rejuvenescence

• “The pollen cells are formed from mother cells by a process of cell division and subsequent setting free of the daughter cells or pollen cells by rejuvenescence, which is distinctly comparable with that of the formation of the microspores of Lycopodiaceæ, etc. The subsequent behavior of the pollen cell, its division and its fertilization of the germinal vesicle or oosphere, leave no doubt as to its analogy with the microspore of vascular cryptogams.”

  Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886

• “There are some mechanical aids in reading which may prove of great utility, and form a kind of rejuvenescence of our early studies.”

  Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions

• “Chaucer, upon which this kind of rejuvenescence has been bestowed by”

  Lives of the Poets, Volume 1

• “Japanese the type of permanence up to a generation ago, when he suddenly awoke and startled the world with a rejuvenescence the like of which the world had never seen before.”

  The Yellow Peril

• “A vast sense of rejuvenescence pervades the significant classes, a sense of new importance in the world.”

  American Stasi

• “Physically the Great Change did not do so very much to reinvigorate her — she had lived in that dismal underground kitchen in Clayton too long for any material rejuvenescence — she glowed out indeed as a dying spark among the ashes might glow under a draught of fresh air — and assuredly it hastened her end.”

  In the Days of the Comet

• “These great conjurors are generally sought for in the City; and in truth the cauldrons are kept boiling though the result of the process is seldom absolute rejuvenescence.”

  The Way We Live Now

• “This rejuvenescence was noticeable within two hours after her death; & when I went down again (2. 3o) it was complete.”

  Mark Twain: A Biography

• “Never had the garden looked more meetly set, never had the sun shone more genially, and the air impelled the blood and sent it coursing more joyously through his veins, than on that morning of the rejuvenescence of all his high ideals.”

  Austin and His Friends

• “You have in yourself another kind of grace, another wit, another coquetry, and above all that rejuvenescence of heart and mind which those women have never had.”

  The French Immortals Series — Complete

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