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Past the half-opened curtains she could see into the other room, and beyond that, to the narrow slit of darkness that seemed to hover a few feet in front of the opposite wall: an eyepit into Hell, a crack opening to the haunted abysses from which they had so newly escaped.

The tight skin went slack about his face and his eyepits fell to the cold marble floor.

These were old, greenish, as if overgrown in part by some vile lichen, and each had been braced to lie face up, the eyepits, the gaping jaws turned toward the sky.

It is obviously advantageous for an animal to receive more detailed information about where it is going to than about where it has come from, and it is therefore not surprising that as well as the mouth at the front end of the planaria there is a concentration of sense organs, such as light-sensitive eyepits, and to process the information arriving from these sense organs there is a group of ganglia concentrated in the head - forming at last the forerunners of real brains.

His black eyepits aimed themselves at Joe like the mouths of siege guns.

The fanged and grinning head, turned up by some freak so that the empty eyepits stared at the two men above, bore a photographic resemblance to the dragons of his childhood reading!

Like all scryers she was blind, and more, her eyepits were scooped hollows as black as space.

Rhion as if the sunken eyepits still had sight, as if the dark, haughty gaze he had once had was still his to compel, to command.

Where eyepits should have been, each boy carried two silver-crystal disks somehow embedded between eyebrow and cheekbone.

According to the custom of the scryers she daubed the oil into the hollows of her eyepits, coating the scars with concealing blackness.

Then the wavering blueness coalesced and stilled, filling her vacant eyepits as water fills a cup.

She returned his stare, noted the whiteless eyes, the stained eyepits, the dust-rimmed beard and mustache, the line of the catchtube curving down from his nostrils into his stillsuit.

The stained eyepits and blue darkness of eyes appeared even darker under the yellow globes.