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{95} The notion soon spread to Europe, and Constantinople took it up with enthusiasm; monasteries and convents sprang up in all directions, and soon became either popular resorts of penitent princes, statesmen, or others who wished to obtain some reputation for holiness to enable them to restart their old life with a clean sheet, or else the enforced retreat of emperors and empresses, patriarchs, and courtiers who had fallen from favour and were removed with more or less ceremony from the scene of their former activities. — from The Passing of the Turkish Empire in Europe by B. Granville (Bernard Granville) Baker
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produced rhythmical or periodic precipitations strikingly
So in a somewhat modified method Leduc, by causing the diffusion of a solution in a gelatine film, produced rhythmical or periodic precipitations strikingly reminiscent of various organic tissues, for here also the process of periodic repetition is imitated with success. — from Problems of Genetics by William Bateson
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