26 Metaphors for center

The very center is the Emerald City.

" He spoke devoutly and Robert admired and respected his faith, the center of which was Manitou, and Manitou in the mind of the Christian boy was the same as God.

Its center is the apogee of terrestrial energy in the vegetable and animal creations, in monsters and in fish.

The right guide of the company places himself, facing to the front, where the right of the company is to rest, and at such point that the center of the company will be 6 paces from and opposite the first sergeant; the squads form in their proper places on the left of the right guide, superintended by the other sergeants, who then take their posts.

Sheldon Center is that place.

It may be that the successful new centers were merely a few of thousands of attempts in other places.

The market-place faces the Mairie, the city hall, and its center is a fountain beloved of youth.

Now we have taken up one-eighth of an inch and the result is, we have lengthened our pitman just one-sixteenth of an inch; or in other words, the center of wrist pin and the center of cross-head are just one-sixteenth of an inch further apart than they were before any wear had taken place, and the piston head has one-sixteenth of an inch more clearance at one end, and one-sixteenth of an inch less at the other end than it had before.

The main center and crank shafts are also 28 inches in diameter; each of the two plunger holes is 24 inches by 30 inches in section; and all the working parts are in proportion to those heretofore mentioned.

The center of this group is Edmund Spenser, whose Shepherd's Calendar (1579) marked the appearance of the first national poet since Chaucer's death in 1400.

The center of the field had been the nation's capital, the third of the great American cities to be destroyed in the holocaust of 2048.

These laya centers, it says, are "the transforming points of energy."

It smelled pretty good, but when I drew my knife across it to cut it in two, all the center was uncooked batter, which ran out upon my plate, and spoiled my supper.

And the center of her memories was the hot coal of that one secret; around that they all burned and hissed.

The centers of this interest in the mountains of Tennessee were Maryville and Knoxville.

It is called the Northumbrian School; its center was the monasteries and abbeys, such as Jarrow and Whitby, and its three greatest names are Bede, Cædmon, and Cynewulf.

The restoration of Ptolemy was celebrated with games, spectacles, and festivities of every kind, and, of course, next to the king himself, the chief center of interest and attraction in all these public rejoicings would be the distinguished foreign generals by whose instrumentality the end had been gained.

All you need to make this a social center is a good-looking girl or twounmarried ones.

Urban centers, housing trade, commerce, fabrication and finance, with their hinterlands of food-gatherers, herdsmen, cultivators, craftsmen and transporters, are the nuclei around which and upon which recurring civilizations are built.

In addition, the "center" of the court is the ideal position from which to cover your opponent's return (see fig.

Its center is the forgiveness of sins which the cross alone made possible; but is not its issue here, in the lifting of the soul above the pride of life and consecrating it in the profoundest gratitude to "Him who redeemed us and washed us from sins in His own blood"?

The storm center of the political unrest was the French Revolution, that frightful uprising which proclaimed the natural rights of man and the abolition of class distinctions.

These centers were Green Bay, Sheboygan, Fond du Lac, Aztalan, Racine, and Janesville.

Its center was always Jesus Christ's teaching or example, or appeal.

The center of the wealth of South Africa is the Johannesburg mines.

26 Metaphors for  center