keystones
Example Sentences
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“And I would never tell her this, but I felt as if my hands were gripping the eyestones of a skull.”
From New York Times • Dec. 20, 2011
"What a funny woman, to be always carrying eyestones about, and putting them in people's eyes!" said Jeannie.
From A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life. by Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train)
Not many people, in any sense of the word, go about provided with eyestones against the chance cinders that may worry others.
From A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life. by Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train)
I always keep three eyestones in my purse.
From A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life. by Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train)
Most eyestones are a calcareous deposit, found in the shell of the common European crawfish.
From A Busy Year at the Old Squire's by Stephens, C. A. (Charles Asbury)
