Literary notes about changed (AI summary)
In literature, the word "changed" serves as a versatile indicator of transformation, spanning physical movement, emotional shifts, and even alterations in tone or textual form. Authors use it to mark a relocation or modification in environment, as in the repositioning of tradesmen in old London [1] or the transition of weather from rain to snow [2]. It also conveys internal transformations—a character's sudden reversal of decision [3, 4, 5], a shift in mood or expression [6, 7, 8], or a deeper change in character as seen in metamorphoses of personality [9, 10]. In other cases, "changed" reflects the stability or continuity of nature and text, whether highlighting moments of constancy amid alterations [11, 12] or noting the careful correction of language in a manuscript [13, 14]. Thus, from the literal to the metaphorical, "changed" encapsulates how both external circumstances and inner selves are in constant flux.
- Men of trades and sellers of wares in this city have oftentimes since changed their places, as they have found their best advantage.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow - It was just about sundown, and it was turning cold—the rain had changed to snow, and the slush was freezing.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair - A WEDDING GIFT For a long time Jacques Bourdillere had sworn that he would never marry, but he suddenly changed his mind.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant - I dug another quarter out of my pocket, then changed my mind.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow - I used to say I did not like arithmetic very well, but now I have changed my mind.
— from The Story of My Life by Helen Keller - He spoke again after a little while, but the tone was rather changed: there was tenderness mingled with the previous self-reproach.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot - "O cruel heart," she changed her tone, "And cruel love, whose end is scorn, Is this the end to be left alone, To live forgotten, and die forlorn!"
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Baron Alfred Tennyson Tennyson - To her surprise the surly old weather-beaten face actually changed its expression.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett - After Helen's death he was a changed creature; no longer a wild boy, but a man.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott - Their spirits once roused were, however, not diminished, but only changed character.
— from War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy - Nothing was changed.
— from Twenty years after by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet - Some things had not changed.
— from The Marching Morons by C. M. Kornbluth - Footnote #29: "fiction, imitiating him" changed to "fiction, imitating him".
— from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana by Vatsyayana - , “Voronica” changed to “Veronica” ( Veronica.
— from The Complete Herbal by Nicholas Culpeper