Example Sentences

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Burly, bearded Russian Michael Bakunin was transmuting his biologic impotence into an ardent anarchism-of-the-deed that longed to send the whole world up in smoke.

From Time Magazine Archive

A curious light, that seemed to rise from below rather than to descend from above, was transmuting the whiteness of the sands.

From The Garden of Allah by Hichens, Robert Smythe

Think, Reader, if I marveled when I saw the thing stand quiet in itself, while in its image it was transmuting itself.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright

Think, Reader, if I marvelled when I saw the thing stand quiet in itself, while in its image it was transmuting itself.

From Divine Comedy, Norton's Translation, Purgatory by Norton, Charles Eliot

The hour was very early, and the newly risen sun was transmuting into diamonds the dewdrops that still lingered on the lawn.

From Scaramouche by Sabatini, Rafael