| 单词 | skull |
| 例句 | Ralph positioned the fish skull so that it faced his sister, opening and shutting its jaw as he mimicked her. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry looked around; all three of the Dursleys were cowering with their arms over their heads as their glasses bounced up and down on their skulls, their contents flying everywhere. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The Death Mist shimmered around her, temporarily turning her face into a grinning skull. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z His hand closed over my arm, and it was like a bee had been set loose inside of my skull. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Limbs and fragmented skulls lay on top of the bog, and the water in the swamp had been replaced by blood. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “Ah, well, they got it wrong then, when they wrote that label. That skull with the two holes in it is thirty-three thousand years old.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He fell into a coma and died two days later from a massive skull fracture. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z First thing in the morning she hastened down to the catacombs and restored the daemon-coins to their rightful places, and whispered “Sorry! Sorry!” to the skulls. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The tree shuddered as he banged it with his skull, and he pivoted around it, stumbling. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Her dark blond hair was plastered against her skull, framing a pink scar that curved between her top lip and nose. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z She could imagine a thousand heinous people who might have some bone to pick out of Richie's skull— even his friends were scary. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z “So you’ve just decided? I didn’t think it worked like that. I thought love was supposed to happen when you least expected it, like a sap to the skull.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z When the brain swells, it pushes against the skull, and that squeezes the blood vessels that supply the brain. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z From there the skulls ranged upward in size to the three great monsters of song and story, the dragons that Aegon Targaryen and his sisters had unleashed on the Seven Kingdoms of old. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He felt his brain pinging up, down, left, right, inside his skull. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z I raised my head a little, so now the top of my skull was under his chin. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Ben slides the Cog along my neck at the top of my spine, until it catches in the indent at the base of my skull. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Tufts of black hair clung to her skull. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The clansman's hand was so big he could have crushed the maester's skull like an eggshell had he squeezed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The manual gearshift was a metal skull with eyes that lit up whenever Toby hit the gas. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z “Get out, rats! Leave this Abbey! I’m weary of your voices. Hurry before I break the laws of hospitality and ask the Abbot’s pardon later. Go, while you still have skulls.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z My headache, which had almost fallen asleep when I had, woke up and hollered in my skull. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He walked out on the beach to the edge of the light and stood with his clenched fists on top of his skull and fell to his knees sobbing in rage. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z A black figure stood waiting for me at the head of the stairs, the hollow eyes watching me intently from the white skull’s face. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z In her place was a skull with empty sockets, a few strips of marble-colored skin clinging to its cheekbones, and a lock or two of moldy hair at its nape. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Bits of flesh still clung to the bear skull, Jon noted as he joined the line riding past. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Most were sheep bones, but there were horses too, and cattle, and now and again a human skull, or a headless skeleton with weeds poking up through its rib cage. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z His eyes glowed unnaturally blue, and when he opened his mouth to speak, she saw his skin sliding over the bones of his skull. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s a reporter on screen now, dark hair slick against his skull. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z When I close my eyes, the chopper slices and throbs in my skull. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Each of the other skulls, they found, had its own daemon-coin, showing its owner’s lifetime companion still close to him in death. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He stood, the skull about on a level with his face, and held up his hair with two hands. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z So that only the top of its flat skull and its eyes projected above ground. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z For the sweet, each guest was served a skull of spun sugar. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Bull kept chanting, “Cry, cry, cry,” each time the ball ricocheted off his son’s skull. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z We walked a little further and were greeted by a curious sight: skulls from the cemetery, gathered into several small piles. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Oh, they just killed people right and left, he claimed, and then they’d put the skulls of their favorite enemies into their household decor. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Finnick gives up at once, hunching on the ground, clenching his hands over his ears as if he’s trying to crush his skull. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The buzzing starts to subside, replaced by a pounding ache that sweeps from ear to ear around the back of my skull. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The headache was sharpening its teeth on the inside of my skull. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “More likely the ground right behind his skull,” I point out, being that it’s such close range. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z He was roofing a temple with the skulls of his victims. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z That left only a round bulb, which was the skull of the thing. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z I pick Natalie up, screaming and fighting, her skull bashing against my chin, and set her as gently as I can on her back on one corner of the rug. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He would never have seen it with his eyes alone, but in the web of light he could peer past the bone into the hollows of the skull. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Axel rests a hand on Ray’s round skull. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Her earrings had skulls and crossbones on them. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z It fitted snugly into the cavity in the skull of the robot on the table. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z “The Empire Strikes Back? The bald guy with the cool bionic radio-transmitter thing that wraps around the back of his skull?” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z Mr. Remora tapped his skull with his index finger. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Brer Fox staggered forward out of the cluster into the middle of the clearing, his ears flat to his skull. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z “At thirty-two feet per second,” he said, “I think it would kill him dead. Four hundred g is enough to shatter the skull.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It takes all the willpower I have for me to steer myself toward the chair and sit down in it again, pressing my skull into the headrest. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z I stare at the back of his head, where the shape of his skull shows through his buzzed hair. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z You could find the sun-parched skulls of coyotes and empty tortoise shells and the rattles and shed skins of rattlesnakes. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Then he’d grab at my own skull, roll the fine straight strands of my hair between his fingers, and gravely shake his head. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Like an anvil falling out of the sky, directly onto my skull. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z But slowly it dawned upon my love-drunk skull: he had only welcomed me there after devising his program to make me whole! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Odin,” whispered Wednesday, and the crash of the breakers on the beach of skulls was not loud enough to drown that whisper. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z He hated Britten so hard and hot, while standing there with sleepy eyes and parted lips, that he would gladly have grabbed the iron shovel from the corner and split his skull in two. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z They have no swords, wear no eye patches, and hang no skull flags anywhere on their ship. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A similar survey of 400 skeletons from the same period in Israel discovered a single crack in a single skull that could be attributed to human violence. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sorry . . . carried away. “I didn’t drop it there, anyway,” said Harry, jerking his thumb toward the trees beneath the skull. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z It was like a maddening itch inside his skull that wouldn’t go away. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The skull snickers and moves ever closer, but that doesn’t surprise me. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z And Harry too looked ahead at the skull, and fear swelled inside him like a venomous bubble, compressing his lungs, driving all other discomfort from his mind... Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Lord Asriel set himself to crushing the breath out of Metatron, grinding his ribs together, and trying to ignore the savage blows that were landing on his skull and his neck. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “He said that he had Anna Brown’s skull,” she recalled. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It hit Noa in the side of the skull, knocking her to the floor. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z If I didn’t gnaw frequently, my lower teeth would soon grow through the top of my skull and puncture my brain and alas, kill me.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The maester’s fingers, normally so sure and deft, turned clumsy as he worked the latch and opened thelid, to reveal the skull within. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I didn’t have a plasma screen, because the costumes budget wasn’t big enough, but from underneath the skull I could look around without anyone noticing. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z As he talks, memories flash across my skull, so hard and bright they hurt. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z There was no planning, no ideas or theories or even any real rage locked inside my skull. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z "I mean to sail to Westeros, and drink the wine of vengeance from the skull of the Usurper." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “His tribe...you mean the people who initiated him? Who drilled his skull?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The stick that had supported a skull hampered him but he would not be parted from his only weapon. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The man reached out, gently cradled the back of Olakunde’s skull, and forced my friend to look down, and then to fall upon his knees. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z I was actually bom with too much cerebral spinal fluid inside my skull. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z His hair was already shaved to the skull. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the gravestones flipped over, revealing a grasping corpse; a headstone turned around, flowers replaced by a grinning skull. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z The Epsteins would be in their synagogue now, wearing skull caps and praying. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z I half-expected to find another photo in the debris of the same girls facing forward, revealing grinning skulls for faces. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Harry was just able to make out the indistinct features of an object that looked like a skull, and something like a mountain that was more shadow than substance. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Melisandre’s face darkened, “TTiat creature is dangerous. Many a time I have glimpsed him in my flames. Sometimes there are skulls about him, and his lips are red with blood.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z From this angle, it was easy to see that the large black stones on top of the hill were arranged to look like a human skull. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z In their gray-and-black dress uniforms, their peaked hats adorned with silver skulls and crossbones sitting on their tables, they stood out from the rest of the crowd—neat, severe, and ominous. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He looked at the back of Lennie’s head, at the place where the spine and skull were joined. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z She had the big eyes, smooth skin, and small nose, but her cheekbones were too tight, the skull practically visible beneath her flesh. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z As soon as we stepped in, he loped up to the bars of his cage and set off a full-throated snarl, ears flat against his skull and round eyes fixed on Babu. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Without waiting for her to respond, he looked over at the skull and blinked. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Her gray oily hair clings to her skull and her chest contracts and expands in shallow breaths beneath her black clothes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Reader, have you ever felt the layers of difference between the bone of your skull and the skin stretched over it? Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z And then, amid this inert matter, she appears, holding on to the ship’s line, a girl in a pink dress the water darkens to red, hair plastered to her small skull. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The paralysis spread lower, until it felt like I had a metal rod running the length of my back and into my skull. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z While she was in the bathroom, I got ready for our date by taping the sensors onto my heart and skull. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z That wasn’t a boulder that looked like a skull. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z My father’s skull, on one side, was crushed in, I was told later. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d never asked me for a Father’s Day card, much less somebody’s skull. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z He stumbled on a ring still scorched by fire, and in the midst of it he found a pile of charred and broken bones and skulls. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “I think the world isn’t always a fair place. The sooner you get that through your thick skull, the sooner you can get on with your life.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z It was in this posture that he noted—how had he missed it before?—the wound to the skull over the dead man’s left ear. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Otto got spooked at all the noise and wrapped himself around my skull. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z There Was a real skull of a medium-size animal, maybe a cat or a skunk, and a well-preserved dead tarantula. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Beneath decomposing lids, the eyes are sunken deep into the skull. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z My hand was stiff from cracking Kerns’s skull, but I’d made my fist really tight, so I knew I didn’t break anything. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z The world was spinning, twisting tighter and tighter around her skull. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He pried out the jaw of one fossil from the rock, like a mad dentist, then returned the next week to extract a huge skull from the quartz. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He purred with Gray under his silver mother’s rough tongue, tasted her warm milk, felt the weight of her chin resting over his newborn skull. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “This wight worked as an oral surgeon. It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that the skull he’s posing with belonged to one of his peculiar victims.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z His hands are on his hips, and he looks as though he wants to bash my skull. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “You know what I heard Simon say?” said Bella “He said that the Tartars make holes in their skulls to let the Dust in.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z My head rocked back, my skull hitting plaster. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The polished skulls of the last dragons staring down sightlessly from the walls of .the throne room while the Kingslayer opened Father's throat with a golden sword. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I could feel his teeth grinding into my skull but By didn’t care. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Encountering a second black man, who was making his way home with a bag of groceries, they beat him also, fracturing his skull with a brick. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The black skin stretched upon the bones and their faces split and shrunken on their skulls. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z As he plunged his heavy body into the shallows, Mwase crept behind him and put a bullet into his skull. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z She reached up and lifted the nearest skull gently out of its resting place. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He was wearing a tight T-shirt with skulls on it and black jeans rolled up so that you could see the white laces of his black Doc Martens boots. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Her cane is shiny ebony with an ivory skull on top. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z By binding small, flat pieces of wood to newborns’ foreheads, they pushed up the soft infant bones, making the skull longer and higher than normal. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z My best friend’s voice just kept repeating that phrase, and I gripped my skull as panic and confusion and helplessness pulled me in seventeen different directions. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The words finally got through the man’s thick, stubborn skull. