Use centre in a sentence
Sentences ending with centre
- No one else would have found it so easy to forge the steel coat of mail with the Medusa head in the centre. [10]
- It was of wood (for use in summer only), octagon shaped, with a thatched roof, open in the centre. [4]
- The avenue is wide, and the tracks will be in a grass plot in the centre. [9]
- The effect of well-built, well-furnished, well-kept houses and of handsome grounds always maintained in good order about them shows itself in a large circuit around the fashionable centre. [6]
- But cottage life was never the exclusive affair that it is elsewhere; the society was one body, and the hotel was the centre. [4]
- I never was trained to think, and I get stunned by thoughts that strike me as being dug right out of the centre. [11]
- Jethro had begun to sweep the finer pieces of bark toward the centre. [9]
- They will be the distributing centre. [11]
- One of these specks magnified proves to be a crystalline sphere with an opaque mass in its centre. [6]
- You see that spade in the centre? [12]
Sentences containing centre two or more times
- He had ever loved to be the centre of a picture, but here was a time when to be in the centre was torture. [11]
More example sentences with the word centre in them
- Stand where you would, or change your position as often as you pleased, you were always a centre from which radiated a dozen long archways and colonnades that lost themselves in distance and the sombre twilight of the place. [5]
- Every real thinker's world of thought has its centre in a few formulae, about which they revolve as the planets circle round the sun which cast them off. [6]
- So it is with this dangerous transit between the centre of inhibition and the great organ of life. [6]
- He was standing with the group of marksmen, observing--a hundred yards from the target, mind; one jasper raised his rifle and drove the centre of the bull's-eye. [5]
- A huge chandelier with prisms hung over the flowers at the centre of the table, which sparkled with glass and silver, while dishes of vermilion and yellow fruits relieved the whiteness of the cloth. [9]
- Her glance lingered wistfully on the old farmhouse with its great centre chimney from which the smoke was curling, with its diamond-paned casements Insall had put into the tiny frames. [9]
- These two mountains, which belong to the great system of which Marcy is the giant centre, and are in the neighborhood of five thousand feet high, on the southern outposts of the great mountains, form the gate-posts of the pass into the south country. [4]
- Here in the West you are near the centre of a vast empire, you feel its mighty pulse, the throb and heartbeat of its immense and growing strength. [4]
- Here, as it were, round the bent and broken sides of a bowl, war raged, and the centre was like some caldron out of which imps of ships sprang and sailed to hand up fires of hell to the battalions on the ledges. [11]
- If a Chinaman were to see his master break up a centre table, in a passion, and kindle a fire with it, that Chinaman would be likely to resort to the furniture for fuel forever afterward. [5]
- You thought you were the centre of the world when you wrote that letter. [11]
- At the centre were Eldon Parr and Charlotte Gore. [9]
- This is a wedge, going to the centre, of the general shape of a slice of apple-pie in a large and not opulent family. [6]
- For this purpose we placed Cleopatra in the centre of a larger group of people, whom she influences, and who enable her personality to be displayed in the various relations of life. [10]
- Here in Memphis was the centre of administration of his property, and besides the offices for his private affairs were those he needed as a state official. [10]
- The Regent Ani was present, and sat on Ameni's right at the top of the centre high-table at which several places were unoccupied; for the prophets and the initiated of the temple of Amon had excused themselves from being present. [10]
- Here Mr. Gladstone was of course the centre of a group, to which I was glad to add myself. [6]
- The Withers Homestead was naturally the chief centre of interest. [6]
- The centre seat was higher and more richly decorated than the others. [10]
- This great building was filled, like this great theatre, with rejoicing villagers, and my friend and I started down the centre aisle. [5]
- In winter breakfast was eaten by the light of a rococo metal lamp set in the centre of the table. [9]
- The log meeting-house was deserted, but the court-house was the centre of such a swirling crowd as I had often seen at Harrodstown. [9]
- The lifeless form was concealed beneath a costly coverlid, in the centre of which lay an exquisitely-carved ivory crucifix. [10]
- In the centre was a toy man-of-war, three feet in length, with turrets and guns, and propellers and a real steam-engine. [9]
- I think it was a good stroke of luck that knocked me on my back here at Napier, instead of some hotel in the centre of a noisy city. [5]
- In the centre was a bunch of red roses in a pale-blue Granada jug. [4]
- It was completely wainscoted with wood, and from the centre of the richly-carved ceiling a strange picture gleamed in brilliant hues. [10]
- And in the very centre of the confusion was the captain himself. [9]
