Placed in the centre of Europe after having withstood the push of so many peoples, she had attained an unrivalled economic position.

Should this war end in victory for our present Government, it will become the centre and mainstay of international reaction....

Nor would an attack on the centre have promised more favourably.

In succeeding centuries Gaza's commerce flourished under the Greeks, who founded schools famous for rhetoric and philosophy, till the Mahomedan wave swept over the land in the first half of the seventh century, when the town became a shadow of its former self, though it continued to exist as a centre for trade.

In the centre of the town, where bazaars radiated from the quarter of which the Great Mosque was the hub, the houses were a mass of stones and rubble, and the narrow streets and tortuous byways were filled with fallen walls and roofs.

A warship, taking its line from an aeroplane, fired at the bridge from a range of 14,000 yards, got two direct hits on it and holed it in the centre, and there must have been thirty or forty shell craters within a radius of fifty yards.

There was still a strong and virile force on the seaside, though that was adequately dealt with, but the centre was very weak, and the enemy's only chance of preventing the mounted troops from working through and round his right centre was to fall back on Abu Shushe and Tel Jezar to cover Latron, with its good water supply and the main metalled road where it enters the hills on the way to Jerusalem.

In the centre of our view rose the great mass of San Gabriele; Italian patrols were out on its southern slopes, clearly visible through field-glasses.

Tom had recognised him and gave him a patronising nodTom, a little wretch whom he had cut over the back with a hockey-stick last quarter, and there he was in the centre of the square, rallying round the flag of his county, surrounded by bayonets, cross-belts, and scarlet, the band blowing trumpets and banging cymbalstalking familiarly to immense warriors with tufts to their chins and Waterloo medals.

This was once a house of trade,a centre of busy interests.

The lion cages were Luke's grand centre of interest.

Then Andy had a final sight of crashing clubs and mad, bleeding faces, as some one pulled the centre-light rope.

We mention this not because there is anything pleasing in it, but because it is something which exists daily in the heart of our townin the centre of St. Saviour's district.

We are within the buildingjust within; and here we have on the right a glass screen, on the left a multiplicity of warm water pipes, and in the centre of the spot a handsome substantial baptismal font, the gift of Sir T. G. Fermor-Hesketh, M.P.

Directly in front there is a magnificent five-light chancel windowbeautifully coloured, well arranged, containing in the centre a representation of our Saviour, and flanked by figures of the four evangelists.

pardon in me The oscillation of a mind Unsteadfast, and that cannot find Its centre of rest and harmony!

The mystery, centreing in the empty grave, was apparently inexplicable.

In the Astraeans the place occupied by the animal in the community is marked by a little star-shaped spot, in the centre of which all the partition-walls meet.

I have spoken of the budding of Corals, by which each one becomes the centre of a cluster; but this is not the only way in which they multiply their kind.

In other words,a man reaches the true welfare of a human soul only when his bosom is a generative centre and source of noble principles; and therefore, in pure, wise kindness to man, the world is so arranged that there shall be perpetual need of this access and reinforcement of principle.

Dr. John Cowell's Bible Class, Centre Ch., for Fisk U. 30.00 Holliston.

Markovitch was, so to speak, the dark horse of them all, and he was also when one came to look at it all the way round the centre of the story.

Man in Greece stands in the centre of a beautiful cosmos which is not alien to his spirit.

In the Middle Ages, if we except the bishops, who were placed in the very centre of the political world, the monks monopolize this category as naïve chroniclers who were as decidedly isolated from active life as those elder annalists had been connected with it.

Spirit, on the contrary, may be defined as that which has its centre in itself.