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Sentences ending with hollow

He soon struck wood that sounded hollow. [5]
Well, he sit there long--long, and his face get gray and his cheeks all hollow. [11]
The head of the column had already descended into the hollow. [2]
It is true that Lincoln did work the latter part of one winter in a little stillhouse, up at the head of a hollow. [7]
There was an old story of one having perished here in the winter of '86, and his body having been found in the spring,--whence its common name of "Dead-Man's Hollow. [6]
Then the Couenhovens, of Sleepy Hollow. [4]
At a certain moment the foreman was in a kind of hollow. [11]
Don't you find it all pretty hollow? [11]
Nicholas did not hear his own cry nor feel that he was galloping, nor see the borzois, nor the ground over which he went: he saw only the wolf, who, increasing her speed, bounded on in the same direction along the hollow. [2]
It seems empty and hollow. [11]

Short sentences using hollow

It's all hollow. [11]

More example sentences with the word hollow in them

How thin and worn he was, and how large the eyes were in the face grown hollow with suffering! [11]
He stood just within the hollow of a cavern so immense that he had no conception of its real dimensions. [13]
The wind, blowing with heavy, steady blast into his face, sickened him with enduring, sweet odor, and filled his ears with a hollow, rushing roar. [13]
It was Joan who, at last, as dawn drew up, discovered the hollow between two great rocks where the treasure lay. [11]
The last camp which we fell back upon was in a hollow near the village of Florida, where I was born--in Monroe County. [5]
To form her we must have light and more light--and when it is lighter here the voice of the people down there, which does not sound very delightful up in this hollow space, will diminish somewhat also. [10]
The hollow, brittle wax broke into a thousand fragments, and Cambyses sank back on to his bed with a groan. [10]
A more hollow, wasted, pallid aspect I have not beheld. [14]
But his laugh was the only one left in the village: it fell upon a hollow and mournful vacancy and emptiness. [5]
And then there was darkness and blindness, and he stood once more before his congregation, speaking words that sounded hollow, hearing responses that mocked him, stared at by accusing eyes that knew him for a hypocrite. [4]
I knew the warrior's secret now; I knew the hollow vanity of his rusty trumpery, and despised his asinine complacency. [5]
At last it ventured out,--showing at intervals, like the boat rising on the billow, sinking into the hollow, and climbing again into notice. [6]
In this way two cavalry regiments galloped through the Semenovsk hollow and as soon as they reached the top of the incline turned round and galloped full speed back again. [2]
When Heinz again turned to Biberli he said in a hollow tone: "If the earth should swallow up Nuremberg tonight it would not surprise me. [10]
Or would she turn coldly away like all the hollow world? [5]
Are there not trout in the streams, gum exuding from the spruce, sugar in the maples, honey in the hollow trees, fur on the sables, warmth in hickory logs? [4]
The fruit of trees is a gift from Nature, and all that she brings forth has some good in it; but what you offer to the world is hollow and poisonous. [10]
Sometimes he climbed tree, and again he sent me to the upper branches, whence I surveyed a sea of tree-tops waving in the wind, and looked onward to where a green velvet hollow lay nestling on the western side of a saddle-backed ridge. [9]
Three miles below town the ferryboat stopped at the mouth of a woody hollow and tied up. [5]
Cease to come to these annual orgies in this hollow modern mockery--the surplusage of raiment. [5]
But at last, to their great joy, it led downwards in a steep descent, with overhanging banks over which the footpaths led; and the clustered houses of the village peeped from the woody hollow below. [12]
I don't want to shut out the mystery of the stars and the awful hollow that holds them. [6]
The wind began to moan in hollow murmurs, as the sun went down carrying glad day elsewhere; and a train of dull clouds coming up against it, menaced thunder and lightning. [12]
Georg stood opposite to her, held out his hand as if beseeching aid, and murmured in a hollow tone: "Cast forth to death and despair! [10]
When Andreas came to her side and pointed to the centurion, saying that without him he would never have succeeded in saving her beloved, she heard it only as a hollow murmur, without any consciousness of its meaning. [10]
Country-life is apt to be dull; but when it once gets going, it beats the city hollow, because it gives its whole mind to what it is about. [6]
They had come to a long piece of corduroy-road, and the horse's hoofs struck rumbling hollow sounds from the floor of cedar logs. [11]
It was not this time difficult to find me, for when she sought me we were fighting with the Blemmyes in the green hollow that leads from the mountain to the sea. [10]
As soon as they had descended into that hollow, the smoke of the guns and musketry on the fleches grew so dense that it covered the whole approach on that side of it. [2]
You see down there where the rows of hay are lying in the hollow, there's the bridge. [2]
