39 examples of occiput in sentences

The seats below are substantial and high; very small people when they sit down in them go right out of sightif you are sitting behind you can't see them at all; people less diminutive show their occiput moderately; ordinarily-sized folk keep their heads and a portion of their shoulders just fairly in sight.

There was a tiny burning spot on the left side of his occiput.

The cranial cavity is inclined backward and lengthened, and curves out above, while the occiput is pressed downward and the region of the front fontanelle is correspondingly lacking.

On a celebrated craniologist visiting the studio of a celebrated sculptor in London, his attention was drawn to a bust with a remarkable depth of skull from the forehead to the occiput.

It was therefore a youthful head, the head of an adolescent cut down at the moment, when life completely unfolds itself to hope; while the elliptical shape of the lower maxillary, the small and similarly-shaped teeth, the slight separation of the nasal bones, a few long hairs still adhering to the occiput, clearly indicated its feminine origin.

The head should be of great depth from the occiput to the base of the lower jaw, and should not in any way be wedge-shaped, dome-shaped, or peaked.

The colour round the eyes and on the ears should be of a darker shade in the red; in the centre of the white line at the occiput there should be a spot of colour.

HEADThe head should be large and massive, the circumference of the skull being more than double the length of the head from nose to occiput.

from the tip of the nose to the back of the occiput is a good measurement for a dog of 32 ins.

The length from the end of the nose to the point between the eyes should be about equal, or preferably of greater length than from this point to the back of the occiput.

exhibiting a moderate amount of stop and not in one straight line from the nose to the occiput bone as required in a Bull-terrier.

* HEADThis should be long, lean, and well balanced, and the length, from the tip of the nose to the eyes, must be the same as from the eyes to the occiput.

THE EARS like those of a Greyhound, small, thin, and placed well back on the head, with the tips, when thrown back, almost touching behind the occiput.

The eye should be placed just halfway between the occiput and the tip of the nose.

* HEADLarge, square and massive, of medium length, broad on top, with a decided occiput; heavy brows with a deep stop; heavy freckled muzzle, with well developed flew.

* HEADThe skull should be moderately long, and also wide, with an indentation in the middle, and a full stop, brows fairly heavy; occiput full, but not pointed, the whole giving an appearance of heaviness without dulness.

* HEADNot so heavy in proportion and not so high in occiput as in the modern Field Spaniel, with a nicely developed muzzle or jaw; lean, but not snipy, and yet not so square as in the Clumber or Sussex varieties, but always exhibiting a sufficiently wide and well-developed nose.

The occiput of the bear, and head bones of other animals killed in the chase, are hung upon poles at the water's side, with some ideographic signs.

OCCIPUT, 267, 444.

He was bald, except a tuft on the occiput, or hinder part of his head, and on dress occasions he wore powder.

There is near the occiput a deep and extensive fracture of the skull, which probably killed him.

GINDALIA, Gray. Head moderate, subquadrangular, covered with regular keeled scales, of the occiput rather smaller.

The life is in the occiput, the soul in the parietal zone, and the mind holds the temporal region near the forehead as its inalienable domicile.

At the occiput: Here is an adventure!

The rest of his face was carefully shaved, the skull bare even to the occiput, where a long tress of white hair was rolled up under his hat.

39 examples of  occiput  in sentences