centre

This method is that of grouping parts around centres, and several of such groups around larger centres, upward and onward indefinitely; while in living beings, according to their complexity, each individual part, and each individual group of parts with its centre, _is left free to move within its own sphere, yet at the same time is harmonized with the movements of its neighbors through the medium of the common centre_.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

At the lower part of the area which controls the muscles of the different parts of the body, above and a little in front of the tip of the ear, lies a very important centre, which controls the movements of the tongue and lips, and is known as the _speech centre_.

A Handbook of Health Woods Hutchinson 1896

He therefore ordered his heaviest ship, the _Cornwall_, 74, to go there from the centre, exchanging places with the _Centurion_, 50, and at the same time signalled the fleet to close _to the centre_, -- a detail worth remembering in view of Rodney's frustrated manoeuvre of April 17th,

The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence 1877

In Milton's MS. it is 'bestud the centre with their star-light,' _centre_ being the 'centre of the earth.'

Milton's Comus John Milton 1641

... with their trunks (the beams carefully supported at their centre of gravity, the logs carefully supported at their centre of gravity, the elephants without a smile at_ their _centre of gravity)

Rhymes of the East and Re-collected Verses

The point to which we wish particularly to direct attention in connexion with this exposition of the phænomena attending the transmission of a storm is this: -- If the observer so place himself at the commencement that the wind passes _from his left hand towards his right_, his face will be directed towards the centre of the storm; and the wind undergoing no change in direction, but only in force, will acquaint him with this important fact that the _centre_ is not only gradually but surely approaching him: in other words, in the case before us, when he finds the wind from the S.E., and he places himself with his face to the

The Hurricane Guide Being An Attempt To Connect The Rotary Gale Or Revolving Storm With Atmospheric Waves. William Radcliff Birt 1842

To give an idea of scale, the large pink bead in centre is about 1.5 "in diameter and about 3/4" thick.

Double Monday giveaway katelnorth 2007

To give an idea of scale, the large pink bead in centre is about 1.5 "in diameter and about 3/4" thick.

Archive 2007-09-01 katelnorth 2007

In the centre is an enormous circular counter … We ascend a broad staircase, which leads to ‘The Lounging Rooms’, and to the first of a series of circular galleries, lighted from the lantern of the dome, which also lights the ground floor.

Big Box Bookstore of the 1790s 2009

In the centre is an enormous circular counter … We ascend a broad staircase, which leads to ‘The Lounging Rooms’, and to the first of a series of circular galleries, lighted from the lantern of the dome, which also lights the ground floor.

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