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z And then Seanie was right in my face, saying, “You can see his skull! You can see his skull!” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The flesh of his face was becoming transparent, letting me see straight through to his skull. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “That’s a baby demon skull. And this is a mountain of melted demon bones. And I’m riding over it on a spectral.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z One skull was larger than the rest, grotesquely malformed. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Word was he’d once crushed a man’s skull with his bare hands, wiped his palms clean on his shirtfront, and kept right on drinking. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Her fingers wrap around that skull for dear life. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z I rub the unlucky spot on my skull and clear my throat. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Seaweed clings to her skull like a lethal plant. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Of wearing their skins and skulls and fangs; unkempt, bearded, and reeking of decay; a derelict hull. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z It became a strange sort of hounding as they nudged my skull for my sexual reminiscences. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z A cortege of guards in dress whites came through, followed by a handful of sorry-looking boys, their skulls visible under their shaven heads, their eyes big and scared, their faces swollen with bruises. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Oh, please God make a tree fall on him and smash his skull! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps he was stabbed in the back of his skull. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z She gave his green skull an affectionate tap and let him curl into the heat of her hip. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The skulls look confused, I’m not sure how. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The man’s arms looked capable of crushing a horse’s skull. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Then they passed a massive red crypt decorated with human skulls on iron spikes. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Momentum sends it sailing across the room to slam into a bookshelf and knock a ram’s skull to the ground. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I see the two men standing behind him, the overhead light in the hallway making skulls of their heads. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z He was eventually given the seal’s skull, and he and his cousins displayed it in his bedroom closet, which he called the “Roosevelt Museum of Natural History.” Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z The skulls and bones of small creatures were hung up as macabre decorations. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Looking breathless and disorientated, he spun on the spot, goggling upward at the emerald-green skull. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “Now this one, I can tell this picture. That’s a cow’s skull. Who did that?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Maybe you could do your dining room in mediaeval monk skulls.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “I’m laughing with you. That skull joke was pretty funny.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The hilt was a large silver skull with a ruby in its mouth. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Inside her skull a final gear slid into place. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z There’s a martini glass filled with green liquid, a pack of cigarettes, and a pill bottle with a skull and crossbones label. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z As Gilling’s wife walked through the door, Galar dropped a huge stone on her head, and she fell, her skull half crushed. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z A factory was a hundred stagecoaches all inside one’s skull, banging their wheels against the bone. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t my skull that was ringing; it was the sewer tank. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z I squinted at him through the thrumming pain in my skull. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I put my hand up to feel the shape of my skull beneath the fuzz. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z My ninth I was the Bleeding Scream, the one that has fake blood oozing out over the skull mask. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z They were infinitely flexible, and about as long as her arm, thicker where they joined the head, and quite powerful enough to crush her skull, she guessed. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z As the chupacabras let go of Pita’s leg, I shoved the stake deeper into his skull with the full weight of my body behind it. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z She tried to make her brain tell her, but it lay frozen in her skull like a woolly mammoth deep in a glacier. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z Billy looked up at all the young people in bright elastic clothing and enormous boots and goggles, bombed out of their skulls with snow, swinging through the sky in yellow chairs. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z As if hinged, the boys skull hung open, and the hollow space inside was crowded with familiar faces. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “Was that man the same one that found out about the skulls?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The gun was a Browning automatic pistol and one twitch of the man’s finger would send a 9mm bullet shattering through his skull and into his brain. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z But then it rights itself, and I say, “I have you to thank for the fact that my skull is pretty tough now.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Its mask was a real, grimacing human skull with sunken eye sockets. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z He could feel the edges of the bones grinding together in his skull; he could hear them. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The broken giant’s skull that was his helm rested on the window seat behind him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Nick was a fat offensive lineman with a tattoo of a skull on his hairy shoulder. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Billy had a fractured skull, but he was still conscious. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She watched the words separate inside the skull—baby lingered and flitted from the memory centers to the imaginative structures to the places where the brain enjoys playing with pleasing-sounding words. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The skin of his face had shrunk back against the skull until it defined bone, not flesh, and made the nose and chin seem sharp and fragile. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Big dark eyes popped out of a head that was a layer of skin away from being a skull. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z There were all manner of secrets locked in that old skull. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z His face was a skull with skin, his hair bone-white and filthy. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z My heart pounds so hard I feel it in my skull. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z They performed an autopsy on him, and when they opened his skull, they found a massive, fatal hemorrhage at the center of the brain. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I was bored out of my skull in class. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z He stood up and took off the ridiculous hat and smoothed wet plastered hair across a balding skull. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He scanned the darkness for the person who had conjured the skull, but he couldn’t see anyone. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z All the skulls were grinning, even Bittersteel’s on the tall pike in the center. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The feast continued late into the night, presided over by the grinning skull on its pillar of black marble. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It’s not easy to carry around, especially when encased inside a massive skull. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The shape of his skull could be seen under his skin, and his jaw was clenched so hard Asha feared his teeth might shatter. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “This membrane here? Right under his skull? This right here is the dura mater.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The doctor’s cool fingers probed lightly along my skull. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “It’s the top of your skull,” she said. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Only officials were not wearing the Ihram garb, or the white skull caps, long, white, nightshirt-looking gown and the little slippers of the Mutawaf, those who guided each pilgrim party, and their helpers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Songololo followed until the water went over her waist, then shrieked and climbed her mother, clinging to her skull. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z My hands are in the hot, soapy water when I hear a step behind me and feel thick, callused hands wrap around my skull. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Somehow he formed a coherent thought in the madness that pounded through his skull. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z “I have things in my skull. I need help getting them out of there. Before they eat my brain and start heading for my heart.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z I looked out across the audience from underneath the skull, with Jimmy’s hand under my chin. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z But as if he senses my pathetic attempts at bravery, his hand squeezes, and pain lances through my skull. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z His ears, which had been laid flat back on his skull, came into their proper position, and the fire went out of his eyes. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Faye’s skin had shrunk, clinging to jaw and skull, and her eyes were huge and vacant. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “But I tell you this,” Grandpa would say, taking off his hat and running his fingers over the dent in his skull. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He wore a silver skull ring, a chain for a belt, and a black T-shirt with skull designs. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z On second thought, I would rather have had my soul lamprey-sucked from my skull. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z That's how I feel now, trying to remember how to breathe, unable to speak, totally stunned as the name bounces around the inside of my skull. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z "But if he was this prince that was prom-ised, the promise was broken along with his skull when the Lannisters dashed his head against a wall." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He could keep on her track till they were in some quiet place, and then smash her skull in with a cobblestone. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z And as the wand caught the green light that was filling the clearing from the skull above, Harry recognized it. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “I’m not, Mark. I’m not okay at all.There are things living inside my skull.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z I stand in my corner with more conviction than ever to kill these soldiers, to avenge the blood that drips from my brother’s skull. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I ask, wondering if I need to knock some skulls together. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Teresa’s scream inside his mind was so loud it felt as if a dagger had been driven through his skull. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The skull sat where it should, and all was arranged on a metal frame. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Remora tapped his skull with his index finger. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z In November, he paid eighteen pence to a Uruguayan farmer for a piece of a colossal skull of yet another extinct mammal—the rhinolike Toxodon, with giant squirrel teeth—that had once roamed the plains. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z In my wrapped towels and sandals, I followed the aide in his skull cap, long white gown, and slippers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Mendez is a little lady with hair like midnight and a mouth that starts at one ear and wraps around her entire skull. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z They stopped in front of a tall, snow-covered building whose many windows gaped blackly, like the eye-sockets of empty skulls. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I'm glad my skull is nowhere near the arc of it. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z For a split second, he seemed to hang suspended beneath the shining skull, and then he fell slowly backward, like a great rag doll, over the battlements and out of sight. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z I want to feel it spatter across my face when my axe bites deep into a Bolton skull. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A gray skull sat on his neck, its jaws flapping, laughing. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Twelve massive black stones were arranged on the hilltop in the same pattern, resembling the features of a human skull. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Half senseless, they were hurled towards the doorway, with his angry words ringing in their skulls. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z An uncomfortable tingle started at the base of Jason’s skull - the same feeling he got when a huge electrical storm was about to break. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z She wore a silver circlet on her head like a princess’s tiara, which didn’t match her skull earrings or her Death to Barbie T-shirt showing a little Barbie doll with an arrow through its head. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Then an SS officer with a skull and crossbones on his hat and a loaded pistol on his belt would come closer and watch me work. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Fractured skull, no murder weapon, no motive, no leads. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I blink, and two men appear at his left and right, just as still as he is, but their faces are featureless—skin-covered skulls. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z “I am seeing skulls. And you. I see your face every time I look into the flames. The danger that I warned you of grows very close now.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Angry Arms of Death gives me a knuckle-tap and says “stay real,” which is ironic in ways that neither him nor his skulls can grasp. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The other patients are sitting by their beds with dinner trays and mine is there too but I don’t want it with the way my skull is raging. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z We go inside after that and decorate our sugar skulls with glitter Fina brought and brightly colored icing that Mom helps us mix up. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z The slaves were all tattooed: a mask of blue feathers, a lightning bolt that ran from jaw to brow, a coin upon the cheek, a leopard’s spots, a skull, a jug. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They made the earth and sky from him, the sea from his blood, the earth from his body, the heavens from his skull. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z His arms thrust closed, hands clasping each side of Deborah’s head, palms to her jaw, fingers spread from the back of her skull to the bridge of her nose. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I say, but the master-at-arms seems to be ignoring me now, so I direct the question to the skull with a rose in its mouth, figuring it might be the mellowest one. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Her skull ached with the impact, but Celaena’s cry of pain was cut short as she opened her eyes to the dark and saw what appeared. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z If the offender was at Mother’s end of the table, out of Dad’s reach, he’d signal her to administer the skull punishment. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z The skull was the size of a house, with its jaw hanging loosely open, easily wide enough to swim inside—not that I wanted to. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Its eyes narrowed in anger, and a booming voice echoed in my skull. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The mask was a human skull; from it, the great antlers rose in cruel curves. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z She examines him fiercely, running her hands over his dusty body, feeling the shape of his skull with her fingertips, turning him around to lift his sweater and check his spine, his smooth undamaged skin. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z He pressed my cheek so my skull was against his palm; and he said, “Prince, he don’t care today. There ain’t any measuring happening today. No samples.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She pressed the heels of her hands to her skull and pushed inward, as though to keep her head from flying apart. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z A skull dislodged from the pile and clattered to the floor, where it rolled to a stop at my feet and stared up at me. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Flames rippled beneath his skin, illuminating his skull. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z There was an anchor, an hourglass surmounted by a skull, a chameleon, a bull, a beehive...Thirty-six altogether, and she couldn’t even guess what they meant. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Nothing in her life was sufficiently interesting or shameful to merit hiding; no one knew about the squirrel’s skull beneath her bed, but no one wanted to know. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He made the inside of poor Billy’s skull echo with balderdash. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The skulls of dead dragons looked down from its walls. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Pet nodded and walked to her, placing one hand on the base of her skull. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Atawallpa mounted a bowl atop the skull, inserted a spout between the teeth, and used it as a cup for his chicha. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Could the skulls in her vision have signified this bridge? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Then came a human trunk and a skull, which looked as if it had been beaten with a heavy metal object. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z White examined the skull and could see the hole in the back where the bullet had entered. