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gently
The editors preface each of the sections with clear and instructive commentary, gently introducing the issues and pointing out areas of difficulty and intractability.
Vials were rocked gently during the invasion assay.
An icy wind in this place gently glazes your ear, a mix of wistful long ing and dy ing gasp.
The overlying glass slide was then placed gently back on top of the chamber, which was then returned to the incubator.
Such features can make the pseudocleft into a highly allusive vehicle for gently prefacing the declination component.
Even the mere sound of that language gently touched and stirred the inner cord of my heart.
Stratigraphic models depict continental margin sedimentation in ever greater numbers, but studies of their real sedimentary sequences have, with exceptions, gently slipped into the background.
Doublure incurved, narrow, gently decreasing in size anteriorly, and bearing at least two low terrace ridges.
The area is characterized by a flat to gently rolling landscape with altitudes ranging from 900 to 1200 m asl.
A gently jerky toccata follows, as flute and strings chuck phrases at each other.
The contents of the litterbags were then gently brushed clean, and weighed.
The topography was gently rolling, with thick peat extending in the lower parts and white sandy soils dominating in the upper parts.
Topography in the study area was gently undulating at an elevation of about 120 m asl.
One gently restrained the cat in the sternal position at the center of a circular table.
The aspirated cytoplasm and the spermatozoon were then gently ejected into the cytoplasm and the needle was withdrawn.
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