Some of these latter are in the habit of stating that London is the hub of Europe and the Talleyrand smoking-room its grease-box.

Desolation of the Hub in consequence.

Every thing but the hubs for the wheels.

The nucleus is the hub from which the spokes of empire and of civilization radiate.

In fact, my grandmother in the War Office"this mythical relative was frequently quoted by Major Wagstaffe, and certainly her information had several times proved surprisingly correct"tells me that by the beginning of next year we shall have enough guns, of various calibres, to make a continuous line, hub to hub, from one end of our front to the other.

The keg stood solid and substantial, the hub about which reeled the orgy.

But, every now and then, the long, low car would shoot forward through some gap in the traffic, grazing the hubs of bus-wheels, dodging hansoms, shaving sudden corners in an apparently reckless manner.

But I have really little time to dwell on these things, for am I not the centre of creation itself, the hub around which the whole household revolves in one wild bewildering whirl of ecstasy?