Concentrated

Examples

• By the same degrees his attention became concentrated on the knife. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The vouchers were produced, and for the next half-hour Mr Fledgeby concentrated his sublime attention on them. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• A word more, and the attention of the reader (concentrated breathlessly on myself) shall be released. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Mr. Pickwick returned the glare, concentrated into a focus by means of his spectacles, and breathed a bold defiance. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• There were supposed to be Italian troops concentrated in Soria, and at Siguenza again besides those operating in the North. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• As the concentrated expression returned to his forehead, he seemed to become conscious that it was in hers too. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• These jetties so concentrated the flow of waters into a narrow channel as to cause its increased velocity to wash out the mud and silt and deepen the channel. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• But the door-sill of marriage once crossed, expectation is concentrated on the present. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The devil, that possessed her race with obstinacy, has concentrated its full force in her single person! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• We went on playing, sipping the wine between shots, speaking in Italian, but talking little, concentrated on the game. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Inventors accordingly concentrated their attention on the use of twine or cord. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• For he always kept such a keen attentiveness, concentrated and unyielding in himself. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• This second vial appeared to be filled with concentrated provisions and extract of Sink from the pantry. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Her feelings are concentrated in one--pride; and that needs humbling. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Here the whole army concentrated before attempting to cross. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• She had something of an estranged mien; the solitude exhaled from the heath was concentrated in this face that had risen from it. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• A thousand lives seemed to be concentrated in that one moment to Eliza. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The bombardment started to the south below the long wooded ridge where the Austrian guns were concentrated. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• To prevent this all spare forces at Bolivar and Jackson were ordered to Corinth, and cars were concentrated at Jackson for their transportation. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Miss Wren pursued her occupation with a concentrated air, and asked, after an interval of silent industry: 'Are you in the army? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Mademoiselle complies, saying in a concentrated voice while that something in her cheek beats fast and hard, You are a devil. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• All my attention was concentrated on the white gleam of Miss Fairlie's muslin dress. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• He knew all the time what he was doing, she could see it in his smiling, concentrated eyes. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It is thoughtful, gloomy, concentrated. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It was concentrated, for the moment, on the probable date of the next big rise. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Conditions more unfavorable to an alert and concentrated response would be hard to devise. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• As an old friend, you will allow me to hope, Miss Fairfax, that ten years hence you may have as many concentrated objects as I have. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I know not how to express or communicate the sense of concentrated, intense, though evanescent transport, that imparadized us in the present hour. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The Germans concentrated their attention more and more upon submarine warfare. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• These, however, are few in number, and at some future time will be concentrated in one or more additional concrete buildings. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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