In this enterprise, however, he had more real difficulties than generally fell to the lot of a knight-errant of yore, who seldom had anything but giants, enchanters, fiery dragons, and such like easily conquered adversaries, to contend with and had to make his way merely through gates of iron and brass, and walls of adamant to the castle keep, where the lady of his heart was confined; all which he achieved as easily as a man would carve his way to the centre
of a Christmas pie; and then the lady gave him her hand as a matter of course.
There, said the landlord, placing the candle on a crazy old sea chest that did double duty as a wash-stand and centre
table; there, make yourself comfortable now, and good night to ye.
Rebecca's own black locks were commonly pushed smoothly off her forehead, but on this occasion she formed what I must perforce call by its only name, a spit-curl, directly in the centre
of her brow, an ornament which she was allowed to wear a very short time, only in fact till Hannah was able to call her mother's attention to it, when she was sent into the next room to remove it and to come back looking like a Christian.
poor Miss Taylor,' when they left her at Randalls in the centre
of every domestic comfort, or saw her go away in the evening attended by her pleasant husband to a carriage of her own.
Besides these Dervishes, were other three who had rushed into another sect, which mended matters with a jargon about "the Centre
of Truth:" holding that Man had got out of the Centre
of Truth--which did not need much demonstration--but had not got out of the Circumference, and that he was to be kept from flying out of the Circumference, and was even to be shoved back into the Centre
, by fasting and seeing of spirits.
Now, when Umslopogaas and Jikiza the Unconquered had come to the cattle kraal, they were set in its centre
and there were ten paces between them.
The trumpets had no sooner given the signal, than the champions vanished from their posts with the speed of lightning, and closed in the centre
of the lists with the shock of a thunderbolt.
The declivity of the upper surface, from the circumference to the centre
, is the natural cause why all the dews and rains, which fall upon the island, are conveyed in small rivulets toward the middle, where they are emptied into four large basins, each of about half a mile in circuit, and two hundred yards distant from the centre
At the centre
staircase, by the berths of the ship's crew, there was no one.
In composing the Odyssey he did not include all the adventures of Odysseus--such as his wound on Parnassus, or his feigned madness at the mustering of the host--incidents between which there was no necessary or probable connection: but he made the Odyssey, and likewise the Iliad, to centre
round an action that in our sense of the word is one.
And once the soul is set free, there is no need for painful aimless wanderings, no need for Mahomet to go to the Mountain, for resting in the centre
of all things the universe will be our home and our share in the secrets of the World-Builder will be made known.
For men define the term 'above' as the contrary of 'below', when it is the region at the centre
they mean by 'below'; and this is so, because nothing is farther from the extremities of the universe than the region at the centre