Transmute

She was awake but slowly drifting off, in that state where memories clarify magically as they begin to transmute themselves into dreams.

Her eyes were glowing, but he noticed even at that moment that the glow was on the surface only and altered the nature of the drowsing depths no more than moonlight on a pond can transmute more than the face of the dark metallic water into silver.

God's M.O., he reflected, is to transmute evil into good.

Now only a few of the older order remained, and they no longer even pretended to transmute metals... ...but they could make wildfire.

Yet the spirit can for the time pervade and control every member and function of the body, and transmute what in form is the grossest sensuality into purity and devotion.

This was the backbone of his hypothesis that the virus was able to transmute itself from a biologically transmitted string of DNA into a set of behaviors." "What behaviors?

The moment began to transmute, and he wondered if there was something he should do.

Not—I believe—because he saw it as his poetic duty to get close to the center of events and transmute them into literature.