Centres

Examples

• Medina and Mecca were now only of importance as pilgrimage centres, to which the faithful turned to pray. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Nalanda and Taxilla seem to have been considerable educational centres as early as the opening of the schools of Athens. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• British science was largely the creation of Englishmen and Scotchmen[458] working outside the ordinary centres of erudition. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Let him go to centres of culture and civilization. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• These new industrial centres were at first without schools, without churches. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Of course, this system was intended to be applied in every part of a district to be supplied with current, separate sets of feeders running out from the station to the various centres. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It is evident that there must have been plenty of religious discussion during the pilgrimage fairs at Mecca and the like centres. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I know that all your devotion centres in this room, and that nothing to the last will ever tempt you away from the duties you discharge here. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The total length of the bridge is 910 feet between the centres of the anchorage piers. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It was as if his centres of feeling were drying up. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Oxford and Cambridge, those once starry centres, were still recovering but slowly from the intellectual ebb of the later eighteenth century. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And it was in the original centres of civilization that this antagonism was most completely developed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They were assembled at the most convenient railroad centres in their respective congressional districts. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Crawley, in _The Tree of Life_, has called attention to other centres of impulse and emotion, and particularly to sex as a source of deep excitement. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• At great intervals there are in this emptiness flaring centres of heat and light, the fixed stars. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It does not require a particularly acute prophetic vision to see Flower Towns of Poured Houses going up in whole suburbs outside all our chief centres of population. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• You live at some distance, sir, from the gigantic centres of scientific activity--London and Paris. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

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