chrysalid

During this interesting period, which might be called their chrysalid state, they are twisted and turned, sometimes sawn asunder, parts lopped off here and applied elsewhere, and all those radical changes made which would utterly destroy anything possessed of protean possibilities inferior to those of the common Western frame house.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. Various

Like the caterpillar who enters a chrysalid, we surrender to death to our ways and enter the maze of waiting, and if we wait patiently enough, in His time we emerge into the transformation needed, and wonderfully possible, in whatever phase of our lives we are.

The Inner Maze of Waiting Meg 2009

Charlie was nearly two years old and I was emerging from the introverted, chrysalid stage of early motherhood.

Little Bee Chris Cleave 2008

Charlie was nearly two years old and I was emerging from the introverted, chrysalid stage of early motherhood.

Little Bee Chris Cleave 2008

Charlie was nearly two years old and I was emerging from the introverted, chrysalid stage of early motherhood.

Little Bee Chris Cleave 2008

It feels like a metamorphosis, and my phase as a chrysalid is nearing a close.

spectre12 Diary Entry spectre12 2005

But, for all that, there had been intervals, ere his thirteen years 'exile ended, in which, so far from regret, he experienced a certain joy at remembrance of this rough and rugged point of time where he had escaped from the chrysalid state to one of action and freedom and real life.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 Various

From the room across the hall she brought Celia, a chrysalid child, sleeping heavily, closely wrapped in an old plaid shawl, and laid her on Joel's bed.

Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale Harriet L. Smith

One might, perhaps, get a hint by watching the living chrysalid of a potential moon-moth wriggle back into its cocoon -- but little is to be learned from human teaching.

Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919

Somehow, someway, her caterpillar wormhood had carried, through the mummified chrysalid and the reincarnation of her present form, knowledge of an earlier, infinitely coarser diet.

Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919