- And they showed us also a large "Fountain of Lazarus," and in the centre of the village the ancient dwelling of Lazarus. [5]
- A man darted up the centre, another up the side aisle. [9]
- She then walked up deliberately and steadily to the brink, stepped into the centre of the flame, sat down, and leaning back in the midst as if reposing upon a couch, was consumed without uttering a shriek or betraying one sign of agony. [5]
- When, after an unhappy marriage and many desolate days, she had regained her former bright cheerfulness and saw her house become the centre of the intellectual life of the city, she had striven until now to extend the same welcome to all her guests. [10]
- The speakers now turned down the path, sparsely shaded from the midday sun by a few trees, which led to the tank in the centre of the garden, and they went further and further from her. [10]
- They did not turn to see what it was, for just at that moment they themselves were the very centre of the universe. [11]
- Though his hand trembled constantly from an attack of palsy, I don't know now how many times he pierced the centre of the ace of hearts. [10]
- A post-village and township in _________ Co., State of _________,situated in a fine agricultural region, 2 thriving villages, Pigwacket Centre and Smithville, 3 churches, several school houses, and many handsome private residences. [6]
- Yet he shuddered, too, to think what might happen if it was all true, and discovery or reunion should shake to the centre the very life of the two long-parted ones. [11]
- Jethro went up to Wisdom once, in the centre of the state, and come back with her. [9]
- When she got to the centre of the very nose she was smelling she seemed suddenly to have lost her sense of smell and to have flanked over to the short pier. [7]
- He ran suddenly to the centre of the room, the candle still in his hand, and turned to meet his foe. [11]
- It was wonderful to see how his single personality pervaded this torpid little village; he seemed to be the centre of all its activities. [6]
- Lastly, he stole to Ledscha's home, and, knowing that her father was absent, had ventured as far as the open courtyard in the centre of the stately dwelling. [10]
- The expedition sent to Jerusalem to seize it got into trouble and could not accomplish the burglary, and so the centre of the mausoleum is vacant now. [5]
- We set out to find the centre of the city, inquiring the direction every now and then. [5]
- Dame Susannah intended to find him employment at a future date on her estates, or at Memphis, the centre of their administration, as he might prove himself capable. [10]
- He was left to be buried with a stake through his heart in the centre of four lonely roads. [12]
- Tahoe is one thousand five hundred and twenty-five feet deep in the centre, by the state geologist's measurement. [5]
- She settled herself, though she sat quite upright, in the geometrical centre of the horsehair sofa, and cleared her throat. [9]
- In a word, this house is the centre of attraction for all Hellenic interests in Egypt, and of more importance to us politically, than our temple, the Hellenion itself, and our hall of commerce. [10]
- This was a thing that used to be not very uncommon; but in so "intelligent" a community as that of Pigwacket Centre, in an era of public libraries and lyceum-lectures, it was portentous and alarming. [6]
- There was a thin chest of drawers on the other side, and the small coal stove that stood in the centre so nearly filled the remaining space that the two visitors were one too many. [4]
- Their appearance, when they were encamped on the Bowling Green, recalls the Homeric age: "In the centre, then, was pitched the tent of the men of battle of the Manhattoes, who, being the inmates of the metropolis, composed the lifeguards of the governor. [4]
- It is just there, in the very centre of our modern civilization, that one sees the crudest passions. [9]
- And you know there is no geographical centre any more. [5]
- The centre of the world is the Bank of England in Leadenhall Street. [4]
- From this piazza the wondering Ichabod entered the hall, which formed the centre of the mansion and the place of usual residence. [4]
- On the contrary, the whole force of this instinct throws itself on the centre of inhibition, instead of quickening the heart-beats, and sending the rush of youthful blood with fresh life through the entire system to the throbbing finger-tips. [6]
- The centre of the town is the old Spring House and grounds. [4]
- Like great seats the steppes of snow ranged round, and in the centre was a kind of plateau of ice, as it might seem a stage or an altar. [11]
- In front of the pulpit were simple decorations, boughs of pine covered the desk, and in their centre was a harp of yellow jonquils, the gift of Miss Louisa M. Alcott. [6]
- He was at the philanthropic centre of a good many movements which he watched others carrying out, as a calm and kindly spectator, without losing his common sense for a moment. [6]
- The centre of the opposite wall was occupied by two small windows surmounted by a broad, semicircular arch, and separated by a short Roman pillar. [10]
- The head of the Museum, who bore the title of "high priest," had also appeared there with several members of this famous centre of the intellectual life of the capital. [10]
