| 单词 | hollow |
| 例句 | Then they were silent again, for the idea of not having the ranch, the dry, stony desert of heartbreaking hillside and unprofitable hollow, was shocking to them. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z A little below him to the left the road ran down steeply into a hollow and disappeared. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Some squirrel had filled the hollow with acorns, seeds, hazelnuts. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Someone shouted Run! but we already were, tearing down the path toward the one place the hollow couldn’t reach us—the loop. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z It's different from counting crumbs of bread with that wild, hollow look in the eyes, just trying to stay alive. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Central Maryland stretched away to the horizon in folds and hollows, in bands of trees and rumpled fields, studded by silos that marked the presence of family farms. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Tom and Eb were sullen and resentful for days that their prophesies of an easy victory should so early have taken on a hollow ring. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Through the phone, his voice sounds hollow, and then he hangs up on me. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z He talks about feeling empty, about the family he left behind, about the woman before me and the one before that, the one who wrecked his head and left him hollow. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z But when Luiz, the steersman in Roosevelt’s canoe, took his ax and chopped into the hollow of the tree, Roosevelt could see a waxy formation. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z About ten yards away, near the ravine, something white was tucked into the hollow of a tree. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z They turned away and went down into a stony hollow. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z My mother held out her skirt, making a hollow out of it, while I dropped in the flowers and she named them: forget-me-not, wintergreen, pink, wild rose. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It wouldn’t hold the hollows for long— not two of them. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “I made her by hollowing out an enormous boiled sweet! Isn’t she beautiful! See how she comes cutting through the river!” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z The hut stood in a hollow of the dunes, and the old man and woman lived there alone in the utter desolation of the empty sea. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly, Pinmei yearned for the sound of Amah’s voice, and, inside, she felt as if the ever-present hollow ache would swallow her. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z The hard heels of her buttoned boots made a hollow banging sound against its wet boards, loud in the warm and breathless quiet. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt so dry in my throat, all through me, like I'd been hollowed by the wind. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z I turn my head and kiss the hollow beneath his throat. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The moment after she let go, the hollow leapt to the right— into the very place my compass had pointed. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “That’s amusing—but no. He was no accident. I’m certain these ‘enhanced’ hollows were an integral part of the assault on our loops.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z They set the urn in a hollow grave and piled great stones over it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “I understand,” said the owl, moving closer to the round entrance of his hollow. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z The plastic cover makes a deep, hollow sound; the glass tube sounds high, sharp. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z No long-ago look to take the place of the desperate glance we shared, or the hollow stare from his dark, empty eyes an instant later. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The man with Dad lifts his pint and takes a long swallow and when he puts his glass down there’s a hollow sound in the coffin. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “But that hollow at the menagerie didn’t become a wight,” said Emma. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z His daughter, Hypsipyle, a leader among the women, had spared her father and set him afloat on the sea in a hollow chest, which finally carried him to safety. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z They had hollow eyes and sunken cheeks, as if death had already halfway claimed them. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Even in the windless hollow it became too cold to sit motionless. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z It’s close enough to the hollow that, even if it’s cloudy, we can still make out some detail. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z They were on the lip of a circular hollow In the side or the mountain. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z His voice was a hollow whisper that I hadn’t heard before and hoped I’d never hear again. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Earlier, Cole had felt hollow and weak, as if all the blood had emptied from his body. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z My brain waves started whirling around the big hollow in my head, like molecules in a cumulonimbus cloud that’s about to burst. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z If the wights and hollows failed again, this time they’d destroy a lot more than five hundred miles of empty forest. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z I close the journal and put it back into the hollow for Madeline to find. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z The baton hitting the desk made a hollow, reverberating noise. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z A hollow voice rolled across the plains, shaking the warm fleshy ground. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z A black figure stood waiting for me at the head of the stairs, the hollow eyes watching me intently from the white skull’s face. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Jemmy looked up and barely made out a long, bony face with hollow cheeks and a nose like a meat cleaver. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z By evening, they began the time-consuming task of hollowing out and shaping the hard yellowish wood into a canoe. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z I said it because he needed it, but I felt hollow. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z The few bottles they carried in their pack were quickly drunk and by the second day all of them were parched and hollow in the heat and humidity. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z They’re in our heads and ears and they sit in the hollows of our collarbones. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “They say I’ve got a hollow leg,” Styx reported around a mouthful of chips. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z They lay now peering over the edge of a rocky hollow beneath the outstretched shadow of the northmost buttress of Ephel Dúath. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z I was able to forget how much danger we were in, and how that very day we had nearly been captured by wights and devoured by a hollow, our meat-stripped bones spat off a mountainside. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Here’s a rolled rug, its hollow filled with what smell like wood shavings: mice. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Jonathan wondered how many such hollow steps it would take for them to reach the fighting ground. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z If she neglected to check that hollow bedpan handles were cleaned and dry she would be in deeper trouble with the sister. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Sniffing near the skeleton-white roots of an upturned hollow tree stood a wild beast. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z I could blame the hollow feeling inside me on the hangover. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Then abruptly, but very gently, he rested his cold cheek against the hollow at the base of my throat. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The hollow sound of her knuckles on wood echoed in the clearing, but the cabin was silent. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Even the most cheerful greeting only partially hides the ubiquitous hollow stare. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Kendra reached up into the hatch and felt around inside the hollow rocking horse. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Such bereavement, witnessed at close range, makes even the most eloquent apologia for high-risk activities ring fatuous and hollow. