Centre
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Then they started round the room again looking for it; and then they met again in the centre, and stared at one another.
About ten minutes more passed, and then they found themselves in the
centre.
And three minutes later they were back in the
centre
again.
The neighbourhood of Streatley and Goring is a great fishing
centre.
Wallingford, six miles above Streatley, is a very ancient town, and has been an active
centre
for the making of English history.
Milk like this was normally his favourite drink, and his sister had certainly left it there for him because of that, but he turned, almost against his own will, away from the dish and crawled back into the
centre
of the room.
He gathered quite a following of lads interested in the exhibition; and one that had cut his finger and had been a
centre
of fascination and homage up to this time, now found himself suddenly without an adherent, and shorn of his glory.
He entered a dense wood, picked his pathless way to the
centre
of it, and sat down on a mossy spot under a spreading oak.
It is strange to me, Jock Calder of West Inch, to feel that though now, in the very
centre
of the nineteenth century, I am but five-and-fifty years of age, and though it is only once in a week perhaps that my wife can pluck out a little grey bristle from over my ear, yet I have lived in a time when the thoughts and the ways of men were as different as though it were another planet from this.
In the
centre
there is a grey-stoned slate-roofed house with a byre behind it, and "1703" scrawled in stonework over the lintel of the door.
"Yes, if your man knew his business he would have his left about your house, his
centre
on Corriemuir, and his right over near the doctor's house, with his tirailleurs pushed out thickly in front.
These are the men of whom Solomon says, 'They go like an ox to the slaughter, till a dart strikes through their liver'; an admirable description, by the way, of the foul disease, which is a poisonous deadly contagion mingling with the blood, whose
centre
or foundation is in the liver; from whence, by the swift circulation of the whole mass, that dreadful nauseous plague strikes immediately through his liver, and his spirits are infected, his vitals stabbed through as with a dart.
In a niche on the left stood a porcelain stove; opposite, a sideboard; then chairs were arranged along the walls, and a round table occupied the
centre.
It stood in the
centre
of large fields, and was approached by a narrow path.
She returned to Vernon beaming with pleasure, relating that she had found a gem, a delightful little place right in the
centre
of Paris.
At seven o'clock Madame Raquin lit the fire, set the lamp in the
centre
of the table, placed a box of dominoes beside it, and wiped the tea service which was in the sideboard.
A few short reddish hairs on a bony chin sullied his livid skin, and his head being thrown backward, his thin wrinkled neck appeared, with Adam's apple standing out prominently in brick red in the centre, and rising at each snore.
This face looked like that of a dead person in the
centre
of which two living eyes had been fixed.
Her eyes, in the
centre
of her flabby and grimacing face, were of celestial beauty.
Laurent, in fact, was afraid of Francois, particularly since the latter passed his time on the knees of the impotent old lady, as if in the
centre
of an impregnable fortress, whence he could with impunity set his eyes on his enemy.
There she seated herself in the
centre
of a group of women and students, at one of the tables on the pavement, and familiarly shook hands with all this little crowd.
Observe, too, how the emperor turns away, and leaves Don Gaiferos fuming; and you see now how in a burst of anger, he flings the table and the board far from him and calls in haste for his armour, and asks his cousin Don Roland for the loan of his sword, Durindana, and how Don Roland refuses to lend it, offering him his company in the difficult enterprise he is undertaking; but he, in his valour and anger, will not accept it, and says that he alone will suffice to rescue his wife, even though she were imprisoned deep in the
centre
of the earth, and with this he retires to arm himself and set out on his journey at once.
'It's a new coat,' said Mr. Tupman, as the stranger surveyed himself with great complacency in a cheval glass; 'the first that's been made with our club button,' and he called his companions' attention to the large gilt button which displayed a bust of Mr. Pickwick in the centre, and the letters 'P.
Astounding evolutions they were, one rank firing over the heads of another rank, and then running away; and then the other rank firing over the heads of another rank, and running away in their turn; and then forming squares, with officers in the centre; and then descending the trench on one side with scaling- ladders, and ascending it on the other again by the same means; and knocking down barricades of baskets, and behaving in the most gallant manner possible.
There was an open square for the market-place; and in the
centre
of it, a large inn with a sign-post in front, displaying an object very common in art, but rarely met with in nature--to wit, a blue lion, with three bow legs in the air, balancing himself on the extreme point of the
centre
claw of his fourth foot.
The ball flew from his hand straight and swift towards the
centre
stump of the wicket.
CHAPTER VIII STRONGLY ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE POSITION, THAT THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE IS NOT A RAILWAYThe quiet seclusion of Dingley Dell, the presence of so many of the gentler sex, and the solicitude and anxiety they evinced in his behalf, were all favourable to the growth and development of those softer feelings which nature had implanted deep in the bosom of Mr. Tracy Tupman, and which now appeared destined to
centre
in one lovely object.
The right was reserved for the Buff party, and the
centre
for the mayor and his officers; one of whom--the fat crier of Eatanswill--was ringing an enormous bell, by way of commanding silence, while Mr. Horatio Fizkin, and the Honourable Samuel Slumkey, with their hands upon their hearts, were bowing with the utmost affability to the troubled sea of heads that inundated the open space in front; and from whence arose a storm of groans, and shouts, and yells, and hootings, that would have done honour to an earthquake.
That of the Peacock differed in no material respect from the generality of such apartments; that is to say, it was a large, bare-looking room, the furniture of which had no doubt been better when it was newer, with a spacious table in the centre, and a variety of smaller dittos in the corners; an extensive assortment of variously shaped chairs, and an old Turkey carpet, bearing about the same relative proportion to the size of the room, as a lady's pocket-handkerchief might to the floor of a watch-box.
If he remained where he was, he might fall the victim of an accident; if he showed himself in the
centre
of the garden, he might be consigned to a constable.
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