Like spokes of a wheel radiating out from the hub, ridges fell away from this mountain, and in between the ridges there lay fertile valleys watered by perpetual streams.
"Eight Keys to Eden"
Mark Irvin Clifton
The hub may move straight forward with uniform velocity, but the point near the tire goes up and down, and, while sharing in the forward motion of the hub, runs sometimes ahead of it, sometimes behind, and such seemed to be the motion of Procyon and of Sirius as well.
"A Text-Book of Astronomy"
George C. Comstock
No one knew exactly under what circumstances the Galactic League Council, operating from the hub of the Galaxy, might summon Mayhem.
"World Beyond Pluto"
C. H. Thames