Peter was his courteous, gentle, interested self, more like the old Peter, who had always been occupied with his music and his books, than like the passionately Metamorphosed Peter who had been so changed by love for Cherry.
"Sisters"
Kathleen Norris
The bashful young fellow, who at table scarcely spoke unless he was spoken to, and who rarely accepted an invitation to join the family at tea, for fear of transgressing some rule of social life, was suddenly Metamorphosed by Bertha's arrival.
"Quicksands"
Adolph Streckfuss
Army ants have no insignia to lay aside, and their swords are too firmly hafted in their own beings to be hung up as post-bellum mural decorations, or-as is done only in poster-land-Metamorphosed into pruning-hooks and plowshares.
"Edge of the Jungle"
William Beebe