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Oh, sure. They’ve been doing that for thousands of years. In the Tunguska campaign we captured five Tartars alive, and three of them had holes in their skulls. One of them had two.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z I come face-to-face with the empty sockets of the skull drawing on my door, an O₂ mask slung over its mouth, with the words “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here” written under it. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Holly summoned the final dribble of magic from the base of her skull. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Felicia imagines the mixture melting through Graciela’s frail scalp, penetrating the roots and bones of her skull until it eats her vicious brain like acid. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “Only that whatever made contact with his head—whether it was moving toward him or he toward it—was flat, narrow, and hard enough to fracture his skull.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He’d finally abandoned his efforts to wear long hair and had cut it all off—he was clean-shaven, right down to his skull. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Zeke glares at his brother, then puts him in a headlock and rubs his knuckles into Uriah’s skull. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Tufts of feathers sprout from the chicken’s skull, and its feet secrete a sticky liquid. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Still long enough to put deep holes through a skull, though. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The back of my skull landed on his nose like a bowling ball. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Held at either arm by a Dauntless traitor, a gun aimed at the back of his skull. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z I kind of wanted the saber-toothed cat's skull necklace, but then I decided I’d better not. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z “Look, can someone just explain what that skull thing was?” said Ron impatiently. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z She cut her hand; she twisted her ankle; she knocked her skull against a low-hanging branch and burned her leg in a boiling spring. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z African and European skulls of half a million years ago were sufficiently similar to skulls of us moderns that they are classified in our species, Homo sapiens, instead of in Homo erectus. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A split in the top of his skull, through which the bad news hissingly poured; a groove in his knees, which buckled, and suddenly Milton couldn’t keep it out any longer. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It is a bear skull, the remains of a grizzly shot by someone who visited the bus years before McCandless’s tenure. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z His eyes were open too, but the pupils had disappeared—Art saw how they’d revolved backward and now looked inward at his skull. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He could feel, somewhere deep inside him, anger and pain building, a knot of tension at the base of his skull, a tightness at the temples. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Big news from the dinosaur dig: They found a Camptosaurus skull fragment about the size of a paint chip. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Helene peers at my blurred tracks, following them, somehow, to the crypt where I stowed my pack, to the skulls piled there. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z I took my bag without a word, the beginnings of a headache rumbling at the base of my skull. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Her stringy gray hair was matted to her skull in greasy tufts, and her cheeks were raked and bleeding as if she’d been clawing herself. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I woke at noon, with a large, cottony skull, pulsing with hangover, to discover I'd missed my plane. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He and Grace leaped in the air to control a high ball, and their skulls collided with a gruesome thud. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z As it happens, the koala’s brain is so small it doesn’t even fill up its skull. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He told me tales: how he spitted Saracens upon his lance, cleaved them in twain, slashed open their skulls, to save the Holy City. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z One has a cross tattooed on his shaved skull. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z She’d fallen from a ladder at the library and cracked her skull. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The first casualty of the day was John Lewis, his skull fractured in the exact spot where he had been struck years earlier during a Freedom Ride. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Cradling her head the way Ralph had cradled the fish skull, she cried. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z His silvery-gray hair was cropped close to his skull, and icy-blue eyes watched each student enter and take a seat. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Lon searched the skull for another mark, another referent, but found nothing. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “I spent two years in a juvenile detention center for breaking my father’s arm. Both arms, actually. And his nose. He also had a fractured skull, but that probably wasn’t entirely my fault.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z He stiffened and his ears flattened to his skull. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The shape of the hill and the skull pattern of the stones both matched the illustration perfectly. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z A steel helmet swallowed half the grinning skull. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z And I understand that, for the moment, Thresh is not going to smash in my skull. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “He died a day after we went into the hospital. Contusions. Broken skull.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The lamps were not porcelain or chalkware; they had been made from the skulls of the mad, acquired from Dunning Asylum. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The word, said out loud, made Luna’s skull feel as though it was about to split in half. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The pain and the pounding inside his head were gone, but when he sat up he had to move slowly to avoid jarring the soreness inside his skull. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I imagine it, imagine all the paintings bursting out of my skull at impact. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z There was a blinding, blooming pain right behind his eyes that was quickly spreading to the outer edges of his skull. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z Her scalp was ripped and torn and her forehead laid open to the skull. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She might scuff a hoof kicking someone in the skull, but otherwise she risked no real danger. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “The point of the sickle can pierce a person’s skull.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Hazel traced her fingers across the carved skulls. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z But his struggles only thrust him downward, his cries did not go upward, but rang in his own skull. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z I abhor the rainbow stripe and would prefer something along the lines of a simple skull and crossbones. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z She had a pain in her skull, right in the middle of her forehead. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z His eyes had grown larger and settled deep into his skull. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z A dull, steady ache persists on the right side of his head, emanating from deep inside his skull. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The doctor drilled a hole in Nikki’s skull and put in a small tube—no thicker than a strand of spaghetti—to drain excess fluid from her brain to lower the pressure. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Pa fights the urge to scream as he hears the sound of a hammer crack the skull next to him, smashing into it. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z This, too, would be suppressed, and the skull had already been buried. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z He removed the green cap and revealed thick black hair plastered to his skull with Vaseline in the style of the 1920s. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But the skulls were here as well, the skulls were all around him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Put a bullet in my skull. There will be messengers sprinting to your wife and your watch captain’s door before I hit the ground.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z She must have been reading the skull too, as quick to rise to a challenge as he was. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z ‘I will prepare a room for you at the palace in case you do not survive. Perhaps your chambers would look good decorated with the skulls of monks.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I felt my brain shake in my skull; I felt my stomach shake behind my ribs. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Well, phrenologists claim we can identify someone’s character and racial derivation by measuring the skull.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z There was a dark circle at the base of his skull. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He pulled out the little skull in the crystal globe from Grandpa’s desk. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z His head hurt badly again—like something rolled around loose in his skull every time he moved. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z He reached out, touching my skull gingerly, and said something encouraging, as though I were a child. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I swung again, lamming another skull, then another. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I had a jangling headache, and each footstep was sending bolts up my skull. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z In fifteen minutes flat, all that will be left of a zebra is the skull, which may yet be dragged away and gnawed down at leisure by young ones in the lair. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z He felt his old anxiety coiling at the base of his skull. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Celine was a brave French soldier in the First World War—until his skull was cracked. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “I hope all your skulls eat you in your sleep,” I tell him. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Then he backed away, keeping his face to the skull that lay grinning at the sky. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z They cut through the top of my skull so they would have easier access to my eye sockets and could move skin and bone around more accurately. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Marq Mandrake, whose pox- scarred face had a hole in one cheek where a slave’s mark had been burned away, wore a chain of golden skulls as well. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It was Cade’s own shirt he used to press against the cut, which was just at the base of my skull behind my right ear. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Her skull hit the windshield and jerked her neck to the side with a freak snap. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Her hands were claws, every muscle rigid, a scream caught in her skull, scouring out all thought. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Adam said, “You heard the doctor say her skull was cracked. How do you know she can remember?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, I brought sugar skulls we can decorate, too!” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Finally they reached an archway carved in the shape of human skulls—or maybe they were human skulls embedded in the rock. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “A ... a thousand skulls. The earth keeps healing him.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The hard shell hits my head with a bang, as a flash of white pain explodes in my skull. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “One blow will crush a seal’s skull,” he said. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Perlstein looked, if anything, even larger than I remembered him; his skull was shinier, his eyes smaller. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Until the Mountain crushed my brother’s skull, no Domishmen had died in this War of the Five Kings,” the prince murmured softly, as Hotah pulled a blanket over him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z One was still putting its skull back on its shoulders. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z “I just want to get out of here. I’m bored out of my skull.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z It seemed that he could feel the prolonged blow of it sinking through his skull, and suddenly with an old premonition he clapped the brakes on and stopped and sat perfectly still. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The red thing bulging out of the inside of his mouth that I thought was his tongue wasn’t nothing but brain meat oozing from inside Pap’s skull. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z Two years later the Leakeys found the skull of an apelike creature who became known as Dear Boy or George. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z The skull of a ferret was fixed at its top. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Someone is splitting through the top of my head with an axe, a messy axe that won't make a clean cut through my skull. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z That was not all—Augustus Seward had been stabbed and his brother, Frederick, was unconscious from a crushed skull; brave Sergeant Robinson had endured multiple stab wounds. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z And in the shadows where the sand disappeared into darkness, she saw a heap of skulls. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z When he brought the skull to Mormont, the Old Bear lifted it in both hands and stared into the empty sockets. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z On his right hand, a silver skull ring glittered. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The pressure inside her skull had gone down and stayed down, and the doctor removed the tube from her brain. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He'd thrust the torch into the mouth of one of the larger skulls and made the shadows leap and dance on the wall behind him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z We keep getting close, and you keep hesitating, Pet’s voice interjected, driving through her skull. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Between my bad hearing and my trouble with words, I thought she’d said the top of my skull was in my tummy! Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z There he lay spent and shivering, his body bruised, his cold skull throbbing in rhythm with his heartbeat. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z He was holding a huge club—and he looked like he was ready to crack some skulls. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z He was somewhere very close to sleep when a voice spoke in his head, a pretty, feminine voice that sounded as if it came from a fairy goddess trapped in his skull. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z When I see Cary bash a shambler's skull in with the butt of his pistol I realize it's time for another tactic. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z If I am lucky, it might crack his skull. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Volantene honors were most common, little coins no bigger than a penny with a crown on one side and a skull on the other. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The light was dim and came from gas jets hidden behind skulls mounted on the walls. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Their hair was cut close to the skull; their shirt cuffs were turned neatly back on their forearms; their white scarves hung in snowy rectangles from their hip pockets. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z He offered Chappell thirty-six dollars to cleanse the bones and skull and return to him a fully articulated skeleton. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z His head ached like a storm had erupted inside his skull. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Her brown eyes, brooding deep in her skull, looked out on an ugly world with philosophic sorrow. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly one woman shrieked, and I felt my skull would split open. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z And in one far corner, alongside a font bubbling an eerie mist, was perched a human skull! Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Not even a crumb of crust left in that skull. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He hadn’t slept well either; the residual anxiety had pinged inside his skull. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Ma's hands reach over to stroke my skull and pat Starry's cheek. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The moment her head snapped and bounced up and fell back again, her brain, like a mass of Jell-O, slid inside her skull. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Across their backs they bore round wicker shields covered with hides and boiled leather, displaying painted images of snakes and spiders, severed heads, bloody hammers, broken skulls, and demons. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z His eyes gleamed red and his ears lay flat back on his skull. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z “What about the skulls you tested? What about the Shadows around the ivory figurine?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The other bullet went through the back of her head, entering below the skull at the top of her neck. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Across the water, the Crux rode huge and golden on the waves, sea spray sparkling along her gilded figurehead—a wooden woman holding a diamond the size of a cow skull. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The skulls have tiny little mustaches, and so do the men. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z I spin around to remove the shambler’s head but its skull explodes, the monster falling back to the ground. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Look up into the sky: you are looking at the inside of Ymir’s skull. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z The guard was about thirty, with greasy black hair slicked sharply against his skull and a shadow of stubble around his chin. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z A local phrenologist was in one corner measuring a girl’s skull and preparing to read her character from his findings. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z One day she kicked at a cracked sheep’s skull with the side of a bare foot and sent it bouncing over the edge of the hill. