Those had noted that the man had reverted to his basic name and dropped the final portion.
He remembered some lines of Nietzsche about how easily man reverted to savagery.
After getting a specific apple for him, the old man reverts into a young man and reveals he was under a spell.
A frightened man always reverts to the predictable, Corky liked to say.
If the man had reverted to living like an Indian, he would certainly be in the forest.
However, man soon reverts to a state in which he waits for God to return.
In a way it was touching: the old man reverting to the mind control exercises he had learned as a child.
Should a divorce or death take place, these men can revert to their status as xaniths at the next wedding.
He thought at one point that the man would revert to flailing at the tunnel walls with white fire again.
Carried away, perhaps, by their unnerving proximity to something approaching love, the men suddenly revert to play again.