Which preposition to use with center

of Occurrences 1387%

Then he was silent, his eyes fixed; and I looked also; for up from somewhere about the center of the wooded lowland there rose high into the quiet air a great column of hazelike spray, upon which the sun shone, causing innumerable rainbows.

in Occurrences 122%

If I am your wife, I am my mother's daughter, and my brother's sister, and Tommy's mother, and there are four distinct individualities all centered in myself.'

on Occurrences 61%

Millville folks were diffident in the presence of these city visitors and while they favored the girls with rather embarrassing stares, their chief interest was centered on the little man in the telephone booth, who could plainly be seen through the glass door but might not be heard, however loudly he shouted.

for Occurrences 50%

In the ninth Herzog was hit by a pitched ball and Meyers swung solidly to center for a single, after Herzog had died trying to steal.

around Occurrences 33%

The result of the Haelen engagement was thus described in the dispatches of August 13: "The battle centered around Haelen, in the Belgian province of Limbourg, extending to Diest, in the north of the province of Brabant, after passing round Zeelhem.

about Occurrences 29%

These associations have almost invariably centered about a service to be rendered.

at Occurrences 20%

If in their effort to continue the great turning movement the Germans pushed forward across the Seine and attempted by encircling Paris to gain the rear of the allied armies, the French could mass their reserve corps behind their center at Reims, push forward against the weakened German center in an attack that if successful would cut off the German invading columns and expose them to annihilation.

to Occurrences 13%

I glanced over the long, low studded room, and moved a chair from the center to a place nearer the wall.

with Occurrences 11%

He was, essentially, a poet among the metaphysicians, which again favors the conception of him as a pituitary-centered with a dominant post-pituitary.

into Occurrences 8%

We radiate from an ascertained center into new areas of knowledge; we proceed from the broad, fundamental, generic to the precise, discriminatory, specific.

by Occurrences 7%

ATTACKS BY RUSSIAN INFANTRY "Yesterday, my first day at Wirballen, I saw the third attempt of the Russians to carry the German center by storm.

from Occurrences 6%

But on the other hand if the grand harmony of the Originating Spirit within itself is duly regarded, then the individual mind affords a fresh center from which the Spirit contemplates itself in what I have ventured to call its Artistic Originalitya boundless potential of Creativeness, yet always regulated by its own inherent Law of Unity.

as Occurrences 6%

She was jumping and dancing in the center as wild and lawless as they, and just as high, too. . . .

between Occurrences 4%

so he seems to stand in center between Moya on left and Mrs. O'Kelly on right.)

without Occurrences 3%

After the deployment is completed, the guide is CENTER without command, unless otherwise ordered.

under Occurrences 2%

" In the meantime the door was bulging in the center under blows of increasing weight.

round Occurrences 2%

She was poor and disreputable, and even the high position of having been mistress to the regent could not save her from being decried by a large portion of that society which centered round the bel esprit.

opposite Occurrences 2%

An American circus has its tent pitched in the center opposite a group of hotels; a little further along is a roller skating rink, which seems to be popular, and scattered here and there, usually beside clumps of shade trees, are cottages erected for the accommodation of golf, tennis, croquet and cricket clubs.

through Occurrences 2%

Up from Earth's Center through the Seventh Gate I rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate, And many a Knot unravel'd by the Road; But not the Master-knot of Human Fate.]

within Occurrences 2%

He never lowered his bow arm in all the shooting, but fitted each shaft with his longbow raised; yet all three of his arrows smote the center within easy distance of the black.

like Occurrences 2%

Even distant centers like Memphis, Little Rock and San Francisco were drawn upon, as well as the manufacturing towns in Ontario, Canada.

toward Occurrences 1%

The monument was to be erected at this historic place in front of the side wall of the church, with the center toward the Corso, high above the surrounding buildings.

towards Occurrences 1%

These are hemispherical in form, and consist for the most part of coir (coco fibers); and, as if prepared by the hand of man, the whole interior is covered with an irregular net-work of fine threads of the glutinous edible substance, as well as the upper edge, which swells gently outwards from the center towards the sides, and expands into two wing-shaped prolongations, resting on one another, by which the nest is fixed to the wall.

up Occurrences 1%

Wide halls in the center up and down stairs, numerous rooms and a stone kitchen built on the back connected with dining room.

uv Occurrences 1%

An' I sez to myself,'ef they wuz like he is, an' wuz ez plenty in the Middle Ages ez they make 'em out ter be, then it's a pity we wuzn't back right in the center uv 'em,' sez I." "Lady Di!

Which preposition to use with  center