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It's not bleeding, but I can see the dent in her skull and I know that she's a goner. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z And that word in her mind, echoing from one side of her skull to the other, Mama, mama, mama, over and over and over again, like the cry of a faraway bird. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z His skull felt like it had just come out of the microwave. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The suit guy ended up spending four days in intensive care with all kinds of injuries, including a fractured skull. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z At every step, white signs with black skulls looked down on us. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z If those fingers closed around her skull, she was history, helmet or not, assuming she managed to find a helmet. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The two began shouting at each other again, over the sound of bombs exploding in Frank’s skull. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Doctors would fill the gaps in my skull from previous operations. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z The thick glass exploded on his skull, sending a spray of shiny pink-tinted shards throughout the room. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He twisted the silver skull ring on his finger, the same way Reyna did with her silver ring when she was thinking. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z On the after deck the mast had hit the steersman a slant blow bashing the skull in, knocking him overside, as the brave soul fled the body, like a diver. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Whatever happens I will not let them chloroform me, even if I have to crack a couple of their skulls. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z His sword is pointed at the place where the boy’s spine meets his skull. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The hair was shaved well back from the missing portion of skull. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I groan before I can help myself, feeling as if a great chunk of stone has been driven into my skull. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “She won’t be talking for quite a while. Besides, her skull is cracked, and God knows what that will do to her. What I’m getting at is, should I bring the sheriff into it?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Only thumb and forefinger remained on the hand that held the reins; the other fingers had been sheared off catching a wildling's axe that would otherwise have split his skull. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The wet brain matter slowed the ball’s speed, absorbing enough of its energy to prevent it from exiting the other side of the skull through the president’s face. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In his investigations among fossil skulls, her colleague Oliver Payne had discovered that around thirty thousand years ago a great increase had taken place in the number of shadow particles associated with human remains. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The captain of guards had never seen a larger skull. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Because of the way her head snapped back against the ground, the way it had snapped back up again and down one more time, her brain had been shaken inside her skull. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z And this canal went on and on, through cities that would have rattled like beetles in a dry skull if you shook them. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z And Lee carefully packed the bones, femurs, and tibias really straight, skull in the middle, with pelvis and clavicle surrounding it and ribs curving on either side. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Miig wore his hair shaved to the skull except down the middle and had a moustache that only grew on the left side of his top lip. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The bullies would pick me up, spin me in circles, put their finger down on my skull, and say, “I want to go there.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z How they torture their captives, behead them, or crack their skulls with axes so as not to waste their precious ammunition. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They were laying babies on the ground and crushing their skulls with their boots. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Bran saw a bear skull and a wolf skull, half a dozen human skulls and near as many giants. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z My skull was going to split open if I didn’t lash out, if I didn’t channel that energy somehow. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Shadows in the shape of skulls, skulls that turned to mist, bodies locked together in lust, writhing and rolling and clawing. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But what hurt more than the bumps on his skull was his injured pride. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z The clouds were black and moved fast, but where the sun broke in, the rays wriggled through my skull. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He wore a black T-shirt, black jeans, and a new silver ring shaped like a skull. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Their large round shields were made of skins stretched over woven wicker and painted with skulls. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The beginnings of an idea scratched at the back of his skull, an itch, the barest inkling. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The menu above the bar is illustrated with a skull and crossbones, and it’s striking to see the skull smiling. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I swallow hard, noticing the skull tattoo on the guy’s arm. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z He was so tired, his brain felt like someone had gone in and stapled it to his skull in a dozen places. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Only his brain moved, wet and heavy against the contours of his skull, favoring curvatures of bone and concave niches. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “I thought I was going to lose”—hic—“con...consciousness. Please tell me that really happened just now” “All I can say is, no matter what, I’m cracking my skull open tomorrow,” Seanie said. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The witch swings the statue again and hits above my right ear, smashing my skull. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z The skull seemed to grimace in defiance, daring a stranger to despoil the royal treasures. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z It was the face that haunted him most; surrounded by a nimbus of fire, hair blazing like straw, the dead flesh melting away and sloughing off its skull to reveal the gleam of bone beneath. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He had more hair than you would think a single skull could hold. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z She stripped off her many thrift-store rings and is wearing the charm necklace from her dad instead of the usual chunky array of crucifixes and silver skulls. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Pong tried to smile back at his rescuer, but his teeth were chattering so hard that it made his entire skull shake. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z A heartbeat later another bush killed Quenton, driving an axe into the base of his skull. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He wouldn’t tell her now, he wouldn’t have her collapsing on the tiles and cracking her skull. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z And the theatrical skull sings, “Storm fronts that linger upon the horizon; white plastic places where every thought dies in; swabbies and cocktails and parrots' bright wings; these are a few of his least-favorite things.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The knob of the handle was made of the skull of a stoat, oiled and polished like ivory, and Kay loved it. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He tossed the skull back into the mouth of the tree, where it landed with a puff of fine ash. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He looked heartbreakingly handsome in a black skull hoodie and jeans, his hair all tousled from the wind. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z There are grinning skulls; a ghoulish, blue-skinned woman with glowing yellow eyes; a caricature of a great, horned animal; illegible graffiti signatures; advertisements for local bands and theater productions. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z A great skull would roll to view, like a snowball; they shouted! The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z I run inside just to grab the sugar skull I made last night. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z He sucked a nipple that was not there, slavered on the neck of a girl he had barely spoken to, foamed over a sin that took place in the uncontrolled cosmos beneath his skull. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “In the old days, they would take people up to the top of the mountains. To the high places. They would smash the back of their skulls with a rock. For Czernobog.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z I wince at the sound of the wood against his skull. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “Stunned? By you lot, you mean? But why — ?” Comprehension dawned suddenly on Bagman’s round, shiny face; he looked up at the skull, down at Winky, and then at Mr. Crouch. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z A policeman swings his club and shatters someone’s skull. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He looks like a marionette, with glass eyes and a smile painted over his skin-wrapped skull. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z All skulls grinned, but this one seemed happier than most. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In a constant rhythm so loud it resonates in my skull. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z There was a tooth, a bit of skull. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z To identify the murder weapon, the lawmen needed to extract the bullet that was apparently lodged in Anna’s skull. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Her hair is growing out—it’s still short, but I can’t see her skull anymore. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z He felt as if there was something atrophied between his eyes, where the base of the nose grew into the skull. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Blue-furred, orange-eyed, red-fanged, a tiger snarled upon his left biceps; a spitting snake, coiled around a dagger, slithered down his arm; and elsewhere skulls gleamed, a tombstone loomed, a chrysanthemum flourished. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z I could feel the braid in my hair, an uncomfortable ridge along the back of my skull. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Bison can run for hours at thirty miles per hour and use their massive, horned skulls like battering rams. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In sculpture after sculpture, ears of maize spring like thoughts from the skulls of supernatural beings. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Behind her is a bald man with sharp planes in his skull. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Only five nights ago he had contemplated smashing her skull in with a cobblestone; but that was of no impor-tance. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Peeta looks down at me, gone, mad, flashing back into the land of the hijacked, his gun raised over me, descending to crush my skull. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z I could hear Tyson, but it was more like I was hearing vibrations inside my skull, not the regular sounds. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z On a scarlet- draped platform an orator of the Inner Party, a small lean man with disproportionately long arms and a large, bald skull over which a few lank locks straggled, was haranguing the crowd. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Horace showed the sheriff three fragments of the deceased’s skull that had lodged in the tissue of his brain. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Lon gave her the skull, feeling her open palms slide over the backs of his hands, and pointed to the cavity in the temporal bone. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Lying broken on the hot church floor, dark blood spilling from his skull like a secret. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A spider headache spreads out in fine branches over my skull. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d sometimes been locked in the crypt overnight with only the skulls of dead monks for company, and he couldn’t even count the number of times he’d been called stupid or worthless or worse. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z So he wanted to kill it: to crush the skull into the feathers and snap the bones of the wings. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I look at him, wondering how someone so gentle could ever swing a bat into someone else’s skull. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Something suddenly fell out of the hole at the base of the skull—fell through her fingers and rang as it hit the floor, and she nearly dropped the skull in alarm. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The force of the blow knocked me into the wall, and I banged my head, the pain of the collision spreading through my skull like ripples on a pond. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z On the desk, inside a crystal sphere with a flat bottom, was an eerie replica of a human skull no bigger than her thumb. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z She cries over his cut swollen lips and cringes as she touches the blood dripping from his skull. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A primate skull is hard and tough, and the bone plates are knitted together. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z One tiny skull has my name on it. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z Just before he wakes, he feels a splintering at the back of his skull. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z They argued briefly about whether the T. rex skull could be considered art. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z She glanced down at his hands, and Nico realized he was twisting his silver skull ring - the last gift Bianca had given him. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z On either side of them, in niches carved from the stone, skulls looked down on them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The thin shoulders were hunched forward so as to make a cavity of the chest, the scraggy neck seemed to be bending double under the weight of the skull. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Then the ache was like a pounding inside her skull. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z More than once I imagine sinking my rusty sickles into his skull. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z It was something wrapped in a long somber cloak with a grinning skull, and bones for hands. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Not to mention my back and the hard cap of my skull. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Years later, when Rahel returned to the river, it greeted her with a ghastly skull’s smile, with holes where teeth had been, and a limp hand raised from a hospital bed. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I caught the top of a chain, and the skulls and hooks jangled beneath me. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The charred meat and bones under the damp ash might have been anonymous save for the shapes of the skulls. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z From the jolt in my arm, I thought I’d cracked her skull. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I breathed deeply, stretched, and bent down again, ignoring the thumping under my skull. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z I felt a fire start at the ends of my hair and burn its way through my skull. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z By the time we saw the Wolf Wall in the Fossil Lab and its four hundred wolf skulls, I was growing weary. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z It was strikingly obvious, and somehow too big to fit into his mind—like trying to cram the actual Cusp into his own small skull. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The doctors were also concerned that replacing the piece of skull stored in my tummy might cause an infection. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Their knuckles were white on the sides of the chariot, their teeth chattering like windup Halloween skulls. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The hat seemed to isolate Luster’s skull, in the beholder’s eye as a spotlight would, in all its individual planes and angles. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z They wore gold rings in their leather ears and in the wind their sparse and ratty hair twisted about on their skulls. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z “The crack of his skull vibrating up the hammer, up your arm, into the hole in your chest where your heart is supposed to be.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The force of the blow chipped a divot as large as a silver dollar from the Sherpa’s skull, knocked him unconscious, and sent him into cardiopulmonary arrest. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z His foot hit Thomas in the jaw; a lance of pain shot through his whole skull. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z And then I imagine I can feel the X rays and the gamma rays, feel them pinging on my eyelids, shooting through my skull, making the palms of my hands tingle like they've fallen asleep. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It splits his skull, and blood sprays out past his dangling brains, yet he doesn’t fall. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to shove an ice pick through my eyes and give myself a transorbital lobotomy, scrape Diego from the inside of my skull. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z His long ragged black cloak was made of batwings, fastened at the throat with a mole skull. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z What I couldn’t get out of my skull was the thought of their rough, grimy hands all over my clean sneaks. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z What exactly it was that shattered Grandpa’s skull changed every time I heard the story. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It was behind Stef’s hairline, at the base of her skull. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Now a crack on the skull, I begin to lose consciousness. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I grind the heels of my hands into my eyes like I can push my tears back into my skull. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z His hair lay close to his skull in gray twists, and his chin tilted slightly heavenward. