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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

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