How much truth there was in it all I will not pretend to say, but I seem to remember stamping over every rock that sounded hollow, to question if it were not the roof of what was once Basil's Cave. [6]
A moment, and there came across the valley from the other side, stealing deep sweetness from the hollow rocks, the answer of the bird which had heard her master's call. [11]
Mr Codlin on the other hand, cursed his fate, and all the hollow things of earth (but Punch especially), and limped along with the theatre on his back, a prey to the bitterest chagrin. [12]
He saw over the mist that in a hollow between two hills near the village of Pratzen, the Russian columns, their bayonets glittering, were moving continuously in one direction toward the valley and disappearing one after another into the mist. [2]
The chin of the little man with beardless face and hollow cheeks had even begun to tremble, and this was usually the precursor of an outburst of sudden wrath which sometimes overpowered him to such a degree that he committed acts which he afterwards regretted. [10]
They then crossed the hollow to Semenovsk, where the soldiers were dragging away the last logs from the huts and barns. [2]
When I reached the hollow there were the two of them fighting with a man in the water, the ice jangling as they shifted their feet. [9]
Mattingley could hear the hollow sound of the sentinels' steps under the archway of the Vier Prison. [11]
When they reached the group of paupers they rested upon a woman with deadly pale, hollow cheeks, pressing a pitifully emaciated infant to her dry breast, and her eyes swiftly filled with tears. [10]
The voice of the great Macedonian sounded hollow and unearthly, but what he said had interested the emperor deeply and raised his spirits. [10]
He tapped on the glass lightly, and a large, gray, hairy spider came forth from the hollow of a funnel-like web. [6]
Behind the hut the dark shapes of the two wagons with their horses beside them were discernible, and in the hollow the dying campfire gleamed red. [2]
The physician in the Arabian Nights made his patient play at ball with a bat, the hollow handle of which contained drugs of marvellous efficacy. [6]
We soon find that the beaver is a hollow cast of the skull, with all its irregular bumps and depressions. [6]
Once during the term Cynthia had held some of them--in the hollow of her hand, and had incurred the severe displeasure of Miss Sadler by refusing to tell what she knew of certain mischief-makers. [9]
Now the boat swung round and round, and dipped towards the hollow of a whirlpool. [11]
His temples were sunken, his cheeks hollow, and his face was full of those shadows which lend a sort of tragedy to even the humblest and least distinguished countenance. [11]
When you reach Succoth, if the people have gone before your coming, you will find in the hollow sycamore before Amminadab's house a letter which will tell you whither they have turned their steps. [10]
A single tear stole down his hollow cheek. [6]
It is a steam ram, built so as to sacrifice nearly all capacity for carrying to those of speed and strength, so as to be able to split any vessel having hollow enough in her to carry supplies for a voyage of any distance. [7]
And you were standin' with your back to the shinin' pewters, and the great jug of ale with the white napkin behind you; the light o' the fire wavin' on your face, and your look lost in the deep hollow o' the chimney. [11]
Each bore a staff decorated with roses, lilies, and green branches, and many carried censers in the form of a golden arm with incense in the hollow of the hand, to be burnt before the king. [10]
There was no sound of any kind to emphasize the dead stillness, except the occasional hollow barking of a dog in the distance and the fainter answer of a further dog. [5]
Poor old Uncle Silas, he looked more like a dead person than a live one, his eyes was so hollow and he looked so thin and so mournful. [5]
And at the signal shot..." "The hollow is impassable--there's a swamp there," said the esaul. [2]
It's a hollow sham, this pantheism, I said; being "one with Nature" is all humbug: I should like to see somebody. [4]
Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden. [5]
In the twilight saddled horses could be seen, and Cossacks and hussars who had rigged up rough shelters in the glade and were kindling glowing fires in a hollow of the forest where the French could not see the smoke. [2]
Upon those hollow rocks the bellow of the storms was like the rumbling of the wheels of a million gun-carriages; and yet high overhead there were only the bright sun and faint drops of rain falling like mystic pearls. [11]
Where John Cecil Rhodes sleeps on that high plateau of convex hollow stone, with the great natural pillars standing round like sentinels, and all the rugged unfinished hills tumbling away to an unpeopled silence, he came that time to rest his sorrowing soul. [11]
With the drugs prescribed are numbers, according to which they are weighed with weights and measured with hollow measures, and accompanying the prescriptions are noted the pious axioms to be repeated by the physician, while compounding and giving them to the patient. [10]
Turning at the platform, he said in a strange, hollow voice: "At the mine--an accident. [11]
