The head-covering alluded to, when first purchased, is what might be called a hat, but the wearers invariably take particular pains to transform the article into such queer shapes as to render it indescribable.
The larvae transform into the non-feeding pupal stage and finally into an adult in the summer of the second year thus completing a two year life cycle.
After five or six weeks the larvae construct pupal chambers in the pith or wood of the terminal shoot and transform into adults.
The larvae pupate the following spring or early summer, transform into adults, and emerge that same season.
People in the interior of Africa who understand magic, transform themselves into lions and go about killing people.
Livingston met in Africa a native said to have power to transform himself into a lion.
In times of peace, during the long winter evenings, some famous storyteller told of those days in the past when men and animals could transform themselves at will and hold converse with one another.
In Banana, Africa, the members of a certain family transform themselves in the dark of the forest into leopards.
When they grew older, she discovered one day that they could transform themselves into real children.
Perhaps they may get that in time; at present they go away growling with a gaugership; or, having with desperate dexterity at length contrived to transform a tidewaiter into a landwaiter.
Well, besides the hush money, my client is to defray all the expense of attempting to transform the descendant of the silkweaver of Lyons into the heir of a Norman conqueror.
These disorders, which are relatively slight and do not provoke in the economy any of those changes which in some sort transform the constitution, are not absolutely proof against relapse.
Witch-hazel twigs ripening indoors transform a peaceful living room into a defenseless target for light artillery practice.
In a brook, pond, spring, or wayside trough, which can never be far from its haunts, dip a spray of the plant to transform the leaves into glistening silver.
Favourable circumstances will not change a man's heart or transform his nature, but unpropitious circumstances may render it absolutely impossible for him to escape, no matter how he may desire to extricate himself.
No change in circumstances, no revolution in social conditions, can possibly transform the nature of man.
Without that discovery the steam engine, which has itself been an invention of quite recent years, would have failed totransform civilisation.
A special role, however, is played by the phosphorus, which shows that the assimilative power of the plant is sufficient to transform phosphorus from a physically not traceable state into one of spatially bounded materiality.
We should become part of the tone-process itself, forced to transform it by the volitional part of our astral organization into spatial movement.
We then endeavoured to transform within our mind the single memory pictures (leaf forms) into one another.
Everywhere, indeed, we see this tendency to transform Longobard institutions into Roman, so that often nothing is left to the former save the name.
In their oral form stories of this kind are not definite, their substance is malleable; they can be modified according to the taste of the narrator; they transform themselves; they evolve.
There are certain ideas and feelings which do not come into being or do not transform themselves into acts except in the case of individuals forming a crowd.
Its discoveries having been innumerable, was it not legitimate to suppose that by applying it to the construction of societies it would entirely transform them?
The result of such a conscious effort to communicate an experience is to transform it.
No longer that morbid humility struggling in vain to transform itself into a violent self-assertion.
All your angelic compassion can't transform you from a woman into an angel, especially when you see, at every glance in your mirror, the charms that a moment of generosity has made futile.
The delicious days of summer at hand would transform the work of the toiling fishermen to pleasure, and all things would bloom and smile about the poor people on the lonely rock!
Every drop of rain wears for him its Iris drapery; the dew on the flowers becomes a jewelled circlet; and the dazzling pictures brought by the sunbeams outshine and transform for him his own dusky garment.
Sidenote: The Post-Kantians Transform Kant's Mind-in-general into an Absolute Mind.
Similarly the last touch of the brush may transform an inchoate mass of color into a picture, disarray into an object of beauty; and its beauty mingles not with ugliness.
The last word may transform the sentence from nonsense into sense, and it would be true to say that its sense mingles not with nonsense.
The piety that could convert a prison into a sanctuary, and transform sufferings into an occasion for joy and thanksgiving, must have been elevated and sincere, however mingled with enthusiasm.
Oh, cleanse me in a Saviour's blood, Transform me by thy power, And make me thy beloved abode, And let me rove no more.
Long plunged in sorrow, I resign My soul to that dear hand of thine, Without reserve or fear; That hand shall wipe my streaming eyes; Or into smiles of glad surprise Transform the falling tear.
Moreover, it could not have become an official code; it would be impossible to transform into so many laws either the discordant texts which Gratian endeavoured to reconcile or his own Dicta; a treatise on canon Law is not a code.
With regard to Emir Foisul's position there is no news except that the Mandates of Britain and France transform his military title into a civil title.
We cannot remain on this plain, that the rain is going to transform into a marsh!
His greatest pleasure was to transform Dingo into a swift steed, and it is safe to affirm that a horse of this kind is much superior to a pasteboard quadruped, even when it has wheels to its feet.
A finished or perfect organism cannot gradually transform itself into another.
Whether Japan will be the master who is to transform the Asiatic races is another puzzling problem.
One thing which even more prevents any feeling of coldness arising between them is that, far from trying to transform and educate the conquered nation, the conquerors often stoop to the low level of the subjugated people.
Japan is establishing modern schools, and desires to transform young and old alike.
After securing the monopoly of intoxicating the people through their own bartenders, the nobles propose to transform the bulk of the Jews into export agents, to find foreign markets for the agrarian, i.
The South Russian population, though politically and agriculturally dependent upon the Poles, was far from being that patient "beast of burden" into which the rule of serfdom tried to transform it.
Butrymovich supplied the pamphlet with a new title ("A Means whereby to Transform the Polish Jews into Useful Citizens of the Country"), and garnished it with comments of his own.
And when it was known that thou wast come to dwell in the land, my household came and besought me to transform them into mice, that they might destroy thy corn.
The third night my wife came unto me, and the ladies of the court, and besought me to transform them.
But would the fire also possess the power to lead Eva, as it were, from heaven to earth, and transform her into an energetic woman, symmetrical in thought and deed?
To be able to struggle and conquer, she must not withdraw from life and its influences, which, if she did not spare herself, promised to transform her into the resolute woman she desired to become.
The Emperor meant totransform Germany into a sheepfold, Absbach exclaimed.
But the forge fire of life must not transform her into a rose; she would become harder, firmer, and she knew why and for whose sake.
Oh, if misfortune would draw her again as near to him as during the early months of their married life and directly before it, he could rise from his depression with fresh vigour and transform the battle, now half lost, into victory.
