


    44. The war of the street was suddenly transfigured by some unfathomable inward working of his soul, before the eye of his thought


    45. On the funeral pile, in shipwreck, one can be great; in the flames as in the foam, a superb attitude is possible; one there becomes transfigured as one perishes


    46. He was less the man transfigured than the victim of this prodigy


    47. before transfigured crime, and stammer its excuses?—Yes, that was the state of the case! and Javert saw it! and Javert had touched it! and not only could he not deny it, but he had taken part in it


    48. Cosette, as she took her flight, winged and transfigured, left behind her on the earth her hideous and empty chrysalis, Jean Valjean


    49. The convict was transfigured into Christ


    50. " 'It is my ultimate goal to transmute this experience into a level of life participation which is worthy of the immense powers that have been bequeathed to me by Lestat, a level of life experience which knows no moral shrinking from the most obvious yet painful theological questions which my transfigured state has made utterly inescapable, the first of which is, obviously, How does God view my essential being? Am I human and vampire? Or vampire only? That is, is damnation, and I speak now not of a literal Hell with flames, but of a state which is defined by the absence of God-is damnation implicit and inherent in what I am, or do I still exist in a relativistic universe in which I may attain grace on the same terms as humans can attain it, by participating in the Incarnation of Christ, an historical event in which I totally believe, in spite of the fact that it is not philosophically fashionable, though what questions of fashion have to do with me now in this transcendent and often luminous condition is moot







    1. continuous self-emptying of love, which regenerated and transfigures the whole person, elevates him, and


    2. They were all beautiful with the blinding beauty that transfigures even the plainest woman when she is utterly protected and utterly loved and is giving back that love a thousandfold


    3. Great sorrow is a divine and terrible ray, which transfigures the unhappy


    1. which sunlight might have revealed—the stubble scratches upon her wrists, and the weariness of her eyes—her high enthusiasm having a transfiguring effect upon the face which had been her undoing, showing it as a thing of immaculate beauty, with a touch of dignity which was almost regal


    2. She wanted to rub his come into her skin like a transfiguring lotion


    3. American abolitionists grouped about the boat at Harper's Ferry, and in the ear of the patriots of Ancona assembled in the shadow, to the Archi before the Gozzi inn on the seashore; it creates Canaris; it creates Quiroga; it creates Pisacane; it irradiates the great on earth; it was while proceeding whither its breath urge them, that Byron perished at Missolonghi, and that Mazet died at Barcelona; it is the tribune under the feet of Mirabeau, and a crater under the feet of Robespierre; its books, its theatre, its art, its science, its literature, its philosophy, are the manuals of the human race; it has Pascal, Regnier, Corneille, Descartes, Jean-Jacques: Voltaire for all moments, Moliere for all centuries; it makes its language to be talked by the universal mouth, and that language becomes the word; it constructs in all minds the idea of progress, the liberating dogmas which it forges are for the generations trusty friends, and it is with the soul of its thinkers and its poets that all heroes of all nations have been made since 1789; this does not prevent vagabondism, and that enormous genius which is called Paris, while transfiguring the world by its light, sketches in charcoal Bouginier's nose on the wall of the temple of Theseus and writes Credeville the thief on the Pyramids


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    Synonyms for "transfigure"

    metamorphose transfigure transmogrify glorify spiritualize bend govern transform develop convert mould

    "transfigure" definitions

    elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration


    change completely the nature or appearance of