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By 1897 almost all the leading whist players had succumbed to the attractions of the new game, and even the whist authority "Cavendish" (Henry Jones), who had refused for a period in 1897 98 to enter the Portland Club because whist had been all but abandoned there, was converted to bridge before his death in 1899.

There are converted mill buildings along the Jones Falls river.

Moody left his mother's farm at 17 to work in Boston and there was converted from Unitarianism to fundamentalist evangelicalism.

"There's the idea of a two-state solution in the abstract, and then there's converting it into a map," said Mr. Gold, a former peace negotiator and Netanyahu adviser.

It's a huge capital investment so we wanted to know that whoever was teaching in there was converting their courses appropriately".

There he was converted to Christianity, but, on being reproved for practicing pagan astrology, he returned to Judaism.

An austerely furnished back chamber -- once known as the Dying Room because Austin and his younger son, Gilbert, had each died there -- was converted by Martha into a study, where she prepared her Aunt Emily's poems and letters for publication.

A handful of Victorian houses there have been converted to bed-and-breakfast establishments and seem to be doing a brisk business.

The old whaling station there has been converted to a museum dedicated to the whales.

There it is converted by the enzyme DOPA decarboxylase to L-[C]dopamine and stored in storage vesicles.

But there are converts and Leicester's colour is an increasingly common sight around the capital.