- London is probably the most civilized centre the world has ever seen; there are gathered more of the elements of that which we reckon the best. [4]
- And the braver the man, the more she would have him in her service, at her feet, the centre of the world. [11]
- The centre of the lower story was formed by a lofty hall of vast dimensions, in whose midst were the large marble sarcophagi. [10]
- By official measurement the lake in its centre is one thousand five hundred and twenty-five feet deep! [5]
- The Moslem regards the Kaaba at Mecca as the centre of the universe; but that is only a theological phrase. [4]
- This intussusception of the ideas of inanimate objects, and their faithful storing away among the sentiments, are curiously prefigured in the material structure of the thinking centre itself. [6]
- Scientists say that the human system has two nerve-centres--one in the brain, to which and from which are telegraphed all movements depending upon the will, and another in the small of the back, the centre of the involuntary operations of respiration, digestion, and so on. [4]
- She read in the eyes of all that she was more than any other the centre of admiration. [6]
- As he opened the door, the Milesian features of Father McShane presented themselves, and from their centre proceeded the clerical benediction in Irish-sounding Latin, Pax vobiscum! [6]
- At that moment the door opened, and an alert, white-haired man stepped in quickly, and stopped in the centre of the room, looking at his visitor. [11]
- We emerged from the defile into an open basin, formed by the curved side of the mountain, and stood silent before a waterfall coming down out of the sky in the centre of the curve. [4]
- If he suspected the channel through which it had reached the little community, and, spreading from that centre, the country round, he did not see fit to make out of his suspicions a domestic casus belli. [6]
- All along under the centre of Virginia and Gold Hill, for a couple of miles, ran the great Comstock silver lode--a vein of ore from fifty to eighty feet thick between its solid walls of rock--a vein as wide as some of New York's streets. [5]
- She was in the centre of things. [9]
- The lamp in the centre of the table was a bronze column supporting a hemisphere of heavy red and emerald glass, the colours woven into an intricate and bizarre design, after the manner of the art nouveau--so the zealous salesman had informed them. [9]
- Crozier advanced to the centre of the room, even to the table laid for dinner, before he was conscious of some one in the room, of a figure by the chair. [11]
- They had reached the centre of the rampart, when she saw in the distance a tall figure stretched at full length. [10]
- The hall in the centre of the private roadstead of the royal harbour, where they had assembled, was furnished with regal magnificence; for it was a favourite resort of the Queen. [10]
- The throne occupies the centre of the platform, and is raised above it upon an elevation of four steps. [5]
- She turned toward the centre of the lake. [4]
- It is in the centre of the church, and immediately under the great dome. [5]
- Are we not the centre of something? [6]
- Washington is in the centre of population and business, while St. Louis is far removed from both. [5]
- But even allowing the centre of perception to be double, I can see no good reason for supposing this indefinite lengthening of the time, nor any analogy that bears it out. [6]
- H. The nerve-corpuscle, the centre of nervous power. [3]
- But she was the centre of a somewhat noisy group, and it was not easy to join it. [4]
- You are always the centre of a group--a fact which you may have noticed yourself. [5]
- Of this island the centre is London; of London the heart is "the City," and in the City you can put your finger on one spot where the pulse of the world is distinctly felt to beat. [4]
- In those days the Athenaeum Picture Gallery was a principal centre of attraction to young Boston people and their visitors. [6]
- In one of the Academy salons (in the suite where these pictures are), a fine bust of Landseer stands on a pedestal in the centre of the room. [5]
- To satisfy himself that this spot was really the centre of the earth, a sceptic once paid well for the privilege of ascending to the dome of the church to see if the sun gave him a shadow at noon. [5]
- Little people guessed that there was no love-making--only endless discussions of books beside the great centre chimney, and discussions of Isaac Worthington's career. [9]
- Remember, He said that that particular column stood upon the centre of the world. [5]
- The first time that he came, roused by the grating noise as he sat below, he stumbled in the very centre of the cell, and fell upon his knees. [11]
- On the centre table, in addition to a ponderous Bible, was one of those old-fashioned carafes of red glass tipped with blue surmounted by a tumbler of blue tipped with red. [9]
- There were liberal streaks of grey also at his temples, and she noted there was one strand all white just in the centre of his thick hair. [11]
- There was trouble, strange and dreadful trouble, here; and the wrenching thought had swept into his brain that he was the cause of it all, that he was to be the spring and centre of dreadful happenings. [11]
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