All 19 Uses
transfigure
in
Les Miserables
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- Let a notary transfigure himself into a deputy: let a false Corneille compose Tiridate;†
Chpt 1.1
- But if one remained near him for a few hours, and beheld him in the least degree pensive, the fine man became gradually transfigured, and took on some imposing quality, I know not what; his broad and serious brow, rendered august by his white locks, became august also by virtue of meditation; majesty radiated from his goodness, though his goodness ceased not to be radiant; one experienced something of the emotion which one would feel on beholding a smiling angel slowly unfold his wings, without ceasing to smile.†
Chpt 1.1transfigured = completely changed the nature or appearance of
- Great sorrow is a divine and terrible ray, which transfigures the unhappy.†
Chpt 1.5 *
- Thenceforth, M. Madeleine was transfigured in Fantine's eyes.†
Chpt 1.6transfigured = completely changed the nature or appearance of
- But this painful respiration hardly troubled a sort of ineffable serenity which overspread her countenance, and which transfigured her in her sleep.†
Chpt 1.8
- A wonderful joy had transfigured this old man.†
Chpt 2.5
- On crossing that magic threshold, he becomes transfigured; he was the street Arab, he becomes the titi.†
Chpt 3.1
- this does not prevent vagabondism, and that enormous genius which is called Paris, while transfiguring the world by its light, sketches in charcoal Bouginier's nose on the wall of the temple of Theseus and writes Credeville the thief on the Pyramids.†
Chpt 3.1
- To appear and to reign, to march and to triumph, to have for halting-places all capitals, to take his grenadiers and to make kings of them, to decree the falls of dynasties, and to transfigure Europe at the pace of a charge; to make you feel that when you threaten you lay your hand on the hilt of the sword of God; to follow in a single man, Hannibal, Caesar, Charlemagne; to be the people of some one who mingles with your dawns the startling announcement of a battle won, to have the cannon of the Invalides to rouse you in the morning, to hurl into abysses of light prodigious words which flame forever, Marengo, Arcola, Austerlitz, Jena, Wagram!†
Chpt 3.4
- You go on falling from gearing to gearing, from agony to agony, from torture to torture, you, your mind, your fortune, your future, your soul; and, according to whether you are in the power of a wicked creature, or of a noble heart, you will not escape from this terrifying machine otherwise than disfigured with shame, or transfigured by passion.†
Chpt 3.6transfigured = completely changed the nature or appearance of
- As soon as twilight descended, the old elephant became transfigured; he assumed a tranquil and redoubtable appearance in the formidable serenity of the shadows.†
Chpt 4.6
- The war of the street was suddenly transfigured by some unfathomable inward working of his soul, before the eye of his thought.†
Chpt 4.13
- The immense gleam of the whole combat which he had missed, and in which he had had no part, appeared in the brilliant glance of the transfigured drunken man.†
Chpt 5.1
- On the funeral pile, in shipwreck, one can be great; in the flames as in the foam, a superb attitude is possible; one there becomes transfigured as one perishes.†
Chpt 5.3
- He was less the man transfigured than the victim of this prodigy.†
Chpt 5.4
- were there cases in which the law should retire before transfigured crime, and stammer its excuses?†
Chpt 5.4
- It was an exquisite candor expanding and becoming transfigured in the light.†
Chpt 5.6
- Cosette, as she took her flight, winged and transfigured, left behind her on the earth her hideous and empty chrysalis, Jean Valjean.†
Chpt 5.7
- The convict was transfigured into Christ.†
Chpt 5.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(transfigure) change completely the nature or appearance of -- especially in a positive way
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)