What is "eyesocket"

Usage examples of "eyesocket".

The windows gaped like the empty eyesockets of some ancient skull, while the soaring chimneys and charred roofbeams now gave roost to a flock of cawing crows which rose in an ebon cloud, loudly shrieking protest, when a trio of dragoons clambered through a front window and drew the rusty bolts so that their officer might enter.

He needn't have worried: a second rock smacked the cat between the ruined eyesockets, crushing the skull.

The figure's hood fell back, and a naked skull turned its empty eyesockets towards him.

The figure’s hood fell back, and a naked skull turned its empty eyesockets towards him.

If the son had been shocked by the father's appearance, the father was also dully shocked by his son's ­to Michael, the boy's eyesockets looked nearly like a skull's vacant orbs in the failing light.

It had run like warm taffy and made itself into this funnel shape that flattened her nose and pulled her eyesockets all long and Chinese to the sides and made her look like some kind of insect.

It had run like warm taffy and made itself into this funnel shape that flattened her nose and pulled her eyesockets all long and Chinese to the sides and made her look like some kind of insect .

The shops that gazed like the gloomy eyesockets of skulls into the narrow lanes seemed to be of only three typessecondhand clothes, pawnshops, or gin palaces from whose doors, even at this hour of the afternoon, trickled snatches of drunken singing.

The halogen lamp jammed into his left eyesocket lit the way for the rest of them.

Both heads were intact, although the mouths and nostrils and empty eyesockets were filled with the white rice pudding of eggs laid by the swarming flies.