Part of the Seljuk and Türkman success in breaking local economies and sense of Orthodox patrida in Anatolia comes from the way in which they extinguished these local shrines and their lands, for once a pilgrim town has been wrecked it is very difficult to revive.

By all indications, the closet was just where the killah left her. He flipped through his notebook and then back, verifying his info. Good cop, Bubo thought. Thorough. Yup, he said, tapping the page. “By all indications, it looks like she got herself yoinked someplace else.”

2009, Nigel D. Swarts and Kingsley W. Dixon, “Terrestrial orchid conservation in the age of extinction”, in Annals of Botany, volume 104, page 543:

Thus they went on talking of what they had ſeen by the way; and ſo made that way eaſie, which would otherwiſe, no doubt, have been tedious to them; for now they went through a Wilderneſs.