chrysalissed

“Yes. Warm for April, isn’t it?” answered the embryo summer girl, who was still chrysalissed in broadcloth and a gray fedora.

1898, Edna Stanton, “Sense, and Nonsense, on Wheels”, in The Cap and Gown, third volume, […] the University of Chicago […], page 225

We walk our narrow path to nowhere safely trussed up in our personal selves: or we not so much walk at all, as lie still, chrysalissed in them:—it may be just as well, since for lack of the quality of balance, we are about as capable of walking at ease and dignity as is a jellyfish of doing Blondin on the tight-rope.

1920, Kenneth Morris, “The Crest-Wave of Evolution: A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates’ Class in the Râja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College Year 1918-1919. XXI — China and Rome: The See-Saw (continued)”, in Katherine Tingley, editor, The Theosophical Path: Illustrated Monthly, volume XIX, Point Loma, Calif.: […] the New Century Corporation, page 540

But I’m not a princess in a fairy tale, chrysalissed against time, she thought rebelliously.

1944, Theda Kenyon, Black Dawn, New York, N.Y.: Julian Messner, Inc., page 132