She believed from the bottom of her heart in the metamorphoses of her god Vishnu, and, provided she could get some of the sacred water of the Ganges in which to make her ablutions, she thought herself the happiest of women.
But superior to the metamorphosesof love, or of fairy tale, are the metamorphoses of fortune.
Whatever type of metamorphosis is followed by a plant (and there are others as well, so that we may even speak of metamorphoses between different types of metamorphosis!
A more intense impression of what these metamorphoses actually mean is achieved by altering our mode of contemplation in the following way.
And the forms of the cumuli themselves tell us in manifold metamorphoses of a state of equilibrium between expansive and contractive tendencies within the atmosphere.
If, however, we let nature herself speak to us, while holding this differentiated concept of levity in mind, she tells us that beyond the three metamorphoses envisaged so far, there must be a fourth.
In this case the gradual acquirement at an earlier and earlier age of the adult structure would be favoured by natural selection; and all traces of former metamorphoses would finally be lost.
The metamorphoses of insects, with which every one is familiar, are generally effected abruptly by a few stages; but the transformations are in reality numerous and gradual, though concealed.
He must study love-letters from the heavens to the earth, and metamorphoses which have almost all some low, impure object.
After a series of similar metamorphoses of the female into all animal shapes, and a similar series of pursuits by the male in appropriate form, "in this manner pairs of all sorts of creatures down to ants were created".
This method alone explains the why and wherefore of all those strange metamorphoses of gods into beasts and plants, and even stones, which scandalised philosophers, and which the witty Ovid played on for the diversion of his contemporaries.
In 1676 the failure of his Metamorphoses d'Ovide in the form of rondeaux gave a blow to his reputation, but by no means destroyed his vogue with his contemporaries.
The Metamorphoses of the Arthropoda would be the more correct title, but this would not have been so popular, and therefore not so well suited to a popular work.
The metamorphoses of insects comprise some of the most interesting phenomena of the most attractive class in the animal kingdom.
See the Epistle of Deianira to Hercules, and the Tenth Book of the Metamorphoses 1.
In the Fourth Book of the Metamorphoses he relates the rescue of Andromeda from the sea monster, by Perseus, the descendant of Abas, and clearly implies that he used the services of the winged horse Pegasus on that occasion.
Their feverishmetamorphoses are tantamount to their absorption by international capital.
If there is no tax-farmer, as provided in the concessions, then the complicated metamorphoses are reduced to their most simple and obvious terms: the peasant grain passes immediately to the Administration de la Dette Publique Ottomane, i.
He assumed successively the shapes of a rabbit, a hen, a grain of wheat, a horse, a tree, and so on through a wide range of metamorphoses enacted by the aid of secret dramatic machinery.
The action of these factors, whether direct or indirect, is obvious, when we try to explain the origin or causes of the more marked metamorphoses of animals.
The metamorphoses of certain animals, and especially of insects, so often cited in support of this idea, prove, by the fixity with which they repeat themselves in innumerable species, exactly the contrary.
If, in addition to granite, several formations are displayed which bear traces of the same mode of origin, of the same component parts and the same aggregation, it may be inferred that they are only metamorphoses of the same precipitate.
If, therefore, new tissues appear in the animal, they can thus be only metamorphoses of the vesicle.
All other salts are to be regarded only as metamorphoses of it, as well as the acids only conversions of the acid of common salt, and the alkalies of soda.
Plants and animals can only be metamorphoses of infusoria.
The first quartz formation is properly the granite itself, and its character will be also the determinant for all the metamorphoses of quartz--quartz-granite.
We have seen that the circulation of money is but the manifestation of the metamorphoses of commodities, or of the form under which the social interchange of matter takes place.
This chain of payments or of supplementary first metamorphoses of commodities is qualitatively different from the chain of metamorphoseswhich is formed by the circulation of money as a circulating medium.
Sooner or later it again leaves the hands of the seller, who turns buyer, to pass into the hands of a new seller and this frequently repeated change of place forms the interlacing of the metamorphoses of commodities.
Coming back now to C―M―C, or to circulation as a whole, it is apparent that it contains the combined series of metamorphosesthrough which a commodity passes.
If the exchange values of commodities and the average rapidity of their metamorphoses are given, the quantity of gold in circulation depends on its own value.
On the other hand, the process of circulation is nothing but the movement of metamorphoses in the world of commodities and, therefore, must reflect them also in its movement as a whole.
For the existence of the two sets of metamorphoses suggests the possibility of a connection between them.
In tint their metamorphoses are those of the same substance.
Only one class of bodies known to us can account for these metamorphoses and that is: cloud.
With increased detection the markings they reveal and the metamorphoses they undergo, while pointing away from water, point as directly to vegetation.
See the story of Jupiter and Danaë, the daughter of Acrisius, king of Argos, in the Metamorphoses of Ovid, B.
See an interesting passage on the ancient weaving, in the Metamorphoses of Ovid, B.
In periods yet to come the endless succession of metamorphoses will still go on, a series of universes to which there is no end.
The metamorphoses feigned by the poets of antiquity have hence a foundation in fact, and the vegetable and animal, the organic and inorganic worlds are indissolubly bound together.
All thesemetamorphoses are adduced as the results of Satanic agencies and proofs of the tendency of evil spirits to manifest themselves in bestial forms.
It is said that Sandys, whom Dryden calls the best versifier of the last age, has struggled hard to comprise every book of his English Metamorphoses in the same number of verses with the original.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "metamorphoses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
