Centring the life of a child on one base materialistic aim is certain to make a degraded if not a dangerous character.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
But somehow, in spite of her peril, her thoughts wandered from the Rajah, and kept Centring themselves upon that question of what Neil Harley would think and say, if ever he should look again upon her terribly-disfigured face.
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn
The Centring of the commercial currents in Buenos Aires did not furnish an organic connection sufficiently strong to unite provinces and cities so widely separated and so different in social and industrial constitution.
"The South American Republics Part I of II"
Thomas C. Dawson