"...to make the very hair stand perched on its native habitual roost, where so long it had lain recumbent." (Joseph Fox, preface to "Santa Maria, or The Mysterious Pregnancy")
'Have hit tack on cranium.' ("Charlie Chan on Broadway")
'My reckless wanderings among words of unlimitable English language often fail to penetrate sort of skulls plentiful round here.' * 'Relinquish the firearms, Mr Jennison, or I am forced to make fatal insertion in vital organ belonging to you.' ("The House Without A Key")