centre

• In the centre is the fire, while the smoke escapes through an opening left in the top; some mats on the ground, and some lines stretched across on which clothes or other articles can be hung up, form the chief furniture of these wigwams. —  The Grateful Indian And other Stories
• In the centre was a fire which, as it blazed up, threw a strange light on the groups of fierce savages clustering round it. —  The Grateful Indian And other Stories
• In the centre was a sort of pan for the coals, or embers, and all around was a raised border, made double, with a space between to contain water. —  Rollo in Naples
• The "o" in the centre is the middle island--set in a shallow lake through which the river (the stalk, of the Y's) runs Bosambo came down in state with ten canoes filled with counsellors and bodyguard. —  Bones Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country
• In this symmetrical arrangement of the main organs of the trunk of the body, a mechanical principle is prominently apparent; for as the centre is the least moveable and most protected region of the form, so have these vitally important structures the full benefit of this situation. —  Surgical Anatomy

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