transformation-scene

The drive was bordered all through with flowers from the rectory garden, and Lionnet too had been ransacked, and the hall was festooned from end to end with garlands, like a transformation-scene in a pantomime.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 Various

She believed in some place she called heaven, and had a vague notion that it was like a sort of religious transformation-scene, millions of miles away, up somewhere in the sky.

Austin and His Friends Frederic H. Balfour

The change from broad daylight, in which every outline and detail of the landscape was accented strongly, to the dim, mystic and diffused radiance of the moon and stars was like an episode in a transformation-scene at the theatre.

Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray

It represented popes and emperors tumbling headlong into a terrible abyss, while the world's benefactors were ascending in a sort of theatrical transformation-scene.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Various

The dusk was falling, and the snow beginning to lie thick, as he entered the dark gorge of the Clough; but to him darkness and light were alike, and as for the snow, it was more than a transformation-scene is to the petted child of a jaded civilization.

Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather

We came along first, so there had to be another transformation-scene, which I have partially disturbed.

On the Heels of De Wet Lionel James 1913

Then occurs a gradual transformation-scene both to the eye and the ear.

The Wagnerian Romances Gertrude Hall Brownell 1912

As the sun rose, a kind of transformation-scene took place.

The Moccasin Ranch A Story of Dakota Hamlin Garland 1900

It is, however, almost worth while to go through the freak-splendours and transformation-scene excitements of _Fortunio_ to prepare the palate [212] to enjoy _La Toison d'Or_ which follows.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

"Have you been at the pantomime," she continued earnestly, "when there was what they call a transformation-scene?"

My Friend Prospero Henry Harland 1883