He has been excavating a barrow at Long Down and has got a prehistoric skull which fills him with great joy.
I presume, Doctor, that you could tell theskull of a negro from that of an Esquimau?
Mortimer for opening a grave without the consent of the next of kin because he dug up the Neolithic skull in the barrow on Long Down.
I presume, sir," said he at last, "that it was not merely for the purpose of examining my skull that you have done me the honour to call here last night and again today?
I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development.
The gleam of the match which he struck shone upon his clotted fingers and upon the ghastly pool which widened slowly from the crushed skull of the victim.
Mackenzie noticed that the infants had their heads enclosed with boards covered with leather, to press the skull into the shape of a wedge.
One of these was theskull of the bison with its horns.
In an ancient tumulus near Borrely, in Denmark, a humanskull was discovered which was adjudged by its surroundings to belong to the 'stone period' of Denmark, or the era of the Scotch fir.
The means to be employed are the trephining of the skull over the seat of the fracture and the elevation of the depressed bone or the removal of the portion which is causing the trouble.
The back of his skull is smashed in," he said laconically.
I want to know what he did with himself between the time when he walked out of the Anglo-Orient Hotel, alive and well, and the time when he was found in Middle Temple Lane, with his skullbeaten in and dead.
The police-surgeon said that the dead man had, without doubt, been struck down from behind by a terrible blow which had fractured the skull and caused death almost instantaneously.
And next second he had ducked under the bench, and thrust his head through the round hole, so that his skull was brought into contact with some of those padded thumb-screws.
When I had taken my seat a huge weight had dropped from above and crushed my stool to splinters, much as it would have crushed my skull had I not leaped instantly aside.
Nobody would ever look at him twice, would ever guess that his skull concealed an unusually complete knowledge of electricity, mechanisms, and such practical matters.
So let us cease this talk of skull crushing and converse upon more pleasant subjects.
His powerful tail was raised high to one side, and as he passed close above them he brought it down in one terrific sweep that crushed a green warrior's skull as though it had been an eggshell.
Beg my pardon, or be sure a kindly bullet through your skull Lets in light and teaches manner to what brain it finds!
Deerfoot's weapon sped as direct as a rifle-ball, and clove the skull of the Wyandot as though it were card-paper.
At the moment Ned drew his gun to position, he caught the flash of the implement as it circled with lightning quickness over the bronzed skull of his enemy.
When it left the hand of the warrior, it was with a force that would have cloven the skull of the lad, as though it were cardboard.
There George of Gorbals lay, skull and bones all blanched and grey, In the arms he bore the day Of the fight!
A rusted blade in a chest cage showed where a knife had pierced a heart; a small skull near his feet (with a scrap of faded blue rompers near it) was shattered.
He even remembered the series of blows about the skull that had knocked him out.
Cries of horror escaped us as we saw him strike a rugged ledge of rock far below, rebound, and then fall head foremost to the rock's base, his skull already battered to a pulp.
Suddenly the chief executioner took one of his knives which had a human skull upon the hilt, and holding it up, commanded silence.
Down came the "Black Roger" with its skull and crossbones from the fore, and Colonel Rhett had the glory of fetching back as pretty a cargo of scoundrels and cutthroats as the town ever saw.
Up goes the black flag, and the skull and crossbones to the fore.
But brain and skull do not always correspond with sufficient closeness; and besides, Sir William Hamilton has shown conclusively, I believe, that phrenology is quackery; its principles are not scientific and its observations not reliable.
This bit of the skull was scraped to dust into a cup of water, which the lad had to swallow, not knowing the contents.
Next they tried the effect of a bit of the skull of a suicide, and sent for this treasure a distance of from sixty to one hundred miles.
Is there a skull in England that would require a second blow of that small article?
There, a man had been discovered dead; his skull fractured by the blow of some blunt instrument, and his pockets rifled of every thing they had contained.
This conclusion was afterwards confirmed, for in 1846 he received part of the fossile skull of a beast of prey of the size of the lion, which he named thylacoleo, i.
Judge Rawle was not alone; that blasted skull thumper was sitting there, watching the prisoner with the same keenness he had shown the other day.
Why had he had that afternoon session with the skull thumper?
Do you think I can break open my skull and hand you a piece of what is inside?
His captive having writhed himself half out of the corner of the room, Ross debated the wisdom of another silencing--say a tap on the skull with the heavy hilt of his dagger.
He wore a dull-green outer garment cut in one piece to cover his arms and legs as well as his body, and his hair was so short that his round skull might have been shaven.
Charred posts still stood like lone teeth in a skullto mark what must have once been one of the stockade walls of a post.
It makes one think of the old stories we used to read as kids, of the black flag with the skull and crossbones and all that sort of thing.
When the cemetery was being cleared the bones must have been heaped up in this corner; for even to-day it frequently happens that one's foot comes across some fragment of a skull lying concealed in the damp turf.
Granoux put on a black silkskull cap which he had brought with him by way of precaution.
Inside the church on the right hand is a niche containing a skull to which the peasants make offerings of grain, to cure headaches.
Part of hisskull is in a carved oak bust in the chapel, but is not exposed to veneration, as authenticating documents are non-extant.
This so exasperated Tanguy, that with an axe he split theskull of the Duke.
None know whose skull it is, but it has recently been enclosed in a wooden silvered bust of S.
Brother Martin, indeed, sometimes feared the Devil would twist his neck or press his skull into his brains.
Let the pious idiots, however numerous, be swept aside, and let the Christian with a fair supply of brains in his skull consider Providence in the light of this earthquake.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "skull" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bone; crossbones; death; head; skull
