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- noun Alternative spelling of
eye socket .
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Examples
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Feeling cautiously upward, I found the curve of eyesocket and brow, and the small ridge of the folded ear.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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The police deputy, a weathered old man with a scar through his left eyesocket, made it clear that it would be best if I got into his beat-up Ford Fiesta with the lonely siren on top, and venture out into the sun-beaten city to help him.
Archive 2007-12-01 Hal Duncan 2007
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Croaking in pain, the Rillyti dropped its spear to tear the needle from its eyesocket in a spray of ichor, its convulsive gesture ripping a jagged wound through the orbit.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Bloodstone - Karl Edward Wagner Blue Tyson 2009
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If he wasn't in position to throw an over-hand punch, he threw a roundhouse right to the temple or eyesocket.
The Margaret Atwoods 2009
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The police deputy, a weathered old man with a scar through his left eyesocket, made it clear that it would be best if I got into his beat-up Ford Fiesta with the lonely siren on top, and venture out into the sun-beaten city to help him.
Appoggiatura Hal Duncan 2007
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Then my first two fingers slipped into an indentation that was almost certainly an eyesocket.
Duma Key King, Stephen, 1947- 2008
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Holding the blunt object in both hands, he drove it into the thing's face, striking home just above the right eyesocket.
Duma Key King, Stephen, 1947- 2008
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"They can take my pen when they pry it from the eyesocket of the unfortunate cougar." or something like that
The pen is mightier... Ann Althouse 2007
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Right eyesocket (frontal view): the left arrow shows the bony protuberance of the supraorbital notch, and the right arrow shows the frontal notch.
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Right eyesocket (internal view): the left arrow shows the bony protuberance of the supraorbital notch, and the right arrow shows the frontal notch.
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