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z They advanced around the corner again, shaking the Clankers, and the noise echoed off the rocky walls, grossly magnified, so that the inside of Harry’s skull seemed to vibrate with the din. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Their brains were filled with quiet joy from implants in their skulls. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The loud buzz drilled into Finn’s skull and made his teeth ache. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Then you slice down toward at a spot just beneath the skull. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I then realize that the voice isn’t coming from his mouth, but from one of the skulls inked on his arm. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Her hair was white and so thin you could see the pink of her skull shining through. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The secretary wears a splint on his broken jaw, which, luckily, deflects the knife away from the jugular vein, but it does little to protect the rest of his skull. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z “She is gone. Burned and devoured. Weeds grow through her broken skull.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It was as if a hundred razors were inside my skull, clattering and rattling around. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z His face went crimson inside its helm, where nobody could see it, and he felt a warm glow under the straw fillet which padded his skull. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Bone plates move and grow over time, with the skull eventually forming a thick, solid layer of protection around the brain. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Harry’s eyes dropped to the objects clutched in Ron and Hermione’s arms: great curved fangs, torn, he now realized, from the skull of a dead basilisk. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Rock that looked enough like bones to spawn a myth, with a boulder here and there in the rough shape of a skull? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He reached for a rock and slammed it hard into the poor animal’s skull. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The unanswered questions wheeled around her as she pressed her hands to her head to stop the throbbing in her skull. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “Whoever he was, I hope he doesn’t mind having his nose cartilage lodged in the back of his skull. Cliff can be territorial.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z When I tried it on, the coat hanger dug into the back of my skull, so I used a Kotex sanitary napkin for padding. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z A snow bear crashed through the brush, huge and skeletal, half its head sloughed away to reveal the skull beneath. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Harry could see the floating skull reflected twice in her enormous, glassy eyes. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Although Johnny told him three times about those eight shillings, he was not sure whether the idea had penetrated the wild Irishman’s thick skull or not. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Indians who had once used hatchets to bare the skulls of white men drifted over from Buffalo Bill’s compound, as did Annie Oakley and assorted Cossacks, Hussars, Lancers, and members of the U.S. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Toxic and hazardous wastes were stored in another: corner of the dump, where you could find old batteries, oil drums, paint cans, and bottles with skulls and crossbones. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z In contact with the skull, an army helmet transmitted images directly into the brain. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The back of my skull bounced off the sidewalk’s rocky concrete. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z So his textbook spread failed to penetrate the skull, in spite of the Teflon-coated load. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z It was a skull, and there were hundreds of them. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Ordinarily you would whip through a skull with an electric bone saw, but you can’t use a bone saw in Level 4. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama was humming a song, and the tune was cracking my skull open like a nut. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Around her neck were skulls, and her many hands held knives, and swords, and severed heads. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z He set the fish skull on a plate. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “No coffins, no piled skulls in the corners; I don’t even think we have cobwebs . . . what a disappointment this must be for you,” he continued slyly. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z His hair’s been cut and shaved tight to his skull by a barber—no more nappy braids. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z On the southwest, he found an open gate flanked by a pair of animal skulls on high poles: a bear to one side, a ram to the other. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z At a bear feast, the bear’s skull was ribboned and set out on a good red cloth, spoken to, honored. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z He pressed the razor to the bone and guided it through the hair, describing an arc across the top of the deceased’s skull literally from ear to ear. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Matt felt a strange tightening in his chest when he saw the skull staring back at him from Fidelito s skinny body. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Take a seat in his bathroom and you found yourself facing the faintly smirking skull of Doris, a prehistoric creodont. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z A few strands of white hair spring absurdly from its spotted skull. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z As for Olmsted, Burnham was struck by the slightness of his frame, which seemed structurally insufficient to support so massive a skull. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “At the occipital bone, the posterior base of my skull,” Rachael said. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z He memorized the brown down on her soft skull. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z When we reach a pile of skulls blocking the passage ahead, he moves a few aside and helps us through the opening. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Then he turns the rifle around and smashes its butt into Kim’s skull. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They had been at die pilot all this time, almost two months, nibbling and chewing and all that remained was the not quite cleaned skull and when he looked up it wobbled loosely. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Over the lintel was affixed the ancient dragon’s skull, its browning sockets gazing down the corridor. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The ground was broken by rifts and pits of naked black peat, where water lay and sharp white stones, some as big as a pigeon’s, some as a rabbit’s skull, glimmered in the moonlight. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It looked as if he were trying to crush his own skull. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Jagged slivers of pain shot up from my ribs to my skull. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Graham also brought to the courtroom the wart Holmes had removed from Benjamin Pitezel’s corpse and a wooden box containing Pitezel’s skull. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Grover’s lunch hit the skeleton and knocked his skull clean off his shoulders. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z My headache, always there, scraped its dull teeth against the inside of my skull. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The Runner pushed himself up into a sitting position, his black hair matted to his skull with sweat. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z He only lights his cigarette and, two seconds later, a bullet rips through the front of his skull and he crumples in a heap. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “My skull is staying touching this floor,” said the child. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z For he shaved our skull, and cleansed our wound and bound it neat with bandages stolen from the home of an unsuspecting leader of the mob, ha! Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z To rehearse and refine the procedure, Dr. Atkinson and Dr. Emmett took human skulls home at night and practiced cutting them up. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z The word “nightingale” kaboomed in my skull but it just wouldn't come out. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Mr. Diggory shouted, and the smoky skull vanished in a wisp of smoke. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z It was evidently the part of Brown’s skull that the undertaker had kept, in 1921, and given to bureau agents for analysis. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z All the intelligence she had gathered on the Black Tips came back to her in a sickening rush—Oomen, Geels’ shambling enforcer, the one who could crush skulls with his bare hands. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Her hair floats loosely from her skull and waves above her in the tide. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he saw Rosaleen and started to rub the bald space on his head with such agitation I thought he might rub down to the skull bone. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He rose and stood tottering in that cold autistic dark with his arms outheld for balance while the vestibular calculations in his skull cranked out their reckonings. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The old skull crumbled to dust as the giant hefted the tree like a baseball bat. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The rider's helm was made from the broken skull of a giant, and all up and down his arms bearclaws had been sewn to his boiled leather. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Only his skull resisted; and the resistance increased the pain to a shrill whine. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z These were obviously questions that had never penetrated her skull. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Towering a foot over his skull was an elaborate headdress in the shape of a bird of prey, complete with swirling plumage. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The back of his head had departed from his skull. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z A man with a scratched-up face and a swollen lower lip and bloody bald spots across his skull where his hair had been torn out in clumps met them at the door. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z She will break open my skull just to see the inner workings of my brain; I will die here, and that will he the merciful thing. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z As pressure builds inside the skull, motor and mental skills deteriorate with alarming speed—typically within a few hours or less— and often without the victim even noticing the change. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The White Shell Twins pulled until a head emerged from the back of Nathan’s skull. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Her hair is matted and bloodied, pressed into the hollow of her crushed skull. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Sometimes the horses would try to rear back their heads and smash their riders with the tops of their massive skulls. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Four exposition workers lost their lives, two from fractured skulls, two electrocuted. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Seth asked, pointing to the flat-bottomed globe with the thumb-sized skull on Grandpa’s desk. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z But what really drove Bernabe out of his skull was Carolina’s way of talking. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A golden skull atop a pole, and Homeless Harry Strickland in his place. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The darkness gets bigger; it’s pushing at the edges of my skull, clouding mv vision. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Her sneakers are painted, one with an impossibly small chequerboard of a thousand colors, the other with yellow happy faces alternating with black skulls. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z "The worst cases cause mutation. Some might grow boils or develop black lumps, but others suffer from warped bones and muscles—even their skulls change shape, and new limbs grow where they shouldn't." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z My thoughts whizzed around my skull so near the speed of light that I could never catch them. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The riders, too, were like nothing she had ever seen before: ethereal men and women with pale visages, their cheekbones so sharply sculpted that she could see their skulls through translucent skin. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The dog snarls, and I can almost feel the sound vibrating in my skull. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z My mind saw a clean and pressed uniform, with a nest of wicked snakes sprouting out of his neck, or a skull with hollow black eyes, smoking a cigarette. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Her rectum burned as she sat in her train seat, her brain felt light and unmoored inside her skull, and a cold sweat beaded on her forehead. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Meeting his gaze, I thought I could see the skull lamp fixtures reflected in his dark irises as well. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Sierra watched in awe as the skeleton’s painted skull turned ever so slightly as if to regard her and Robbie. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z One tunnel was walled with human bones, its roof supported by columns of skulls. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In other words, if everyone wanted to play Hamlet at once, they couldn’t, because there aren’t enough skulls! Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z He tossed his drakon meat into a hanging pot that seemed to be made from an old monster skull, then picked up a ladle and began to stir. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The person in that painting with the steel bones and legions in his skull would have saved Jesse. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The ball ripped through his chestnut-colored hair, cut the skin, penetrated the skull, and because of the angle of Lincoln’s head at the moment of impact, made a diagonal tunnel through Lincoln’s brain. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Tried to take Claire hostage, but she chomped him with her backmouth, so he grabbed me instead. I tried to fight, but he knocked me upside the skull with his gun.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “You could slip down and crack your skull wide open.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes. He won the right to knock in my skull with a sledge.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Both ears had diamond studs, but the left one also had a silver skull that hung almost to his shoulder. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Good morning, precious,” Xan said, letting her hand slide along the curve of the girl’s skull, winding her fingers in the long black curls. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Two tunnel entrances, one for each direction of traffic, stared down at him like eye sockets of a giant skull. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The surgical team took life-size pictures of my face and X-rays of my skull so they could match the two together and see where bone and skin would have to be cut and moved. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Carlos places six sugar skulls on top of my headstone. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z And when Mini angled the compact to reflect the portraits of screaming women, the paintings revealed something very different: skulls. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z By the time I removed my crampons to walk the last hundred yards to the tents, the sun felt like it was boring a hole through the crown of my skull. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z I’m banged up and bloody and someone seems to be hammering on my left temple from inside my skull. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z When I return to Westeros, it will not be as a skull atop a pole. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It floats in a clear liquid inside the skull, never in the light. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z We stopped in front of the heavy wooden door, whose stained-glass fanlight formed a grinning skull and crossbones. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “We didn’t do that!” said Harry, gesturing up at the skull. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Then lightning struck again, shooting up my leg and into my skull, sending me deep into the fog. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z And if it’s a pirate map, it should also have a skull and crossbones on it somewhere.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z She called the Osage chief, and Anna’s skull was retrieved and, at a quiet ceremony, interred with her other remains. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “That one was a juvenile,” he said, pointing to a skull smaller than the rest. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “The skull...danger in your path, my dear....” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The soldier takes her gun out of her holster and, with sightless eyes, fires a bullet into the back of the council member’s skull. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z A bullet through my skull in the town square, if I'm fortunate enough to go that quickly. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Two days later, the major was a shambler with a bullet in his skull and I had my first harvest at ten years old. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Two bullets were retrieved from Whitehorn’s skull, and they appeared to have come from a .32-caliber pistol—the same kind of weapon that had been suspected in Anna’s murder. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The stag horns turned to crimson streaks, the skull mask ran like molten iron. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z The sun is shining on me through the window, and my brain pounds against my skull. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The skull piece was also removed from its storage place. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “Get your crew in shape before I start cracking skulls.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Now the precise outlines of her skull show through the skin of her face, presaging death. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “The hammer smashes the enemy’s skull; the machete cuts them. When you have to protect yourself, make whatever you have into weapons,” Met Bong shares with us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “If I didn’t shoot it in the sky, it would be in his skull right now,” Jacqui says. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Do you want to take that risk? it asked, its voice soft inside her skull. