concentering

Hundreds concentering, walk’d the paths and streets and roads,

Brother of All, with Generous Hand 1900

Napoleon was at Neumarkt with the guard; a single bold dash southward toward the Eulen Mountains with his concentering force, and he would have crushed his opponents.

The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) William Milligan Sloane 1889

Hundreds of men concentering all their energies of body, mind, and soul in one prolonged, ever-intensifying, and unrelenting effort to scald and scarify and blast and consume the world.

New Tabernacle Sermons 1867

-- On the verge of the mighty Heathenesse sinking fast into the night of ages, she towered amidst the shades, a shade herself; and round her gathered the last demons of the Dire Belief, defying the march of their luminous foe, and concentering round their mortal priestess, the wrecks of their horrent empire over a world redeemed.

Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Now, purified by the flame that had scorched, and more nerved from the fall that had stunned, -- that great soul rose sublime through the wrecks of the Past, serene through the clouds of the Future, concentering in its solitude the destinies of Mankind, and strong with instinctive Eternity amidst all the terrors of Time.

Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Now, purified by the flame that had scorched, and more nerved from the fall that had stunned, -- that great soul rose sublime through the wrecks of the Past, serene through the clouds of the Future, concentering in its solitude the destinies of Mankind, and strong with instinctive Eternity amidst all the terrors of Time.

Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 11 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

On the verge of the mighty Heathenesse sinking fast into the night of ages, she towered amidst the shades, a shade herself; and round her gathered the last demons of the Dire Belief, defying the march of their luminous foe, and concentering round their mortal priestess, the wrecks of their horrent empire over a world redeemed.

Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 08 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

It is the bustle of a tempest, from which the real horrors are abstracted; — therefore it is poetical, though not in strictness natural — (the distinction to which I have so often alluded) — and is purposely restrained from concentering the interest on itself, but used merely as an induction or tuning for what is to follow.

Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

On my own account I may perhaps have had sufficient reason to lament my deficiency in self-control, and the neglect of concentering my powers to the realization of some permanent work.

Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

It is the bustle of a tempest, from which the real horrors are abstracted; -- therefore it is poetical, though not in strictness natural -- (the distinction to which I have so often alluded) -- and is purposely restrained from concentering the interest on itself, but used merely as an induction or tuning for what is to follow.

Literary Remains, Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803