Black shadows filled the eye-sockets, and gave to the face an uncertain, cavernous look, as though it saw and pondered.

This vertebra consists of a ring of bone, having two cup-like sockets into which fit two bony projections arising on either side of the great opening (foramen magnum) in the occipital bone.

I have met with such cases; but Mr. Bell details a remarkable instance in point: "A child, about three years of age, was brought to me, having a most extensive ulceration in the gum of the lower jaw, by which the alveolar process (that portion of the jaw which forms the sockets of the teeth) was partially denuded.

Ay, stare at the smoke till ye're eyes drop frae th' sockets!

Each pole has in the side facing the other a socket into which a cross-piece as thick as a man's arm is fitted.

The spring-latch of the American lock found its socket with a soft click.

That sag had come now to Mrs. Ross, giving her eye-sockets a look of unconquerable weariness.

A glass occupied a socket in his chair, and when the Rio Negro rolled a lump of ice tinkled against its rim; a box of choice cigars lay on the deck.

And overhead the eye-socket of the light and of the sky gleamed down, and the distant rack of clouds seemed to touch the lofty arch over which it shot along!

"Speakin' of hosses, Buck," said his father, "they's a black out in the shed right now that'd make your eyes jest nacherally pop out'n their sockets.

On one of his journeys down, he came upon several gangs of men at work on the moors; putting down stone sockets and fixing telegraph poles.

Spear-heads, too, are of beautiful bronze-gold, with tracings round the socket of great excellence and charm.

I saw the greenish-gleaming, empty eye sockets of the skull.

The shaggy eyebrows, throwing the eye-sockets into shadow, gave him, in conjunction with the spectacles, the same owlish, solemn expression that I had noticed in my Kennington acquaintance; and which, by the way, was singularly out of character with the frivolous behaviour that I had just witnessed.

This plan was altered on perceiving the torch of life more rapidly approaching the socket than he had at first supposed.

The Rio Negro was getting upright and as the lamp turned in its socket the light moved across the wall.

The depth of the cutter for attaching the socket to the rod is 1 inch, and its thickness 5/16 inch.

in length, and in the middle of the cut turn the knife downwards and cut out a thin wedge-shaped socket.