Some insects go through several metamorphoses before finally reaching their adult state. From LearnThat.org.
Thought is the highest point of a series of ascending metamorphoses, which is called nature. From Wordnik.com. [Amiel's Journal] Reference
Love worked strange metamorphoses, as he does always. From Wordnik.com. [An Old Meerschaum From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)] Reference
Ametabolion: an insect that has no distinct metamorphoses. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Collective humanity has gone through distinctive metamorphoses. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
With the metamorphoses of various insects Aristotle was well acquainted. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
A week after their reciprocal metamorphoses, Billy decided to make a move. From Wordnik.com. [Sympathy] Reference
Twenty perfect seconds in which Chuck Berry metamorphoses into Albert King. From Wordnik.com. [His Saddest Song] Reference
Her beauty, which was marvelous, served her well in all these metamorphoses. From Wordnik.com. [International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850] Reference
Time, that elusive and intangible enigma, metamorphoses into a richness of moment. From Wordnik.com. [ALS and Stem Cell Research] Reference
Americans had defined themselves against had each undergone irreversible metamorphoses. From Wordnik.com. [On Borrowed Ground: Free African-American life in Charleston, South Carolina 1810-61] Reference
These various metamorphoses would imply that transmigration was believed in by our forefathers. From Wordnik.com. [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference
By these metamorphoses the circle loses much of its monotony, without losing much of its simplicity. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860] Reference
There is an interest in tracing through these metamorphoses the essential unity of a man's character. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
But I expect that Dr. King and his legacy will go through several additional metamorphoses as time goes along. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 4, 2002] Reference
As Dren metamorphoses she draws her makers into deviant, transgressive behaviour as parents, victims and lovers. From Wordnik.com. [Splice] Reference
These transformations do not correspond to our common idea of metamorphoses, as observed in the Insect, for instance. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862] Reference
Literary life presents many changes, metamorphoses, which in thoroughness are not very much inferior to those of Ovid. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915] Reference
I did not ask any more questions, and henceforth I accustomed myself every year to the various metamorphoses of my aunt. From Wordnik.com. [French and Oriental Love in a Harem] Reference
When the time comes for Coraline's horrific showdown with her Other Mother, who metamorphoses into a frightening amalgam of. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Top Stories] Reference
So the old schoolhouse gets to keep its old New York face as it metamorphoses into brand-new, prime residential real estate. From Wordnik.com. [Marty Richards Plots His Apartment Swap, Collects $17 Million] Reference
With a battery of cameras tripped by electrical switches he captures minute metamorphoses too quick for the blinking human eye. From Wordnik.com. [Eadweard Muybridge: pioneer photographer] Reference
Ametabola - ous: insects without obvious metamorphoses, in which the larvae usually resemble the adult and the pupae are active. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
It is only in the annihilation of the intervals of time between different forms of existence that these old metamorphoses, which. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859] Reference
"American Idol" knock-offs have taken the Muslim world by storm, but not without first undergoing distinct cultural metamorphoses. From Wordnik.com. [Heather Ferguson: Why Islamic History Offers New Reasons to Support Democracy in Egypt, the Middle East] Reference
Roanoke Rapids and I've seen — in my lifetime, that plant go through huge metamorphoses, of what it produces, the types of things. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Gordon Berkstresser III, April 29, 1986. Interview H-0263. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
A more intense impression of what these metamorphoses actually mean is achieved by altering our mode of contemplation in the following way. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
The large panels of the staircase are hung with splendid tapestry, from designs by Boucher, representing the different metamorphoses of Jupiter. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Swammerdam studied the metamorphoses of insects and made wonderfully minute dissections of all sorts of animals, snails and insects particularly. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
As such they represent metamorphoses, in the Goethean sense, of the levity-gravity interaction represented by the optically visible part of the spectrum. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
Beginning with man, let us see what becomes of him in course of time, what physical metamorphoses he undergoes, to what vile but excellent uses he is put. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859] Reference
Glib, charming and quick to change sides, Sihanouk went through more metamorphoses than a whole dynasty of butterflies, raising inconsistency to an art form. From Wordnik.com. [Cambodia: Father Knows Best] Reference
In this country of metamorphoses the hare never had the right of citizenship; it was compelled to yield to the rabbit, and the rabbit -- how happy the rats are!. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 377, June 27, 1829] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
But this is not necessary: it might simply imply a feeling for analogy, for a web of correspondences, a rhetoric of metamorphoses in which everything reflects everything else. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
He confirmed in its essentials Reichert's account of the metamorphoses of the first two visceral arches, describing how the rudiment of the skeleton of the first arch appears as. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
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