" "Why, thash's skull of a hog," explains Mr. McLAUGHLIN, with some contempt.

There lay their bones, the flesh eaten from them by the beasts and carrion birds, and, bleached by the sun and the storms, the two skulls with the horns still interlocked; and the narrator told me he had them yet at home, fast together, as he found them, as one of the curiosities to be met with in the Rackett woods.

In the fall of 1894 I discovered eleven large ram skulls in one place, and since that time found four more near by.

Start not, nor deem my spot fled; In me behold the only skull From which, unlike a living head, Whatever flows is never dull.

It extends from the base of the skull to the lower border of the first lumbar vertebra, where it narrows off to a slender filament of gray substance.

Some of the old herbalists speak of moss gathered from a skull as useful for disorders of the head, and hence it was gathered and preserved.

A man walking on the sandy margin of a river, about two or three miles from Carl's house, saw a skull before him.

The ball went crashin' through his skull into his brain, and he went down.

"Every strideevery stamp, Every footfall is bolder; 'Tis a skeleton's tramp, With a skull on its shoulder!

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.

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.

But among the multitude of inferior castes who do come there is a greater variety of feature and shape of skull than in an average multitude, as far as I have seen, of any European nation.

To be visible from the Devil's seat, it was necessary that the object, if small, should be white; and there is nothing like your human skull for retaining and even increasing its whiteness under exposure to all vicissitudes of weather.

In no case have we found more than twenty-five skulls without encountering some "trepanned" specimens among them.

I fancy they expected an immediate order for my decapitation, or for my ears to be cut off at the very least, but feeling I might as well be 'in for a pound as for a penny,' I fired again, and tumbled the huge brute over, with a bullet through the skull behind the ear.

And each instinctively put a man's skull beside it, bleached and white, with shadow eyes.

The Flathead Indian squeezes the child's skull between two boards till it shapes itself into a kind of gambrel-roof against the rain,the readiest way, perhaps, of uniforming a tribe that wear no clothes.

A lizard, for instance, which has been found in the Keuper, had a skull like a bird's, and no teetha type which is now quite extinct.

And, however much my face clouds with sombre vanity, or vulgar vengeance, or contemptible contempt, the bones of my skull beneath it are laughing for ever.

Quitting the traitor Bocca's barking soul, We saw two more, so iced up in one hole, That the one's visage capp'd the other's head; And as a famish'd man devoureth bread, So rent the top one's teeth the skull below 'Twixt nape and brain.

The next three pairs of nerves all arise from the medulla, and escape from the cavity of the skull through the same foramen.

He trepanned a portion of the skull around the old wound and actually found a bone splinter lodged in the man's brain.

She no longer wept: her child's death had made her ferociousshe wished to bite or to dash her skull against the wall.

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

In glades they meet skull after skull Where pine-cones laythe rusted gun, Green shoes full of bones, the mouldering coat And cuddled-up skeleton; And scores of such.