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Shadow’s temples felt as if they had been reattached to the rest of his skull with roofing nails, and his vision was blurred. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z She can almost hear the machinery of her father’s mind churning inside his skull. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Her skull was cracked too, and the teeth on the left side were missing. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z His throat tightened in horror as his eyes traveled up its limbless body to its head and found that where he’d expected a reptilian skull was something else. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Archie wanted to discuss the Eocene skull he was holding, but all the others could talk about was the game. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z A raven was perched atop one, pulling at the tatters of burned flesh that clung to its blackened skull. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Mine isn’t as good as the one in here,” Baba would say, gently rapping Neel’s skull with his knuckles. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z The single lightbulb overhead throbs, hurts his eyes, burns into his skull. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z She made no sound as she wept, as she bent to kiss Felicia’s eyes, her forehead, her swollen, hairless skull. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z And when he and Linda went to bed at night they clung together wordlessly, waiting for unseen fatal blows to split open their skulls. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z My head felt as though someone had surgically implanted a jackhammer into my skull and left it running on high. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Deep bronze booms and silver chiming pounded through his skull, a maddening cacophony of noise that grew ever louder until it seemed as if his head would explode. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z His frilled collar and skull had been badly burned, as if the guy had decided to wash his hair with a blowtorch. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I wished she would go; she was like a shadow standing there, watching me, appraising me with her hollow eyes, set in that dead skull's face. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “See that skull and crossbones? That’s the universal symbol for not good.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z These screenshots also clearly showed the skull pattern of the stones on the hilltop. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Often the baby has a deeply cloven skull. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The skull rested on a bed of black felt, grinning. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The wounds of the face was superficial; the real injury was a depressed fracture of the skull, extending right up through the motor area. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z He knew it would not last long; the eyes would begin to cloud and turn glassy green, then gray, sinking back in the skull. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z My brain rattles against the walls of my skull. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Teresa shouted in Thomas’s mind—it sent a quick snap of pain shooting through his skull. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z “It’s probably not the best thing in the world to do, punching a hydro in the skull.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z All these ideas are whirling around my brain, building up the pressure until my skull starts to crumble. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z The words echoed in my ears and pounded in my skull as images of Eddie and Brer Fox came to mind. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Quickly, these balls begin taking the shape of skulls. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He scratched his ears and his skull and his long nose. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z But the pole was padded with batting and canvas, and it stopped Azareen’s skull from being staved in. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I find Abuela sitting motionless on her wicker swing, wearing a worn bathing suit, her hair stuck haphazardly to her skull, her feet strangely lacerated. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The riders were as pale as the fairy woman on the frontispiece, and their faces were hollow skulls, their mouths gaping open. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z My fingers find tender lumps on my skull but no blood. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Could you crush that beloved skull with a rock? The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Here is an example: a British anthropologist named Dr. Louis S. B. Leakey is displaying some fossil bones—a foot, part of a hand, some jaws, and skull fragments. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She focused her mind on the central skull and asked: What sort of person did this skull belong to, and why did they have those holes made in it? The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Or Danny who screamed out of his skull at soccer games. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z I needed to get out of Bethlehem, out of my skin, my skull, and the ghost of my family. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Once they were kept in containers marked with skull and crossbones; the infrequent occasions of their use were marked with utmost care that they should come in contact with the target and with nothing else. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The skull belonged to a megatherium, a mammoth version of a sloth. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “Sure. Fractured skull. Concussion, the lot. Even Crow Face might notice it. That’s if I ever get up there.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The other skulls had a sameness to them, though several had been cracked and splintered by the blows that had slain them, and one had filed, pointed teeth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The echo of the final hammer on his skull died slowly away into the black cavern where Faber waited for the echoes to subside. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s darkness in my head, right at the back of my skull. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Dadi rested her head against mine as if she could beam love through her skull into mine. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z He crumpled the scrap and stuffed it into the hole with the skull. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z She stared at the bearded men in their alpaca skull caps and silkolene coats and wondered what made their eyes so small and fierce. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Flashes of ugly flags with skulls and bones, swords slashing at people’s throats, and long knives cutting out our hearts edge their way into my consciousness. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, all sorts of things, really. Those skulls I got interested in just now, when I saw them there. I shouldn’t think anyone would want that done. It’s horrible.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The padded headpiece felt tight and heavy on her skull, and it was strange seeing the world through a mesh screen. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z I have lusted in my heart to break a man’s skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people’s back yards. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z An additional series of meteorites rocket at their skulls at a billion miles per hour. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Like an animal inside a skull looking out the eyeholes. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The other skulls all groan, and I smile. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z For the first time she could see a man’s head naked of its skull. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z The god struggled, flinging the dead aside, breaking off ribs and skulls, but the skeletons kept coming, pinning the god’s arms. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z On her torso, there was a white skull that matched the Marvel Punisher icon on the cover. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z He said Baby wouldn’t die but that her skull was fractured. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z There was always an ache in her skull, a pounding. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z It would have left a pretty nasty gash on Rowan’s head had it connected, but Rowan ducked and the thing hit the door, leaving a substantial dent in the wood instead of in Rowan’s skull. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The skull of old Major, now clean of flesh, had been disinterred from the orchard and set up on a stump at the foot of the flagstaff, beside the gun. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Each shelf was partitioned off into square sections, and in each section rested a skull. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Blood spilled from his skull like a secret. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Obara Sand plucked the skull from him and held it at arm’s length. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He was struck down by a ten-ton cement truck and died instantly of a massive skull fracture on the Norvelt road early in the morning on June 24. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Then the family was on him again, resurrected by the sound of Ben’s skull meeting the wall. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Femurs, shinbones, skulls—the dismembered fossils of many hundreds of people, heaped up in no apparent order. crack. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Consider a small pin driven into your skull, the agony of the piercing. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z From ten feet away, I hear the bird’s skull crack as blood sprays everywhere on the wall, splattering onto Kim’s feet. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was so cold that it made his teeth and skull ache. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Then, before the day was done, a crossbowman sworn to the Flints turned up in the stables with a broken skull. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z This one is closer than the last one—I feel it hovering over my skull. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The group also extracted DNA from fourteen Botocudo skulls in the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Is that before or after your elderly Slavic Charles Atlas crushes my skull with one blow?” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z But when he saw who stood there, his skull seemed to contract, squeezing his brain in shock. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z I saw a sign with a picture of a head with a little devil sitting in the brain, inside the skull, with these like energy bolts coming out of his mouth. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Conversation would be nice, but the true reward would be the ability to haggle fluently and get my next two-headed skull for the same price as a normal one. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Her eyes blazed bright in her skull and followed me as I moved around the room, and when the doctor and Madam talked, she listened in right close. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z As he stood over the body, someone caught him from behind with an axe, but his helm turned the Mow, and his skull was left ringing when it might have been split. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “It’s just caulking,” I tell it, and that makes all the other skulls begin to laugh. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z And beside the sagebush there would be a naked, eyeless skull, a few picked bones, a spot of black dried blood and a few rags of golden fur. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z My brain registered more details, like the red skull on the black T-shirt. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Yet they found bones too, the skulls of the unburied dead, bleached and broken. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z That morning, the T. rex and triceratops skulls arrived at the Grand Regency. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z She bent down to me, her skull’s face close, her dark eyes searching mine. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I had been cultivating a headache for the last few hours—the kind of headache that felt like it was going to pop my eyes right out of my skull—and caffeine usually helped. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Her legs are apart, I lie between them, my head on her stomach, her pubic bone under the base of my skull, her thighs on either side of me. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The backpack slammed into the woman’s skull face and she stumbled backwards. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Down he tumbled, rolling this way and that until he arrived at a plateau of skulls. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z And someone was flinging people’s skulls out an upstairs window—more likely a turkey carcass or a ham bone. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Two SS officers with skulls on their caps hammered on Mrs. Pohler’s door, called her a stinking Jew, slapped her face, and removed the linen key from her shaking hands. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Then he was licking his bruised knuckles and looking at the bare stick, while the skull lay in two pieces, its grin now six feet across. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The most recent were also the smallest; a matched pair no bigger than mastiff's skulls, and oddly misshapen, all that remained of the last two hatchlings bom on Dragonstone. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z In December the exposition experienced its first death: a man named Mueller at the Mines Building, dead of a fractured skull. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Cracked skull,” said Madam Pomfrey, bustling up and pushing him back against his pillows. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z "No. Thresh broke her skull with a rock," I say. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z After his hands slipped loose, his knees hit muddy ruts and there was screaming and the sound of bone crushing, hollow white skull bone beaten to bayonet edges by the jungle rain. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z My father calmed me somewhat by saying that the skull was part of the witch doctor’s medicines. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z His skull rang in the silence, and he watched shock-still as the storm of hot dirt and rocks and branches and weeds rained down upon him and then wasted itself to a veil of grit. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “You may have a skull full of brains, but, again, Albert...no sense,” Keisha says. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z And the man did, with the blank look of someone whose skull had just been cracked open and exposed to freezing air. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Meggie saw the dogs' broad skulls pushing through the grass and heard them snuffling. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z As I rearrange the crypt's skulls, the hot air shifts like a bear waking from hibernation. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z It was only when you got close enough that you could see that their faces were like skulls and their eyes were filled with menace. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Part of her scalp slipped off, revealing a perfectly round hole in the back of her skull. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Big eyes, a shrunken skull, with rainbow designs. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z If anyone had told her a hundred years ago that humans would be taking the fertile out of fertilizer, she would have told them to get some air holes drilled in their skull. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The waxy skin was stretched so tightly over the bones of his face, it looked like a skull. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z They finally discovered a tumor, awkwardly located at the base of his skull, and declared it inoperable. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The walls were constructed of bones and skulls - thousands upon thousands, cemented together. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z They watch for anyone with tattoos, especially gangsters who have skulls inked around their ankles—one skull, police say, for every person they have killed. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z There had also been a very strange custom, whose origin was unknown, of marching every Sunday morning past a boar’s skull which was nailed to a post in the garden. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z With way too much clarity, Mark recalled the sound of the boy beating his skull against the inside of the door. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Close to him was the skull of a mammoth, polished and brown, and a hairy ochre cloak, being worn by a small woman with a deformed left hand. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z And now, Luna felt as though she was in a storm of memories, jumbling around inside her skull. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z He had a terrible scar across the top of his skull. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I iced it for days, but it was super-stubborn, with roots so deep, they felt like they reached my skull. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Queenie’s hair was scraped back severely from her forehead flat against her skull and wound into a tight bun at the nape of her neck. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Pain echoes through my skull like drum beats. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z The sloping-shouldered figure of Alecto Carrow was standing before him, and even as Harry raised his wand, she pressed a stubby forefinger to the skull and snake branded on her forearm. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z How dark and sombre they were in that white skull’s face of hers, how malevolent, how full of hatred. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z One of the warriors turned, his face changing momentarily into a skull. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z She pokes my exposed nerves, exploring whether she’ll take up residence in my skull. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Its skull grinned beneath an expressionless gray face. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z I listen in silence as he tells the room that the cause of death was head trauma, her skull was fractured in several places. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The line made a scraping sound somewhere deep in my skull and I felt the skin dragging across the bone to cinch together. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z He suffered a cracked skull from being hit with an iron pipe, a broken leg, and many cuts and bruises. