The peasants who found the urns, imagining this precious liquor to be common water, spilt every drop, so that the art of Transmuting metals remains as much a secret as ever.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
They take the whole body and soul of young and intellectual people who are interesting, Transmuting the body to a body like their own.
"The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries"
W. Y. Evans Wentz
And, after all, in spite of the Transmuting power of wealth, of changed circumstances and surroundings, human nature has always a tendency to seek and revert to its old level; to find most pleasure and ease in the society of those who are as it once was.
"A Poached Peerage"
William Magnay