Sockets
['sɑkɪt]
Examples
- He has the same deep eye-sockets. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- They projected so far, and they rolled about so loosely, that you wondered uneasily why they remained in their sockets. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Search him, slaves--for an ye suffer a second impostor to be palmed upon you, I will have your eyes torn out, and hot coals put into the sockets. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- His eyes were blue and keen as ever, and as firm in their sockets. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The candles were flickering in their sockets. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The wells of the brass double-inkstand danced in their sockets. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- On looking up under the second gallery at this end is seen a great roll resting in sockets placed on each side of the room. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Here were made all the small things used on the electric-lighting system, such as sockets, chandeliers, switches, meters, etc. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- His manners, she thought, were very dignified; the set of his iron-gray hair and his deep eye-sockets made him resemble the portrait of Locke. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Our eyes cannot turn in their sockets without varying our perceptions. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Presently I saw the great eyes of my beast bulging completely from their sockets and blood flowing from its nostrils. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- On either side of her thin, hawk-like nose her eyes burned from the depths of horribly sunken sockets. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- His face was taking on a livid hue, his eyes were bulging from their sockets. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The slabs, where they join, are then bored along the edges and brass dowels are inserted which engage sockets set in the opposite slab. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The back of the rubber is reinforced by a wood strip, into which are placed metal sockets. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Inputed by Estella