Centred

Examples

• She felt strange and inevitable, as if she were centred upon the pivot of all existence, there was no further reality. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Nor did Dobbin try and convince him that Amelia's happiness was not centred in turtle-soup. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Then for some time the struggle centred upon the town Agrigentum. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Her thoughts are centred in her child. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It was on little Freddy Van Osburgh, the small slim heir of the Van Osburgh millions, that the attention of Mrs. Hatch's group was centred. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• She cared very little at that moment about being seen with Rosedale: all her thoughts were centred on the object of her search. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• In Germany it centred upon the crown; its noisiest, most conspicuous advocate was the heir-apparent. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Gossip had passed me bycuriosity had looked me over; both subtle influences, hovering always round, had never become centred upon me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The teaching of Confucius centred upon the idea of a noble life which he embodied in a standard or ideal, the Aristocratic Man. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• At first the mental activities of Alexandria centred upon the Museum, and were mainly scientific. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• All her hopes on earth were centred in her child, who slept on a bed of down and drank only of the most delicate wines. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• In the same manner I had worked out for the Manhattan Elevated Railroad a system of electric trains, and had the control of each car centred at one place--multiple control. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• My first anxieties and first hopes when the morning came centred in my mother and my sister. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• But her hope was apparently centred upon him; and dismissing his regrets Venn determined to aid her to be happy in her own chosen way. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• It is as though all the great love we bore his noble father and his poor mother had been centred in him. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.

Editor: Maureen