The Emperor was pale, his cheeks sunken and his eyes hollow, but the charm, the mildness of his features, was all the greater. [2]
At Sillery, west of the town, there was a hollow in the cliffs, up which men, secretly conveyed above the town by water, could climb. [11]
The little hut of the lime-burner was beyond in a hollow, and behind that again was a lean-to, like a small shed or stable. [11]
The fresh color of his cheeks and lips had yielded to a livid pallor, and his mouth quivered painfully as he asked in a low, hollow tone, "Louis dead, really dead? [10]
This "odious relic of an effete civilization," as they called it, has long been superseded by oblong hollow receptacles, one of which is allotted to each twelve persons. [6]
The young moose now had ceased its struggles, and came forward to the dead bull with that hollow sound of mourning peculiar to its kind. [11]
But there was no mirth in her laughter--it was hollow and nervous. [11]
He would only need to hollow it out and put in the electric light. [5]
Just behind him, near to the Indian, was a great log, which, if loosened by a slight impulse, must fall into the hollow where the foreman stood. [11]
That he was naturally of a very wan and pallid aspect, however, his hollow cheeks, sharp features, and sunken eyes, no less than a certain look of patient endurance, sufficiently testified. [12]
Their awful, deep-cut mouths were sternly closed over the long hollow fangs which rested their roots against the swollen poison-gland, where the venom had been hoarding up ever since the last stroke had emptied it. [6]
He held him more upright, to be sure, and his countenance was less pale and hollow than it had been; but nevermore might he be a strong man. [10]
Everything that surrounds me is so hollow, so insipid, so contemptible--what I hear is so small. [10]
He would have married her, but her life lay in the hollow of her hand, and the hand was a hand to open and shut according as the soul willed. [11]
The grave was made beneath a tall pine-tree upon the hill-top of Sleepy Hollow, where lie the bodies of his friends Thoreau and Hawthorne, the upturned sod being concealed by strewings of pine boughs. [6]
He heard the loud echo of his feet upon that hollow plateau of rock, with convex skin of stone laid upon convex skin, and then suddenly the solid rock which gave no echo under his tread, where Rhodes lies buried. [11]
It had a kind of hollow, in which was a rude seat, carved out of the stone. [11]
He fell back into the rounded hollow of the bench, and it occurred to him that he had never quite realized that profile. [9]
They peeped down into the dark holes of the kivas, and Bess gleefully dropped a stone and waited for the long-coming hollow sound to rise. [13]
It had some infernal note of falseness somewhere, some miserable, hollow place where the sound of my own voice, when I tried to speak the truth, mocked me! [11]
Its very turning in the lock awoke a hollow sound, and when she entered with a faltering step, the echoes that it raised in closing, made her start. [12]
He will conceal in the hollow sycamore that stands in front of Amminadab's house a letter which will inform thee whither they will next turn their steps. [10]
He held them in the hollow of his hand. [9]
The huntsman standing in the hollow moved and loosed his borzois, and Nicholas saw a queer, short-legged red fox with a fine brush going hard across the field. [2]
He was standing in a hollow, a kind of trench. [11]
This place sounded hollow underneath--it certainly was not the bakeroom. [11]
The world seemed hollow to me, and existence a grief. [5]
Leftward, from the hollow that lay at his feet, mounted a gradual slow-swelling slope to a great height topped by leaning, cracked, and ruined crags. [13]
Baltimore gave a hollow mirthless laugh, stopped short, and looked at Charles Fox. [9]
His footsteps sounded hollow in the empty rooms. [11]
Down in the hollow ground, underneath the olives and the orange-trees that flourish in the court of the great Mosque, is a wilderness of pillars--remains of the ancient Temple; they supported it. [5]
He gave a hollow cry, drew the knife from his own throat and, with a wild, shambling motion, struck at the motionless Bucklaw, pinning an arm to the ground. [11]
Sunken eyes and hollow cheeks--wet, cold, and famine--and horrors before them all, that were even worse--we must forget such things if we would be tranquil here. [12]
I had a hollow bigness within me, half of joy, half of pain, that sent me onward with ever increasing steps and a whirling storm of contradictions in my head. [9]
Her voice seemed hollow and strange and rather rough, as she said in reply: "It's a real cold, deep down, the same as I had nine years ago, Aunt Kate; and it's come to stay, I guess. [11]
Venters recognized a hobble-bell of a horse, and the cracking of iron on submerged stones, and the hollow splash of hoofs in water. [13]
At wide intervals his straining ear did detect sounds, but they were so remote, and hollow, and mysterious, that they seemed not to be real sounds, but only the moaning and complaining ghosts of departed ones. [5]
As token of his gratitude Cimon caused a monument to be erected in their honor in "the hollow way" near Athens. [10]

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