Concentrating

Examples

• My dear George, returns the elder, concentrating his strong steady brow upon him and smiling confidently, leave that to me, and let me try. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The Edison concentrating plant has been sketched in the briefest outline with a view of affording merely a bare idea of the great work of its projector. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• His genius as an inventor is revealed in many details of the great concentrating plant. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Edison has said that sometimes he has wondered how it was he did not become an analytical chemist instead of concentrating on electricity, for which he had at first no great inclination. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Sigel is concentrating now. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Concentrating my mind upon the massive lock I hurled the nine thought waves against it. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Likewise, it seems to me that, concentrating our attention on the examination, we altogether overlook one of the best points of the animal. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Use, in this concentrating, the railroad, if by so doing time can be saved. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• In Fig. 263 is shown the Edison magnetic concentrating apparatus. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Some years ago a certain application was made, and contained the following terse and modest sentence: I have designed a concentrating plant and built a machine shop, etc. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It grew by a kind of necessity through new concentrating and unifying forces that were steadily gathering power in human affairs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The production of heat by concentrating the rays of the sun, and for burning objects had been known from the time of Archimedes, and been repeated from time to time. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• This gave him unusual facilities, for that country, for concentrating his forces to his right. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The little village, called into existence by the concentrating works, was of the most primitive nature and offered nothing in the way of frivolity or amusement. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This simple but effective principle was the one employed by Edison in his great concentrating plant already described. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In my experimental plant for concentrating iron ore in the northern part of New Jersey, we had a vertical drier, a column about nine feet square and eighty feet high. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The mechanical processes designed to separate the ore from its enclosing rock or other superfluous earthy matter called _gangue_ became known as _ore dressing_ and _ore concentrating_. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Wherever such conditions obtain, much may be said in favor of concentrating school activity upon books. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The police are making the mistake of concentrating their attention upon the second, because it happens to be the one which is actually criminal. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• This made the most convenient arrangement I could devise for concentrating all my spare forces upon any threatened point. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Edison's work on conveyors during the period of his ore-concentrating labors was distinctively original, ingenious and far in advance of the times. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Try the experiment of concentrating on a thermoscope, by means of a burning-glass, the moon's rays. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• When you have been concentrating so hard on something you can't stop and your brain gets to racing like a flywheel with the weight gone. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.

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