He tried to destroy the remains of the old Holy Roman Empire, intending to replace it by a new one centring upon Paris.
Six columbas centring in the womb of the Virgin Mary were illustrated on page 790, and it will probably prove that columba meant holy womb, just as culver seemingly meant holy ovary.
Is it in these circumstances likely that the Roman handful troubled to construct six great arteries or main roads centring to London stone?
To the other, rose white mess-tents decorated with flowers and bunting, each centring its knot of crowding, colourful guests.
Being thus next in rank to the admiral, the latter, who made his headquarters at Barbadoes in the southern part of the station, sent him to the northern division, centring about the island of Antigua.
That will give them complete control of a vast system all centringhere in Thebes.
You'll see for yourself that whoever builds any railroad to connect the lines centring at Thebes with the Southern system, is absolutely obliged to have this charter.
Warming up to their work, they were discussing the situation at Pullman and its probable effect upon the employees of the roads centring in Chicago.
There is no doubt," he said, "that the circumstances centring round the death of my late client are remarkably mysterious!
Centring the ball is a great feature, and the best position from which to do so is about thirty yards out, landing the ball close upon the twelve yards line.
The Base Section is subdivided again into several lesser segments, each centring about a main port.
Some little practice will be necessary in throwing stiff chucks and centring the shape securely, but this once mastered, the method here described will be found to be expeditious and satisfactory for turning shapes.
All this sounds very simple, but the beginner will do well first to practise and master centring the ball.
The centring and hollowing once mastered, the chief difficulties to avoid are getting the bottom of the walls too thin before the top is pulled up, and making the top wavy and irregular.
From the dim east into the dim west you follow that long-drawn profile, rising from a distant promontory, declining to a distant promontory, centring in the roof of the dome, in the peak of the cone.
The stream of life runs stilly for the reason that it runs more deep; centring again to that Within and Spiritual, whence it issued in Birth, and will issue again in re-Birth.
Already the self-centring of Stephen's mind, his instant reverting from most trains of thought to their possible bearing on her love for him, had begun to irritate her.
She did not in the least suspect that her affection and her loyalty were centring around an ideal personality, to which she gave his name, but which had in reality never existed.
It was this controversy, centringround the Royal Arch degree, that about the middle of the eighteenth century split Masonry into opposing camps of Ancients and Moderns, the Ancients declaring that the R.
The religion of the followers of Jesus became a centring of every affection, obligation, and hope, in him.
The general shriek of horror at the impending catastrophe subsided into confused babels of relief centring round the Prince on the left, the King on the right.
As a result of this change, the hopes centring about the beyond forced their way overpoweringly into cult, whereas the cult, in turn, reacted in an important measure to enhance these hopes.
Their celebration consists of dances and songs, though primarily of ceremonies centring about the youths who are reaching the age of maturity.
Whether for gripping a tiny drill or a large wheel, the self-centring chuck is indispensable.
The self-centring chuck is an accessory which has proved invaluable for saving time.
When she wished to be stirred and strengthened, to realise her spiritual value, to feel the grip of divine forces centring on her, she went to All Souls.
To her veiled vision that thought was like a sheet of blank light let down behind her drooped eyelids, and centringin a luminous whorl.
From the busy intercourse of these land-locked waters arose the civilization called Minoan, or Aegean, centring in Crete, itself to be surpassed by the trading activity of the Phoenicians and the art and science of the Greeks.
How far and in what form may we anticipate that the unity of mankind, centringas it must round Europe, will emerge from the trial?
In this lamp centring movements are usually dispensed with, the arc being clamped on to a tray pin as in the case of a limelight jet.
The story itself, centring on Saladin, is of eastern origin, [1483] and so tells of even more freethinking than meets the eye in the history of Islam.
The thinking of its more disinterested promoters began and ended in Bibliolatry: Luther and Calvin alike did but set up an infallible book and a local tyranny against an infallible pope and a tyranny centring at Rome.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "centring" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
