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I thought many times of going back to see Faith Stanton but even the changeless changes and woodland jewels, claiming socketless eyes, reflect only images of the mind.

From Voices from the Past by Bartlett, Paul Alexander

It never has the conical steel socket that the Mand�ya lance sometimes has, is always straight edged, and is set into the shaft in identically the same manner as the socketless Mand�ya weapon.

From The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir by Garvan, John M.

Among the many was a charcoal likeness of a great horned owl, whose light ashy plumage and socketless eyes gave it a most ghastly appearance.

From Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. XLII., May 1851 by Various