The object of General Hooker's and my attacks on the extreme flanks of Bragg's position was, to disturb him to such an extent, , that he would naturally detach from his centre as against us, so that Thomas's army could break through his centre. The whole plan succeeded admirably; but it was not until after dark that I learned the complete success at the centre, and received General Grant's orders to pursue on the north side of Chickamauga Creek:英文原著 · 《Memoirs of General William T. Sherman-1》
Length -- 4 to 4.25 inches. About two inches smaller than the English sparrow. Male -- Upper parts grayish olive-green; wings and tail dusky, margined with olive-green. Underneath soiled whitish. Centre of crown bright orange, bordered by yellow and en. closed by black line. Cheeks gray; a whitish line over the eye. Female -- Similar, but centre of crown lemon-yellow and more grayish underneath.英文原著 · 《Bird Neighbors》
[Footnote e: This power may be centred in an assembly, in which case it will be strong without being stable; or it may be centred in an individual, in which case it will be less strong, but more stable.]英文原著 · 《Democracy In America-1》
From the centre of the radiating flame in one looked out a woman's face, laughing, dimpled, with streaming yellow hair. In the centre of the other were merry laughing ripples, like the bubbles on a glass of wine. They danced before him.英文原著 · 《Dreams》
From centre unto rim, from rim to centre,
In a round vase the water moves itself,
As from without 'tis struck or from within.英文原著 · 《Paradiso》
In the centre of the church, seats were raised in an amphitheatre, at the far end of which was a scaffolding, a little higher than the rest; below this spot, but high enough to be in sight of all the concourse, was placed a vast table of iron, on which was graven an ancient inscription, and bearing in its centre a clear and prominent device, presently to be explained.英文原著 · 《Rienzi》