Do we say scull or skull

scull 58 occurrences

" There was but one oar in the boat, which the negroes used as a scull.

" They were in the boat now, and Jack was sending it forward by lusty lunges against every protruding object he could get a stroke at; when these failed he managed to scull after a fashion.

the barks shot through the waters, propelled by the single scull, as swiftly as an Indian canoe.

The room was a low one, and once, when the child was not five years old, his father, who was tossing him wildly up in his arms, hit the poor little chap's scull so violently against the ceiling that he almost dropped him, so terrified was he at the disaster.

From a Tartar's scull they had stripp'd the flesh, As ye peel the fig when its fruit is fresh, And their white tusks crunched on the whiter scull, As it slipp'd through their jaws when their edge grew dull.

From a Tartar's scull they had stripp'd the flesh, As ye peel the fig when its fruit is fresh, And their white tusks crunched on the whiter scull, As it slipp'd through their jaws when their edge grew dull.

Thieves, i' faith, wife, my scull, my Iacke, my browne bill. CON. Come away quickly.

Then, digging in my scull to avoid a desolate-looking beacon, I added anxiously: "What about Tommy?

That Scull had a tongue in it, and could sing once: how the knaue iowles it to th' grownd,

There's another: why might not that bee the Scull of of a Lawyer?

Heres a Scull now: this Scul, has laine in [Sidenote: now hath iyen you i'th earth 23.

This same Scull Sir, this same Scull sir, was Yoricks

This same Scull Sir, this same Scull sir, was Yoricks

[Sidenote: once; this same skull sir, was sir Yoricks] Scull, the Kings Iester.

Not far from the Great Morie, was 2 or 3 pretty large altars, where lay the scull bones of some Hogs and Dogs.

I'll tell my mother I must be back in London to dinner, make my bow, jump into a boat, and scull down to Chelsea.

The scull will do me good, and ifif she has gone on the water with that snob, why I shall know the worst.

" Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Annie Young, 913 West Scull Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 76 "My old master's name was Sam Knox.

As Mansfield nears, His fury stoppage found He lays about, and cleaves his scull, And smites him to the ground.

There was no tiller, but Ken found a broken scull at the bottom of the boat with which he contrived to steer.

John W. Scroggs (E); 26Mar71; R503245. SCULL, JOHN E. Ship wiring: a primer of cable and fixture installation.

Lucy Hill Scull (W); 17Jun71; R507571. SCULL, LUCY HILL.

Lucy Hill Scull (W); 17Jun71; R507571. SCULL, LUCY HILL.

SEE SCULL, JOHN E. SEAMAN, SYLVIA.

We could not easily have forgiven you several Strokes in the Dissection of the Coquets Heart, if you had not, much about the same time, made a Sacrifice to us of a Beaus Scull.

skull 1209 occurrences

He heard the hindermost say to the foremost, "Leave him alone, I tell you, and he'll knock himself down in a minute," and, in a passionately reckless effort of sheer bravado to catch the club from one hand with the other while it yet circled swiftly over his skull, he accidentally brought the ungovernable weapon into tremendous contact with the top of his head, and dashed himself violently to the earth.

The first thing she saw as she came into the village was a man's skull hanging from the end of a pole and swinging slowly in the breeze.

One of the desperadoes was in the act of striking her with the butt end of a revolver, and while his arm was still raised, Bill sent a ball crashing through his skull, killing him instantly.

Hwuy-king, Hwuy-tah, and Tâo-ching had gone on before the rest to Nagâra, to make their offerings at the places of Buddha's shadow, tooth, and the flat-bone of his skull.

Hwuy-king came to his end in the monastery of Buddha's alms-bowl, and on this -hien went forward alone towards the place of the flat-bone of Buddha's skull.

CHAPTER XIII ~Festival of Buddha's Skull-bone~ Going west for sixteen yojanas, he came to the city He-lo in the borders of the country of Nagâra, where there is the flat-bone of Buddha's skull, deposited in a vihâra adorned all over with gold-leaf and the seven sacred substances.

CHAPTER XIII ~Festival of Buddha's Skull-bone~ Going west for sixteen yojanas, he came to the city He-lo in the borders of the country of Nagâra, where there is the flat-bone of Buddha's skull, deposited in a vihâra adorned all over with gold-leaf and the seven sacred substances.

In the midst of the city there is also the tope of Buddha's tooth, where offerings are made in the same way as to the flat-bone of his skull.

Their possession of an auditory organ was long doubted, and even denied by some physiologists; but it has been found placed on the sides of the skull, or in the cavity which contains the brain.

It occupies a position entirely distinct and detached from the skull, and, in this respect, differs in the local disposition of the same sense in birds and quadrupeds.

In some fishes, as in those of the ray kind, the organ is wholly encompassed by those parts which contain the cavity of the skull; whilst in the cod and salmon kind it is in the part within the skull.

With these weapons ever ready, in the hand of an Indian, either to cut his way through the forest, to fell the timbers for his wigwam or his canoe, to slay the game that his arrows have brought to the ground, or to cleave the skull of his enemydid old Masasoyt and his devoted followers divide the large tough climbing plants that obstructed their passage.

THE PITUITARY In the human skull, the pituitary is a lump of tissue about the size of a pea lying at the base of the brain, a short distance behind the root of the nose.

The pituitary is cradled in a niche at the base of the skull which, because of its form, is known as the Sella Turcica or Turkish saddle.

"Nature's darling treasure" it might be called, since there has been provided a skull within the skull to shelter it.

Trepanning of the skull, the geologic record indicates, was done even by the cave man.

If the growth of the skull has left a roomy sella turcica for the pituitary to grow in, the intellect may be normal or even superior, though energy is below par.

Then the fifth bullet, driven likewise by a very weak charge of powder, pierced the skull at a point where it was thin and tore into his brain.

The eyebrows themselves are luxurious and slope to meet, the bony development of the face as a whole is sharp and clean-cut, the skull tends to be long and narrow and the chin is square.

But the bust in the Museum of Naples, for which he probably sat (some, H.G. Wells among them, will not accept this), presents the sort of face that is often seen in pituitary epileptics, and the features and skull of a pituitocentric: long, large, well-modeled head eyebrows prominent, with tendency to meet, aquiline nose and strong chin.

Lancelot, I verily believe, would have kept his promise, though he saw that the keepers gave ground, finding Cockney skill too much for their clumsy strength; but at last Harry Verney, who had been fighting as venomously as a wild cat, and had been once before saved from a broken skull by Tregarva, rolled over at his very feet with a couple of poachers on him.

It began to penetrate the thick skull of the trader that there was something unnatural about their crouched silence.

A square of black tarpaulin had the white skull painted upon it, and was hoisted amidst cheering at the main.

Its victim dropped without a cry, but the impact of the blow was loud in the nocturnal stillness of that bystreet, and was echoed in magnified volume by the crack of a skull in collision with a convenient lamppost.

The long, low, black schooner, which could sail dead to windward through the pages of the cheap "yellow-covers," and the likeness of which sported its skull and crossbones on the said covers, is to be met with nowhere else.

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