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z On his deathbed, Ser Aegor Rivers had famously commanded his men to boil the flesh from his skull, dip it in gold, and carry it before them when they crossed the sea to retake Westeros. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z My face was burning up like Ghost Rider’s fiery skull, but Elle kept a straight face as she turned back to study the photo in front of her. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z He was later hospitalized with a fractured skull. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z You could see the lines of his skull. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Harry lay there, staring up at the patch of light on the ceiling, his recently mended skull not hurting, precisely, but feeling slightly tender underneath all the bandaging. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z As Werfel’s eyes disappeared under fish skulls, Skardebek squealed in annoyance. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z With a horrific crack, it connected with the back of her skull. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The Skull: “The skull of the dead man is in his grove.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Virtually no evidence had been preserved from the various crime scenes, but in the case of Anna, the undertaker had secretly kept one object: her skull. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Papa said the skull had a hatchet cut on the forehead.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Once fair hair dangled from its skinless skull. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Niceron explains how to produce anamorphic shapes: shapes like the skull in Holbein’s Ambassadors, which takes form as a skull only if you view it at a sharp angle to the picture’s surface. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He informed my parents that my brain was swelling and that he would need to remove part of my skull to give it space to expand. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I notice the planes of his skull, showing through his shaved hair, and the jagged path his crooked nose carves down his face. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “Yes,” I say, leaving Dane to contemplate how much worse a golf club in his skull might feel than my hand in his groin. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z The large glass window was decorated with colorful skulls, marigolds, and dancing skeletons. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z The local sawbone doctor had patched me up as best he could, and, unfamiliar with the remarkable thickness of my skull, expressed serious doubts as to whether or not I would ever wake. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I wanted to know exactly how they removed my skull. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He pulled me down, and as I hit the ground, I felt my brain shaking in my skull again and my deafness disappeared. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z But what really sent a shiver down my back was the single black eye socket in the center of its skull. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Then, while I lean over the sink, my sister arcs the razor from the nape of my skull to the top of my forehead, again and again, one row at a time. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z So much of the prince’s flesh had sloughed away that he could see the skull beneath. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I hear the crack as my skull makes contact, and for a minute the room spins. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “That’s one thing you can learn from this skull. There are two more.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Her shrill voice—and her tiny feet beating on my skull—made me wince. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The rotten tiles broke with a noise of disaster and the man barely had time to let out a cry of terror as he cracked his skull and was killed outright on the cement floor. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z My heart shoots into my throat, my stomach plunges, and then, with a jerk that rattles my skull, I’m not falling anymore. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z A head with stringy gray hair slicked back tight to his skull. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Only it wasn’t a rock—it was someone’s skull. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z A knit skull cap covers his head and forehead. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z She said, “When you were small, you grew affectionate for a dragon’s skull. Do you recall?” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I looked up at the chains hanging from the ceiling, dangling the skulls of his enemies on hooks. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z They feel like a vise tightening against my skull the further I push. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z A patriarch with a long white beard, black skull cap and toothless gums presided over the vats with a big forked wooden stick. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z There was many a Tang man with a cracked skull or a broken arm or rib because he had crossed over the invisible boundary line between our town and the rest of the demon city. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I stared in horror at all the skulls—hundreds of them—and the banner of Poseidon. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Smaller than a pack of gum, Mind’s Eye attaches to the base of the skull and inserts microfilaments into the brain. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z An ache reaches up through the base of his skull. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z His very first blow took a stable-lad from Fox- wood on the skull and stretched him lifeless in the mud. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z I strain against the restraints as she rests the Cog on the base of my skull. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The spinning rod flew from my grip and I pitched backward, expecting at any moment to crack my skull against the planks of the transom. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z I looked at Slant, whose eyes rolled toward mine; and we both saw the skull of the other. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z One of the fingers grazed the side of his head...any closer and it would have cracked his skull. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z I reach over and pick it up, but as I hand it back to him, I see scribbles on a sheet of notebook paper on his desk, skulls and bones and guns all over it. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z His hair, cropped close to his skull in the Abnegation style, does not help this impression. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z All I got was a faint hum in the base of my skull. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “Holmes, Moriarty, they both look the same with the flesh scorched off their skulls.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z He visualized the contours of Emo’s skull; the GI haircut exposed thin bone at the temples, bone that would flex slightly before it gave way under the thrust of the steel edge. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Behind the eyeholes of his yellowed skull Rattleshirt's stare was malignant, but he yielded grudgingly. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The skull moved subtly under the features, the angle of her forehead tilting back, her chin becoming more defined, her jaw stronger. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Olmsted looked worn and gray, except for his eyes, which gleamed beneath his bald skull like marbles of lapis. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The shock of his freezing hand on my flushed skin made me flinch, but it was the explosion of pain at the base of my skull that made me cry out. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Hazel noticed the silver skull ring on his finger, then the strange fabric of his suit. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Jon remembered Old Nan's tales of the savage folk who drank blood from human skulls. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Her head is split in half and a pink-gray sludge oozes from the fracture in her skull and drips down onto my face, and she stinks of formaldehyde and rotting meat. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Then he raised up the stone, and saw that it had crushed Herbor’s skull. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The jaws of a drakon skull encircled the trunk, as if the oak tree were the dead monster’s tongue. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The word man hit like a pile of rocks falling on George’s skull. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z They ignore me, or hurry past, because maybe they can see the steel spike of terror piercing my skull, driving all the way down into my soul. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z "Let me have a look at that skull." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The next day he awoke with dragons fighting in his skull. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In all of these respects, Jomon skulls differ from those of modern Japanese and are most similar to those of modem Ainu, while Yayoi skulls most resemble those of modern Japanese. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z If a huge skull and crossbones were suspended above the insecticide department the customer might at least enter it with the respect normally accorded death-dealing materials. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z They cracked my skull and broke four ribs and one leg. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z —All but one, there, too long to hide, a dark face like a skull, eyes shut and sunken, a mat of long, fibrous hair. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z His head hurt every time he took a step; shock waves of a foot against the ground registered on skull drums. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “My eyes are not very clear, and the ice is dirty, but it seems to me that there is a hole in the top of the skull. Am I right?” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “I’ve made an incision across the top of his head. His skull is exposed. It isn’t pretty.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z She hit him hard because I could hear her knuckles striking the bone of his skull and her exclamation when it hurt her. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In the sixth grade there was a boy in my class who had a steel plate in his skull and was always complaining how test answers could never get through to him. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Once in bed, I tossed and turned, worried out of my skull about Carl. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z A man of gain and sin: They found him in the millpond With his skull bashed in. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z The ground at his feet split open and skeletons crawled forth—dead Romans with missing hands and caved-in skulls, cracked ribs, and jaws unhinged. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I feel like he could tear my skin from my skull. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Her blood was hot—she reached out and came up with a rock that she slammed into the boy’s skull. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He was trying to breathe shallowly, so that the blood would not beat so in his skull. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I watched her, fascinated, horrified; a queer ecstatic smile was on her lips making her older than ever, making her skull’s face vivid and real. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z A bronze knocker in the form of a skull hung in its center. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z And the three pounds of gray matter he carried around in his skull served him well in the classroom. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The top of her skull is caved in. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I turn around, and two soldiers are behind us, skulls grinning on their hats. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z By about half a million years ago, human fossils had diverged from older Homo erectus skeletons in their enlarged, rounder, and less angular skulls. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z One of his eyes was burnt shut and his hair was but a nitty wig of ash upon his blackened skull. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z An idea began tickling at the base of Percy’s skull. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Someone advanced from the sea of faces, someone tall and gaunt dressed in deep black, whose prominent cheek-bones and great hollow eyes gave her a skull’s face, parchment-white, set on a skeleton’s frame. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Improvements in anesthetics, and new drills and bone saws that allowed for precision cutting of the skull, made it possible. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z I called these men "skulls" and they were freaks for violence. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z When he drew the skull and wrote “ASSASSIN,” John perked up a little. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z Behind the bleached skull, the eyes of the Horned King flamed, as he raised a crimson-stained arm. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Even her hair, which had been as black as a crow’s, grew colorless in scruffy patches on her skull. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I could see everything she said as if it were a wall painting inside the cave of my own skull. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I felt a hard hand upon my skull and moved away. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Everywhere we went, dead Confederate sailors stared at us, their ghostly bearded feces shimmering over their skulls. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Her mind was fuzzy and dark, vibrating against her skull in a frenzy, like it was trying to escape. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z And sometimes that expense winds up being a shattered skull. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z He walked slowly into the middle of the clearing and looked steadily at the skull that gleamed as white as ever the conch had done and seemed to jeer at him cynically. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Kabuo’s features were smooth and angular; his hair had been cropped close to his skull in a manner that made its musculature prominent. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z It was said that he loved the sound of his club cracking open a skull like a pumpkin, but this was not true. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z A few inches away sits a skull the size of a watermelon, thick ivory fangs jutting from its bleached maxillae. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Dunbar missed completely and sailed by her over the bed to the floor, landing on his skull with a soggy, crunching thud that knocked him cold. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The connective tissue in his face is dissolving, and his face appears to hang from the underlying bone, as if the face is detaching itself from the skull. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He slipped inside the tent, leaving Griff to contemplate the gilded skull of his old friend. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z There’s a robot, a skull with a bow on its head, a kid kicking a soccer ball, an owl, and more. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z One was warded by a ring of skulls mounted on rusted iron spears, so he dared not enter, but he had explored the second for as long as he could. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “How about I crack your skull open like a robin’s egg?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z She edged away from the skull and backed into a second, larger than the first. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z My brain feels too big for my skull, my eyes hurt, and I may throw up. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z His dented top hat did nothing to hide the deformed length of his skull, or his long, hairy ears. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z She did not understand. . . . three heads has the dragon . . . the ghost chorus yammered inside her skull with never a lip moving, never a breath stirring the still blue air. . . . mother of dragons . . . child of storm . A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I feel the sickening impact of the skull against my shoe. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z On the screen, Blade slices a vampire right through from his groin up to his skull. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Nathan turned around and stared at the gray being, the size of Seed Collector, that had been extracted from the back of his skull. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Tariq wasn’t like some of the other boys, whose hair concealed cone-shaped skulls and unsightly lumps. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z But weirdo me, I was bom with too much grease inside my skull, and it got all thick and muddy and disgusting, and it only mucked up the works. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Autopsies showed Fannie died of a crushed skull and suffered three gunshots, two to the side of the head and one in her back. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z But his flashing spear never missed its stroke and the dreadful sound of cracking skulls was heard and the floor flowed with blood. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z His skull is no longer with the rest of the skeleton in the Museum's collection, and its location is a mystery. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He sat back in his leather aviator jacket, his black T-shirt and jeans, that wicked silver skull ring on his finger, and the Stygian sword at his side. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He grabbed a large wrench and swung it as hard as he could, trying to crack open Gong’s skull. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z His fingers close against my head like he's squeezing my skull. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He was breathing steadily, but two knocks on the skull in two days couldn’t have been good for him. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z So quietly that even old Ork cannot hear me, I tiptoe out of the ring and hide behind a fat stone image of a god with a skull in his lap and a blacksmith’s apron. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z The doctors would need to drill her head to relieve the pressure building in her skull. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Keep telling yourself that,” says the dice-eyed skull, “but when you wake up with a few less toes, you’ll know it’s been tasting you.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Flying free and the sickening thud of my skull on soil. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z “There are some things that not even the captain can control,” says the skull with the rose. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z You could put five rounds in the skull of a bull ape and he’d still have time to eat you before his brain realized he was dead. