Double rows of young and vigorous elms lined each side of the wide street, while an enormous sycamore still kept possession of the spot, in its centre, which it had occupied when the white man entered the forest.
The finest feature of the facade of this north wing, facing the court, is the magnificent polygonal staircase tower in its centre (Plate VIII.
By rotating s the end S' of S is caused to swing, the crank journal moving in the slot to accommodate the motion and permit S to swing on its centre.
Instead of being pivoted at its centre, however, it is guided in its rotary motion by fitting at d d into a cylindrical recess provided in B to receive it.
This plug carries at its centre a cylindrical pin on which pivots the arm A.
Another stroke caused the boat to quiver to its centre, and the water curled from its bows like the ripple of a rapid.
Under favourable conditions Lord Rosse's great telescope has shown the exterior of this magnificent crater to be scored with deep gullies radiating from its centre.
The vast crater must be many miles across, and the mountain at its centre must be thousands of feet high.
The telescope is attached at its centre to an axis at right angles to its length.
The French Revolution of 1789, which startled every kingdom of Europe, shook Italy to its centre.
All of a sudden there came a hush, as though the great heart of nature were thrilled to its centre.
Was it of the nature of a satellite, or terrestrial comet, that revolves around the earth as its centre of motion?
Thus, the attraction exerted by the earth and by the sun is the same as though the entire matter of each body were in its centre.
To form a clear idea of the two motions of the earth, imagine yourself standing on a circular platform which turns slowly round its centre.
Some remains of his taste still exist, and an old yew garden, once having a fishpond in its centre, and one or two noble trees of unmistakably foreign origin, still hale and vigorous.
Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey found that none of the rubber-cored balls was correct as to its centre of gravity, though some were much more incorrect than others, and he found that not one of them was truly spherical in shape.
In its centre is fixed an iron axle; but the interior of the cylinder, which is quite hollow, is filled with sacred writings, the leaves of which are all stuck one to another at the edge, throughout the whole length.
The same wide gravelly expanse occupies its centre, forming a plain of one or two miles in width, through which the river runs in many branches.
Winding round this valley, and continuing to rise, the stream in its centre is crossed about midway, and the ascent continues on the spur which forms its western boundary.
The valley was almost invariably wide and level, once or twice only interrupted by projecting ridges of low rocks advancing to its centre.
The badge is a cross of gold, having in its centre a medallion with a figure of the saint slaying the dragon; the ribbon being yellow and black.
The flag of the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland is the Union, and in its centre, as we may see in Fig.
But if the same small plate be {85} placed outside the orbe of magnetick virtue, the point will not turn towards its centre, but the cross E of the same versorium does.
Describe the circumference of a circle and let it be divided into quadrants by two diameters intersecting each other at right angles at its centre.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "its centre" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
