Citations:skulllike

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English citations of skulllike

similar to a skull
  • 1940, Demetrios A. Michaelarmos, Athene, page 13:
    Ghika is a tall and lean gentleman with a skulllike head and a tiny brown mustache over a mouth of widely-spaced teeth.
  • 1984, Curtis Hudson, Great Preaching on the Resurrection: Seventeen Messages, page 112:
    "Many have not seen any reason why this strange skulllike cliff face could not have been present in our Lord's day."
  • 1994, Buffie Johnson, Lady of the Beasts: The Goddess and her Sacred Animals, page 236:
    "From the artistic jewelry of pagan France, a golden belt buckle displays a figure whose skulllike face is indicative of the Goddess of Death."
  • 2003, Laurie Wilson, Alberto Giacometti: Myth, Magic, and the Man, page 236:
    "With his bald, skulllike head, wasp waist, and fleshless body, the figure resembles a Holocaust survivor."
  • 2005, N. D. Hansen-Hill, Light Play, page 99:
    "This creature was frayed and skeletal — its skulllike visage and gaping mouth patchily dressed in shreds of flesh..."
  • 2007, Donald Tyson and Anne Strokes, Necronomicon Tarot Kit, page 94:
    "His cheeks are so hollow and his face so pale, she has a skulllike appearance."