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His head was shrunken and cadaverous and blue, as if all the juice of life had been drained away, and his eyes in their pitlike sockets had a wild, glazed stare.

Science Fiction Hall of Fame Various, 1973

With one hand still on Baree's head, she pointed with the other into the pitlike blackness of the forest.

Baree, Son of Kazan James Oliver Curwood 1903

That day, and the next, and all that week he worked in his pitlike studio.

The Danger Mark A. B. [Illustrator] Wenzell 1899

On the dark skin of the external vulva the scars resulting from healing of the ulcers are white, more or less circular in outline, from one-eighth to half an inch in diameter, and pitlike.

Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877

I saw many considerable depressions in the glacial surface, also a pitlike hole, irregular, not like the ordinary wells along the slope of the many small dirt-clad hillocks, faced to the south.

Travels in Alaska John Muir 1876

In their place he notes everywhere pitlike depressions of bowl-shaped form, the sink holes to which we have already adverted.

Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography Nathaniel Southgate Shaler 1873

At about ten o’clock on the morning of October 16, a group of doctors gathered in a pitlike room at the center of the hospital.

The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

At about ten o’clock on the morning of October 16, a group of doctors gathered in a pitlike room at the center of the hospital.

The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

At about ten o’clock on the morning of October 16, a group of doctors gathered in a pitlike room at the center of the hospital.

The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010