eye-socket's

Updated: May 11, 2025

Its great spread of horns is very imposing, and the eyes which are usually sleepy, cynically contemptuous and indifferent, or sullenly cruel, are for once full of life, anger, passion, and excitement. He stands there quivering and stamping, blowing great clouds of smoke from his mouth and nose: With his nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim. And with circles of red for his eye-socket's rim.

Sir Hugh Charles Clifford - In Court and Kampong: Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula