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  • verb Present participle of concentre.

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Examples

  • Grand, which was hard by, a relation of our author's, one Blackborough, whom it was known he often visited; and upon this occasion the visits were the more narrowly observed, and possibly there might be a combination between both parties, the friends on both sides concentring in the same action, though on different behalfs.

    The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 David Masson 1864

  • If every village and hamlet in the land was profoundly stirred by these events, it can well be understood that the commercial centre of New York throbbed like an irritated nerve under the telegraph wires concentring there from the scenes of action.

    An Original Belle Edward Payson Roe 1863

  • The telegraph wires, concentring there from all parts of the city, were constantly ticking off direful intelligence; but the most threatening fact was the movement down Broadway of unknown thousands, maddened by liquor, and confident from their unchecked excesses during the day.

    An Original Belle Edward Payson Roe 1863

  • Good management and good luck had so disposed it that the allied bands, concentring from points more than a thousand miles distant, reached the rendezvous on the same day.

    Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV Francis Parkman 1858

  • Hundreds concentring, walk'd the paths and streets and roads,

    Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 1855

  • And perhaps to this peculiarity of the mental economy, the gradual concentring of the mind in a channel, narrowing to that point of condensation where thought becomes sensible to sight as well as feeling, may be mainly attributed the vision I am about to describe.

    Tales and Sketches, Complete Volume V., the Works of Whittier: Tales and Sketches John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

  • And perhaps to this peculiarity of the mental economy, the gradual concentring of the mind in a channel, narrowing to that point of condensation where thought becomes sensible to sight as well as feeling, may be mainly attributed the vision I am about to describe.

    The Complete Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

  • And perhaps to this peculiarity of the mental economy, the gradual concentring of the mind in a channel, narrowing to that point of condensation where thought becomes sensible to sight as well as feeling, may be mainly attributed the vision I am about to describe.

    Tales and Sketches Part 3, from Volume V., the Works of Whittier: Tales and Sketches John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

  • Above all, guard her against concentring attention on any malady that your fears erroneously ascribe to her.

    A Strange Story — Volume 02 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Above all, guard her against concentring attention on any malady that your fears erroneously ascribe to her.

    A Strange Story — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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