13 Metaphors for skulls

THE TEETH As closely connected with the internal secretions as are the bones of the face and the skull are the teeth.

The skull, he said, was the finest for intellectual development in his collection, and he read a paper on it before the Imperial German Academy.

This skull is a relic, interesting from its dramatic associations.

I reply that the skull, or death's-head, is the well-known emblem of the pirate.

Reach here thy laurel: Randolph, 'tis thy praise: Thy naked skull shall well become the bays.

I have not volition enough left to dot my i's, much less to comb my eyebrows; my eyes are set in my head; my brains are gone out to see a poor relation in Moorfields, and they did not say when they'd come back again; my skull is a Grub Street attic to let,not so much as a joint-stool left in it; my hand writes, not I, from habit, as chickens run about a little when their heads are off.

The skull was fractured about two inches.

They are fast becoming illegible, worn out by the rain that raineth every day, and our prim, present-day parsons do not look with favour upon them, besides whichto use a clumsy phrasebesides which most of our churchyards are now closed against burials, and without texts there can be no sermons: 'I'll stay and read my sermon here, And skulls and bones shall be my text.

Mr. Laing's own conclusions from skulls and human remains which he takes to be those of tertiary man, show man to be as obstinately unlike the "dryopithecus" as ever, in fact, the reputedly oldest skulls are a decided improvement on the Carnstadt and Neanderthal type.

But all he knew was that his skull was a beehive in an uproar, and that one lobe of his brain was struggling to swarm off.

At any rate, it is quite probable that the skulls from Lanang, Cragaray, and other Philippine Islands are the remains of a very old, if not autochthonous, prehistoric layer of population.

Fortunately, the children had struck on their heads, and the Lawrence- Burton skull is a marvel of solidity.

" So saying, he led the way to the bone-house, from which he began to throw out various bones and skulls, and amongst them a skull of very extraordinary magnitude, which he swore by St. David was the skull of Cadwallader.

13 Metaphors for  skulls