"Centrical" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to the first, we may see here the granite raising up the strata, and bringing them to the light, where they appear on each side of those centrical ridges. What M. de la Metherie calls Monts Secondaires, I would call the proper strata of the globe, whether primary or secondary; and the Monts Granit, I would consider as mineral masses, which truly, or in a certain sense, are secondary, as having been made to invade, in a fluid state, ...
— Theory of the Earth, Volume 2 (of 4) • James Hutton
... so diverse to seek out for themselves vesicles in such close neighborhood, and to keep, in so many instances, each to his own vesicle? I can but state the problem,—not solve it. The groups of heliotropes clustered each around its bulky centrical mass seem to show that the principle of molecular attraction may be operative in very dense mediae,—in a hard amygdaloidal trap even; and it seems not improbable, that to this law, which draws atom to its kindred atom, as clansmen of old used to speed at ...
— The Cruise of the Betsey • Hugh Miller
... no means anticipate the same amount of rapid advance in population, commerce, or financial resources for Labuan, that has distinguished the history of Singapore, a far more centrical position for general commerce; still I think its prospect of success undoubted; while it will have some advantages which Singapore cannot, from its nature, possess. Its coal-mines, and the command of the coal-fields on the river of ...
— The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido - For the Suppression of Piracy • Henry Keppel |
