Mythological shape-shifter

Usage examples of proteus.

Far from feeling any surprise that some of the cave-animals should be very anomalous, as Agassiz has remarked in regard to the blind fish, the Amblyopsis, and as is the case with the blind Proteus with reference to the reptiles of Europe, I am only surprised that more wrecks of ancient life have not been preserved, owing to the less severe competition to which the inhabitants of these dark abodes will probably have been exposed.

Proteus supposed they might easily be taken for pirates, except that few people would believe that pirates could be so bold here near the center of Colchian power.

Everybody else in the lab used cream but the immunologist assigned to the Proteus project.

The man who intends to make his fortune in this ancient capital of the world must be a chameleon susceptible of reflecting all the colours of the atmosphere that surrounds him--a Proteus apt to assume every form, every shape.

Jason that the sneaking murderers of Telamon and Meleager had expected him, Proteus, to help them butcher Jason too.

For all Proteus could tell, he might well have been one of the boatload of servants who had been scheduled to attend the Argonauts, before Jason and the others woke up to the fact that their narrow ship lacked room for so many non-Heroic bodies.

In an effort to discover how much local resentment, if any, the fight had created, Proteus and several other Argonauts strolled to a different quayside tavern where they entered as casual customers.

Old Proteus there, planted among the Argonauts so he could betray them.

Proteus got the impression from listening that the land they were bound for, Colchis, must lie somewhere at the far end of the earth.

But even as he spoke, Proteus recalled the improved progress of the ship when he was rowing, his tireless muscles, his easy swim through freezing water under icebergs, his consistent success at catching fish.

His lack of eagerness did not matter, because the brawl, such as it was, was very nearly over by the time the first of his shipmates reached the tavern doorway, where Proteus looked in just in time to see Meleager felled by a thick glass bottle bouncing off the back of his head.

Proteus, along with most of his shipmates, stood back with folded arms, watching with keen interest.

Proteus, along with the great majority of his shipmates, could only shake his head in wonder.

As far as Proteus could tell, none of his shipmates had yet become aware of this phenomenon.

Proteus, that the grandsons of Aeetes were going to be of less help than their shipmates had been fondly hoping.