What is "skulls"

Usage examples of "skulls".

I think well have drawn together into that cohesive four-sided unit that the Book of Skulls calls a Receptacle: that is, a group of candidates.

The decision, says Eli, citing appropriate chapter and verse from the Book of Skulls, must be genuinely voluntary, arising out of a pure wish for self-sacrifice, or it will not release the proper vibrations.

The Book of Skulls says that candidates have to present themselves in fours.

Ned has much faith in the Book of Skulls, but his position is that if any of it is true, then the Ninth Mystery must be interpreted as demanding two deaths.

I have faith in the Book of Skulls, yes, because I have faith in it, and so I spppose I accept the literal interpretation of the Ninth Mystery, too.

Eli has his papers out and studies them intently: the manuscript of his translation of the Book of Skulls, the Xeroxes of the newspaper clippings that led him to connect the place in Arizona with the antique and implausible cult whose scripture the book may have been, and his mass of peripheral documents and references.

I have read in the Book of Skulls is real, and what we have come to find in the wastes of Arizona is real, and that if we persevere we will be granted that which we seek.

Keepers of the Skulls is the heart of a busy city, where the contrast between their texture and ours would be greatest.

Only an accident that I should, a few days later, come upon the manuscript of the Book of Skulls in the university library.

Were eight beautifully painted human skulls, each set off from the next by a border of columns and a little Romanesque vault.

Moors might have brought this tale of skulls to Catalonia in the eighth or ninth century.

From left to right stretched a series of black basalt skulls, similar to the one we had seen farther back but much smaller, about the size of basketballs, set in the sand at intervals of perhaps twenty inches.

On the far side of the row of Skulls, some fifty yards beyond, we saw the House of Skulls crouching like a sphinx in the desert: a fairly large one-story building, flattopped, with coarse yellow-brown stucco walls.

The effect was one of stark simplicity, broken only by the frieze running along the pediment: skulls in low relief, presenting their left profiles.

By dim strands of light I caught glimpses of embellishment on the walls: skulls, skulls, skulls.