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Example sentences for "common centre"

  • For the ideas selected are essentially related, and, scattered as they may have hitherto been, naturally gravitate round a common centre.

  • No longer drifting apart in the bewildering chaos of multitudinous pages, they now revolve round a common centre, the heart of all artistic beauty, through whose manifestations alone it gains its power to charm the human soul: viz.

  • In recumbent zooecia the main branches often radiate outwards from a common centre.

  • The free microscleres consist as a rule of several or many shafts meeting together in several or many planes at a common centre, which is usually nodular.

  • The polypides radiate, as a rule in several circles, from a common centre.

  • The dynamic force of vitality drives the stem upwards, and the static force of gravitation towards a common centre is expressed in the beautifully-drooping curves of the leaves.

  • The controlling element shows itself in the grouping of the single parts round a common centre, which is often distinguished by a contrast in forms or colours.

  • And, as the coalescence and concentration go on, the constituent masses will gradually become fewer, larger, brighter, and more densely collected around the common centre of gravity.

  • If the sepals and petals are arranged symmetrically round a common centre, the calyx and corolla, respectively, are said to be regular; if otherwise, they are irregular.

  • The modern forms are placed along lines which converge toward a common centre.

  • Lifting our searching gaze into the measureless space beyond our earth, we find planet bound to planet, and system chained to system, all impelled by a universal force to roll in regularity and order around a common centre.

  • The earth and the other planets of our system move in ellipses around a common centre: therefore their motion cannot have been originally communicated merely by the impressed force of projection.

  • We have gravitation, drawing all matter to a common centre, and acting from all bodies throughout the wide regions of unmeasured space upon all.

  • Some of those which are now single consisted then of two separate bodies, often distinguished by different colors, and revolving periodically round a common centre of gravity.

  • The supposition that a bright sun and a relatively dark sun might revolve around a common centre of gravity may at first sight seem improbable.

  • That we are now all to act on a common plan, converging on a common centre, looks like enlightened war.

  • Galleries are formed at different levels upon the flank of the excavation to follow the several small veins, which run in all directions, and diverge from a common centre like so many radii.

  • It consists of two moving parts; the first being a succession of horizontal levers moving upon a common centre, and called jacks, a term applied to vibrating levers in various kinds of machinery as well as the stocking-frame.

  • Thus I have been able to trace the distribution of the bow over a large area, with evidence of its having spread from a common centre.

  • We have climbed up from revolving earth and moon to revolving planets and sun, in order to understand how two or ten suns can revolve about a common centre.

  • A subsidiary cause of tides is found in the revolution of the earth and moon about their common centre of gravity.

  • We know that if two stars are near in reality, and not simply apparently so by being in the same line of sight, they must revolve around a common centre of gravity, or rush to a common ruin.

  • Two suns can balance about a point; all suns can swing about a common centre.

  • Their backs were to him; their heads inclined sidewise toward a common centre.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    awfully good; book about; common discourse; common fire; common friend; common ground; common impulse; common interest; common land; common life; common nature; common object; common origin; common people; common resident; common school; common source; common stock; common summer; common talk; common thing; commonly applied; commonly call; commonly termed; had previously; when brought