Outside of these are two little shoe-button eyes; and we are not certain whether they reflect to the head ganglion two or three hundred bits of leaf, or one large mosaic leaf.
"Edge of the Jungle"
William Beebe
The Church may be in a bad way, as her own children declare; revolution may be in sight, as our English Bolshevists love to believe-not too seriously; but meanwhile, if a stranger in any normal English village wants to lay his finger on the central ganglion of its various activities, he will still look for the church and the vicarage-or rectory, as the case may be.
"Harvest"
Mrs. Humphry Ward
So the morning wore on, and the pile of letters grew, and Mary felt, at last, that she was the center ganglion of a very fine network of nerves which fell over England, and one of these days, when she touched the heart of the system, would begin feeling and rushing together and emitting their splendid blaze of revolutionary fireworks-for some such metaphor represents what she felt about her work, when her brain had been heated by three hours of application.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf