| His younger brother Paul, however, has transmuted from true-blue Tory to one of Labour's boys. |
| Alchemists never transmuted metals, never found a panacea, and never discovered the fountain of youth. |
| Subsequently, Dippel turned to alchemy and claimed to have discovered a secret formula by which he transmuted silver and mercury into pure gold. |
| In the hands of the Latin American magical realist, Gauguin's story has been transmuted into a lush story of frenzy, in vivid chromatic colours. |
| The arrow-like pointedness of jealousy is transmuted into efficient action. |
| Others purported to have transmuted metals or concocted elixirs and sold their recipes to others. |
