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  • “Khadd” = cheek from the eye-orbit to the place where the beard grows; also applied to the side of a rough highland, the side-planks of a litter, etc. etc.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Then he lifted a single glass, inserted it in his eye-orbit and stood gazing at the boy who had advanced to welcome him.

    Boy Scouts in a Submarine : or, Searching an Ocean Floor 1909

  • Sollas, [117] has made us acquainted with the surprising shape of the eye-orbit, of the nose, and of the whole upper part of the face.

    Evolution in Modern Thought Gustav Schwalbe 1880

  • He said that the roof of the skull of Pithecanthropus (Figure 2.335, 3) must have belonged to an ape, because so pronounced an orbital stricture (the horizontal constriction between the outer edge of the eye-orbit and the temples) is not found in any human being.

    The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

  • "Khadd" = cheek from the eye-orbit to the place where the beard grows; also applied to the side of a rough highland, the side-planks of a litter, etc. etc.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

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