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z In blind fear I let the stick fly, feeling it crack against a boy’s skull. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z A huge raised dais stood at the far end of the room, atop which rested an obsidian throne inlaid with silver and ivory skulls. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z One kid wearing the same exact costume as mine, long white skull face oozing fake red blood, high-fived me as we passed each other on the stairs. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z Her dark hair was pulled flat against her skull into a knot in back of her head. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The broken giant’s skull remained a broken giant’s skull, yellowed and cracked, grinning its stained and savage grin. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He would never watch another fist fight without fearing he was going to faint and crack his skull open on the pavement or suffer a fatal heart attack or cerebral hemorrhage. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Bud looked up, his black eyes hard in the skull face. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z James play-knocked her skull then shrugged his backpack to the ground. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z My father cringed a little for fear he would touch the place where my skull had been removed, but it was fine. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Then Roy felt himself swaying and spinning as a brilliant gout of fireworks erupted inside his skull. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Clearly,” I heard Miss Volker say from where the victim’s head would be, “there can be no doubt that the main cause of death is a massive skull fracture.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Nor is that a sheep's skull in the ashes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They discuss which tools to use to crack his skull, to slice his throat. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They settle on the teeth of a skull. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Violently, he jerked his head down, then left and right, as if he were trying to knock something loose from his skull. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z “You enter through the wall. It’s full of skulls and stuff and it’s under the lake, so the light’s all green.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Another skull loomed ahead, the biggest monster of all, but Arya did not even slow. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z There are many valleys in the mountains of the mind, convolutions that greatly increase the surface area available in the cerebral cortex for information storage in a skull of limited size. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The doctors were no longer concerned about the pressure inside her skull. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I stared hard at the ballooning pink reflection, believing this might be the last thing I would look upon before my eyes were chewed out of my skull. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He had expected something horrible—a skull, perhaps, or a bundle of snakes. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z I can only feel the break in my skull and the pain winging through my brain. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z His afro is gone now, shaved to a black shadow on his perfect skull. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z Little sugar skulls are lined up in rows. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z And just like that, she could barely remember the word at all—and was only aware of a pulsing sensation in her skull, like the ticking of a clock. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “Did you find out more about those skulls?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t be a jíbara,” she scolded, rapping her knuckles on my skull, as if to waken the intelligence she said was there. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “Did you see the candlelight reflecting off her skull?” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “The skull is large enough, no doubt,” said the prince. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The sound of the rain got louder, pounding on the leaves, splashing into the ruts; it splattered on his head, and the sound echoed inside his skull. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He visualized each piece of his own skull, fingering each curve, each hollow, testing its thickness for a final thin membrane worn thin by time and the witchery of dead ash and mushroomed bullets. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z They are actual human skulls whose faces have been “reconstituted” in tinted plaster, with pieces of seashell for the eyes. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z In his hand was a walking stick strong enough to stave in a skull. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z I hear more laughter, and for a moment think that there are others hiding in the room—but the laughter is from the skull faces of his tattoos. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z She’ll just give you another thump on the skull and send you flying. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Luna pressed her hands to her forehead, trying to keep her skull from flying apart. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Harry asked Dumbledore, looking up at the green skull with its serpent’s tongue glinting evilly above them. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z I see my own eyes set into his skull, and I think of my reflection in the fear landscape, how terrified I was, watching his skin spread over mine like a rash. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z I know that these blows to the skull can cause longterm health issues of a very serious nature. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z As Shin and his classmates watched in silence, lumps puffed up on her skull. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “Something flat, narrow, and hard enough to fracture his skull. Like the gunnel of a boat, Horace? Is that possible?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z She looked at me with her white skull’s face and her dark eyes. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The rather modern-looking human skulls from Africa around 100,000 years ago have been taken to support the former view, with the leap occurring specifically in Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I thought his skull earring looked stupid with the beaded rattail he had cultivated—like he was trying too hard to be a pirate or something. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z After the hoisting of the flag, the animals were required to file past the skull in a reverent manner before entering the barn. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z He called himself a survivalist and liked to wear camouflage and collect skulls of animals he found in the woods behind our house or on the side of the road. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z It began to dissolve, leaving only scraps of bone, meat, hide, and a new drakon skull whose open jaws ringed the oak tree. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The man’s thick black hair looks lacquered to his skull. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Like the incense at church my soul rose toward the dome of my skull—and then broke through. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z A spray of dark red leaves sprouted from his skull, and grey mushrooms spotted his brow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z William swung his mighty fist and a fiend’s skull caved in on itself. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Sleeping, Kevan thought... until he blinked and saw the deep red gash in the old man’s spotted skull and the blood pooled beneath his head, staining the pages of his book. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The side effects —crippling headaches, dizziness, seizures, vomiting—lasted until the body naturally refilled the skull with spinal fluid, which usually took two to three months. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z On my left was a high gray cobblestone wall with a mammoth dragon skull mounted on it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Though the world became foggy around the edges, she yanked Damaris from its skull. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Harry didn’t understand why, but the only possible cause was the sudden appearance of the skull, which had now risen high enough to illuminate the entire wood like some grisly neon sign. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Its gristly nose was subsiding into its skull hole. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z When I walked through the back door, the first thing I saw was Mother grasping a butter knife, which she was using to pry my father’s ears from his skull. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The figure twisted in its dim bed with a movement of remembrance, but froze as the pain shot through its skull. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z When Dr. Z called me, he reported that the pressure in Nikki’s skull was dropping, and that was a good sign, but, he cautioned, she was still in a coma. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I could see the bones and veins; I could see the exact structure of her skull. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Deep inside the skull of every one of us there is something like the brain of a crocodile. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Once she tried to play a trick on some of the dead Scholars, by switching around the coins in their skulls so they were with the wrong daemons. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He, remembered Rhaegar's infant son, the red ruin of his skull, and the way the king had turned away, as he had turned away in Darry's audience hall not so long ago. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z What he had seen was the perfectly preserved skull of a young rhinoceros, which had been washed out by recent heavy rains. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z A fisherman had caught a human torso in his net, and three weeks after that, a little girl foraging for crayfish had found a skull picked clean by the fish. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He held the scourging tail in one claw, while gripped in the other was his war standard, topped by the ferret skull with the addition of the tattered tapestry square depicting Martin the Warrior. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z One stayed, his cap with the skull grinning down at us. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The dum-dum-dum at the back of my head, like something was inside of me knocking against my skull, trying to break out. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Scavenger birds peck at the oozing matter that leaks from my crushed skull. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Then he realized that it was a colossal skull, comprised of what looked like emerald stars, with a serpent protruding from its mouth like a tongue. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z He made his way back to the Tower of the Hand with a thousand armored feet marching through his skull. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Lining the deck were zombies in gray uniforms— dead soldiers with shimmering faces that only partially covered their skulls, like the ghouls I’d seen in the Underworld guarding Hades’s palace. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z "I suspected, especially after your fight at the dockyard. Your skull was cracked and your arm broken, yet within a matter of hours your injuries were less than bruises." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z I am struggling to see him as a man capable of beating a woman, of crushing her skull. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Lund had noted the skulls’ heavy brows, which are rare in Native Americans. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The sun was reddening the western sky and painting scarlet shadows on the golden skulls atop their spears when they took their leave of the captain-general’s tent. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It seemed bony and cold, like an empty skull. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Then a door he had not seen before swung open, and an old woman emerged, a shriveled thing in a dark red tokar fringed with tiny golden skulls. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z There is another possible precedent: moralizing portraits, the descendants of pictures of St. Jerome, that show their subjects holding or pointing to skulls, much as Revere has the teapot in his hand. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe everybody’s skull is knobby and weird underneath their hair, but on Jasper Jr. it made him look even meaner. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z I get into the hallway—my hand is almost on the door handle—when I feel the bottle hit the back of my skull. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “Better put it back,” said Roger uneasily, and Lyra upturned the skull and dropped the disk back into its immemorial resting place before returning the skull to the shelf. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He noted the tiny silver necklace of skulls that circled her neck, her charm bracelet of heads and hands that jangled, like tiny bells, when she moved. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z His silvery-gray hair was cropped close to his skull, and icy-blue eyes watched each student enter and take a seat. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “After I dressed. I put my bayonet through his skull like you said.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Aiming for the weak point at the base of the skull, she let the troll have a long burst of the concentrated ion ray. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Next came Rattleshirt in clattering armor made of bones and boiled leather, his helm a giant’s skull. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z So the doctors in Pakistan removed a piece of my skull to allow the brain to expand. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Or a weapon to bash his skull in. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Bright candy skulls, family picnics on the graves, a plate set for each individual guest, a candle for the soul. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I fetched a pack of ice from the chest freezer on the patio, but when the pack touched his leg he screamed—a back-arching, eye-popping scream that made my brain claw at my skull. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Watch you don’t slip down and crack your skull open or fracture a arm.’” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z James play-knocked her skull then shrugged his backpack to the ground. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “Behold, my temple to the Earthshaker, built from the skulls of all those I’ve killed in his name! Your skull shall join them!” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The skulls were huge, the jaws shaped like monster bird beaks. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Perrington crossed his arms—arms that looked capable of crushing her skull. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He, too, noticed the oddity that there was no exit wound in the front of Anna’s skull, which meant that the bullet had lodged inside her head. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Beneath the skull he saw another, smaller, the jaw broken off. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Pain lanced through his skull, and a sudden wave of exhaustion washed over him, a heavy, dragging thing that was like a two-ton blanket draped over his shoulders. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The skulls were warped, like candles left too near the fire, so that none held the same shape. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z When the Howards arrived by special charter train from Del Monte, they were told that their son was dead, his skull and spine crushed. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It put out his left eye and then his right, and when he was blind in the dark it pecked at his brow, driving its terrible sharp beak deep into his skull. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They cleaned the flesh from Alice’s skull and carefully polished her teeth, then covered her body with canvas. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The small skull crushed, and then the mouse stiffened and quit squirming. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z A poxie launched himself at us, mouth frothing and a wicked meat cleaver raised high for some skull splitting. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Somehow my mom found the strength to cradle my little sister’s burned skull in her arms. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z She runs her hands over me, feeling the shape of my skull with her fingertips, my arms and legs. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z It sent its stealthy, suckered tentacles inching along the insides of his skull, hoovering the knolls and dells of his memory, dislodging old sentences, whisking them off the tip of his tongue. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z My head was so big that little Indian skulls orbited around it. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z He died on the A10, his skull crushed beneath the wheels of an articulated lorry. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The roundness in his face had thinned out, sinking his eyes further into his skull. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z He recognized another, Steel Liu, a skull cracker from the Red Python gang. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Oh, no—I was on the edge of panic when a familiar voice sounded inside my skull: If the front gets through, the rest will drag. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Two weeks after her beating, she endured dizzy spells and a pounding in her skull. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He probably was scared he'd fractured my skull or something when I hit the floor. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z If those Andruss brothers had punched a hole in the aquarium of my skull, I might have flooded out the entire powwow. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z "And the worms are crawling in and out of the dead man's skull, in and out of his ear holes, his nose holes, his mouth holes, in and out of all his holes." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z White skulls had colorful sequin eyes and pretty designs on their faces. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z She was peering in, behind him, and on her face was a great and stark fear; it made her look stripped down to nothing, like a skull with gaping holes as eyes. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z His hand stopped in mid-air, at the point where the metal of the gun had met the bone of the skull; stopped, frozen, still, as though again about to lift and descend. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z |
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