Which preposition to use with orifice
" He rests the elongated orifice of the diaphanous flask upon his lips for a brief interval of critical inspection, and then applies it thoughtfully to the mouth of OLD MORTARITY.
In water-animals the latter are wanting; sound, in them, being transmitted merely through orifices in the head, which have the name of auditory-holes.
The best are made from hard-skinned fruits, whose whole pulp is liquified by piercing the rind before the fruit is fully ripe, and closing the orifice with a wax-like substance, almost exactly according to a practice common in different parts of Asia.
These were little, square, Bedlam cells, where a boy could just lie at his length upon straw and a blanketa mattress, I think, was afterwards substitutedwith a peep of light, let in askance, from a prison-orifice at top, barely enough to read by.
ORIFICES FOR TREADING OUT
Back within the main works we saw where a shell had bored a smooth, round orifice through eight meters of earth and a meter and a half of concrete and steel plates.
There was a small quantity of coagulated blood in the stomach; but I could discover no orifice from which it could have issued; and therefore supposed it to have been squeezed out of the lungs, by the animal's straining while it was vomiting.
A, cardiac end; B, pyloric end, C, lesser curvature, D, greater curvature] The orifice by which the food enters is called the cardiac opening, because it is near the heart.
There is a cave in the rock beside the road, which the superstitious look upon as the orifice out of which his Satanic Majesty issued.
The orifice on this side is only ten feet below the edge of the western bank.
The outer set runs lengthwise from the cardiac orifice to the pylorus.
These lesser jets, thrown so much higher than the main column and shooting through it, doubtless proceed from auxiliary pipes leading into the principal orifice near the bottom, where the explosive force is greater.