concentre
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of concentre
C16: from French concentrer; see concentrate
Example Sentences
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All his designs concentre in himself For building castles and amassing pelf.
From The True Benjamin Franklin by Sydney George Fisher
But to make available those faculties, need I be a prophet to tell you that you must learn to concentre upon great objects all your desires?
From Zanoni by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
To come from his heroic character, all the amiable qualities of domestic life concentre in this tamed Bellerophon.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Mary Lamb
As the attributes of the poets of the kosmos concentre in the real body and soul and in the pleasure of things they possess the superiority of genuineness over all fiction and romance.
From Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations by Charles William Eliot
This expedient may give a present relief; but it seems a most dangerous experiment to concentre so much power of resistance in one body of men appointed for life.
From Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 1 by Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of
You know, the one where “The wretch, concentred all in self / Living, shall forfeit fair renown”?
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2023
I supposed at the time that the birds lived, like ants or citizens, concentred where we saw them.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Despite those titles, power and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
From Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various
Or where pale Neptune in the distant space Shows us how far, in his creative mood, With pomp of silence and concentred brows, The Almighty walked?
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 by Various
The nebulous world of letters shall be again concentred into stars.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 by Various
And as the now advancing and concentring enterprise demanded more and more compacted vigor from him, he felt that he was having less and less to bring to it.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
Terrestrial Heaven, danced round by other Heavens That shine, yet bear their bright officious lamps, Light above light, for thee alone, as seems, In thee concentring all their precious beams Of sacred influence!
From Paradise Lost by John Milton
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.
From Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV by Francis Parkman
Terrestrial Heaven, danced round by other Heavens, That shine, yet bear their bright officious lamps, Light above light, for thee alone, as seems, In thee concentring all their precious beams Of sacred influence!
From The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' by Thomas Nathaniel Orchard
History, that may in some measure be considered as concentring in itself the elements of all other sciences?
From Four Early Pamphlets by William Godwin
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