Then it is that thisProtean country offers its most impressive aspect.
It was becoming a crawling horror to him in its every protean phase, whether flecked with ghastly lights in storms or haunted by pallid shapes in colour--always, always it remained repugnant to him under its eternal curse of endless motion.
Even here," Recklow was saying, in a voice made low and cautious from habit, "the dirty Boche prowl among us under protean aspects.
It is time to proceed to the symptoms of this disease; but here there is very considerable difficulty, for it is a truly protean malady, and it is impossible to fix on any symptom that will invariably characterise it.
Or was it, after all, nothing but a variant, one of the Protean shapes of the ancient, life-compelling mystery?
With all the restrictions to which despotism in France has subjected the press, its history as a whole is as Protean as Paris life, and reflects the tendencies of national character.
Influenza enters undoubtedly into the Protean infections of the sixteenth century, and is itself no small part of the Proteus.
That epidemic corresponded to a great prevalence of "influenza" on the continent, which was probably as Protean or composite as the fevers in England.
This arm was made by the notorious Protean Bob," said young Jack to his father.
If I were Protean Bob, Hunston would be too glad not to recognise me.
Not a day passed, but that he saw how fearfully was the legacy of vengeance bequeathed by the murdered Protean Bob being carried out.
In like manner, that divine Presence is Protean in its forms, and takes all shapes, according to the moment's necessities of the Christian trusting heart.
They possess less, and they enjoy fewer, luxuries than others; but they escape slavery in all the Protean shapes by which it ensnares the rest of mankind.
The mineral, carbonate of lime, assumes an immense diversity of characters, though no one doubts that, under all these Protean changes, is one and the same thing.
The Brute might seize her in one of his Protean forms, and she might disappear just as her fictitious mother had done.
This would seem too great a variation even in thisprotean species.
Quasi, for again in the fifth place, this all-pervasive protean force assumes many a phase which is exceedingly unlike the operations of a personal power.
The many' are 'the one,' its varying phrases, its protean raiment.
The inventor of Prince's Protean pen thinks a lady would do well to act as agent for the sale of his pens.
Protean in character, he could assume any shape he chose at will.
Here the Protean word Margaryte means 'the wisdom of god,' judging by the context; see note to l.
The author is, in fact, careful to warn us of the varying, the almost Protean sense of the word at p.
The one God is everything to us all, anything that we desire, and the thing that we need; Protean in His manifestations, one in His sufficiency.
How many a human being suffers from chronic constipation and indigestion, the exciting causes of which are insidious, and the consequences a protean enemy to his happiness!
But on the whole, the most important symptom of chronic inflammation of the lower bowel, and the most far-reaching in its morbific results, is that protean monster, chronic constipation.
It is this which made one observer say, "He is a protean god; he is supposed to appear to different persons in different forms.
At the same time, Preuss pointed out their Protean forms and their extreme plasticity which permits them to give themselves successively and almost concurrently to the most varied uses.
Thus the Australian clans frequently have something floating and Protean about them, while the corresponding organization in America has a greater stability and more clearly defined contours.
Hence his opinions are of necessity Proteanand multiform.
France, the dwelling-place of God in all His myriad aspects--in all His protean forms!
