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Examples

  • Tuilagi will now stake his claim for a Test recall for the Tigers against Saracens this Sunday, having recovered from a serious facial injury which required the insertion of a titanium plate to hold his eye-socket together.

    I won't be jumping off any more ferries, promises Manu Tuilagi 2012

  • Antique skull watch tells time with eye-socket snakes

    Boing Boing 2007

  • The hookers should arrive by about 5ish and the free needle distribution for the popular "Shove a rusty needle in your eye-socket" begins at about 8.

    Memories, From The Corner Of My Eyes 2007

  • The hookers should arrive by about 5ish and the free needle distribution for the popular "Shove a rusty needle in your eye-socket" begins at about 8.

    Archive 2007-12-01 2007

  • But if you want to get into his brain, I recommend the eye-socket.'

    Some Memorable First Lines Liviu 2009

  • At the same time, one of the snakes slowly sinks back down into one of the eye sockets, while the other slowly comes out of the other eye, before retracting suddenly, as the first snake again springs out from its eye-socket.

    Boing Boing 2007

  • In one popular technique, a medical instrument known as an ice-pick due to its similarity to a normal ice-pick was passed through the eye-socket and struck with a mallet until the right position was reached.

    dailycomic Diary Entry dailycomic 2008

  • So, as soon as the lion paraded Paris with his mane, his beard and moustaches, his waistcoats and his eyeglass, maintained in its place, without the help of his hands, by the contraction of his cheek, and eye-socket, the chief towns of some departments had their sub-lions, who protested by the smartness of their trouser-straps against the untidiness of their fellow-townsmen.

    Albert Savarus 2007

  • This remarkable effect was produced by the depth of the eye-socket, under which the eye moved free from its setting; the arch of the brow was so accurate as to resemble the groining of a vault.

    Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

  • So, as soon as the lion paraded Paris with his mane, his beard and moustaches, his waistcoats and his eyeglass, maintained in its place, without the help of his hands, by the contraction of his cheek, and eye-socket, the chief towns of some departments had their sub-lions, who protested by the smartness of their trouser-straps against the untidiness of their fellow-townsmen.

    Albert Savarus 2007

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