metamorphose

• Note: The music bed between sets is the william orbit remix of pierre henry's "psyche rock" taken from the 1997 album metamorphose -- messe pour le temps present featuring the music of pierre henry and michel colombier (FFRR / polygram 4562942). —  WFMU's recent playlists
• But instead of greeting us with his usual heartiness, and cracking his pleasant jokes, to our amazement, he did little else but scowl; and at last, when we rallied him upon his ill- temper, he seized a long black rammer from overhead, and drove us on deck; threatening to report us, if we ever dared to be familiar with him again My top-mates thought that this remarkable metamorphose was the effect produced upon a weak, vain character suddenly elevated from the level of a mere seaman to the dignified position of a petty officer_. —  White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War
• When tadpoles were placed in a perforated box, and that box sunk in the Seine, light being the only condition thus abstracted, they grew to a great size in their original form, but did not pass through the usual metamorphose which brings them to their mature state as frogs. —  Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
• What a metamorphose! if it don't stagger —  Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky
• Now the pitcher, as this is called, is not a new organ, but simply a metamorphose of a leaf. —  Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation

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