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed to shout their location as it managed to hit every bump and hollow in the road. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z In moonlight, two acres of coarse bent grass, undulant and ankle deep, tumbled and rough as a horse’s mane, appear like a bay of waves, all shadowy troughs and hollows. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Her deep-set eyes were wet and glassy in their dark hollows. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Then he bent his head down and touched his cold lips softly to the hollow at the base of my throat. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Annabelle’s hair has grown out some, but her eyes look absent and hollowed out. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z This was to seal any cracks and holes, so that a hot agent could not escape by drifting through hollow electrical conduits. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He had thrown a piece of scrap metal at the toes and hit one, making a deep echo, as if the column were hollow. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The chin rest is Papa's shoulder, Papa's chest, the hollow of Papa's collarbone. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Even farther in, the silence was broken by a cacophony of strange sounds—the skittering of rats; hissing steam; the hollow, recurring tap of pipes, like the desperate scratching of a premature burial. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z But it all feels hollow, because I know better. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Bongo flew up to my smallest hollow and poked her head inside, her tail feathers still visible. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I will miss my mother and father and Caleb and evening firelight and the clack of my mother’s knitting needles, but that is not the only reason for this hollow feeling in my stomach. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z I press my back to the stainless steel cabinets and inch inward until I can duck into the hollow space beneath the grill. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Two forks led up mountain hollows to the “colored” camps of Mudhole and Snakeroot. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z His eyes are sunken and hollow, fixed on Phil as if I’m not there. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z He was so close to me I could have touched him—he was beautiful in the flesh, hollowed out and coiled like a spring, nervous energy radiating off him. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The slightly meaty odor of morels attracts flies, which lay eggs in the safety of the mushroom’s hollow stalk. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The bear said, “Ride on me,” and crouched to offer his broad back, and half-clinging, half-falling, she managed to stay on while he took her to a steep hollow, where many bears were assembled. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Then taking a box of caps from his pocket, he raised the hammer of the gun and slipped one of the little bright caps over the hollow pin that was under the hammer. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z A mix of conquered nations bound together, each of them had the hollow, raging face she’d seen so many times before. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z There are rats everywhere, hollowing the sweetest stalks, and insects too numerous to swat. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She couldn’t see it on his face, which was like a death mask: grim and lifeless with hollows for eyes. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z His face was pockmarked and beardless, with deepset eyes and hollow cheeks. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She could hear its single hollow thud against the wall as it fell, and then silence. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The ribs felt as if they were as hollow as the quill of a feather. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Dusk veiled their feet, and mist rose in the hollows. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Etienne sees soldiers with hollows in their cheeks like inverted cups. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “A Miss Teen Dream must be prepared at all times,” Taylor answered in a hollow voice. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z I find a long, flat piece of wood and use the knife to carve a little hollow in it. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Sansa was wondering what it might mean when a second bell joined in, and a third, their voices calling across the hills and hollows, the alleys and towers, to every comer of King's Landing. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Now, as I think back on it, I wasn’t in a hollow tree trunk. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z The cinders made hollow crunching noises under his boots. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He noticed her fingernails, the shape of her toes, the hollow place at her throat. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The withered gardens were a blight, and beggars lay as though dead, collecting coins on the hollows of their closed eyes, and there were altogether too many ruins. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z "Of course, of course! They're fine!" and he added hollowly, ". . .old sport." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Even down in the hollow where they had just hidden, a lump detached itself and crept up the side. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Still in that attitude he said, with a hollow voice, “Good night, Mr. Pip,” when I deemed it advisable to go to bed and leave him. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z And my chest felt hollow, like when you break open a chocolate bunny on Easter. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Moon-light caught his protruding cheekbones and cast the hollows beneath into shadow. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z And in that field it hollowed me out, turned the girl beside me to glass, nailed Fang to a black tower of rock. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z She could see the hollow in the huntress’s throat, now, where the collar of her shirt was open; her skin was colored gold in the candlelight. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They d hollow a hole in a log and put the corn in there, then pound and grind it with a heavy stick. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The room felt hollow and dead, like a body with its hearts cut out. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z His voice seemed hollow and stuffed up, nasal-sounding, as if he had a bad cold. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sure,” Jack says, but his voice sounds hollow. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z On the western flank of Weathertop they found a sheltered hollow, at the bottom of which there was a bowl-shaped dell with grassy sides. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z There’s a hollow feeling in the pit of my stomach. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z A strangler'd take someone there to strangle and bury, it was that sort of edgy hollow. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The path continued rising and falling for about another quarter of a mile, then dipped down into a hollow. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z And not only did Edward feel hollow; he ached. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Most of the house was shut up, the furniture draped with heavy white cloths to keep the worst of the dust off, the skittering sound of mice echoing hollowly whenever Ophie opened a door. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z The object was to knock your opponent’s piece out of the hollow. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Her little hollowed face peered out at them all, little sunken blue lips like a toothless old woman’s lips, and hollow black eyes peering. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Agnes, the barn owl who lived with her nestlings in my highest hollow, flapped her wings in annoyance. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Soon there was a small pile of debris in the hollow as the rabbits brought anything from which it could get food. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In any case, they now had so great a dislike for that hollow place about the stone that no thought of remaining there was in their minds. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The theater was hollow, empty, like a tomb with phantoms crawling gray and black on the vast screen. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z I crossed my elbows over my knees and buried my face in the little hollow I had made. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Then quietly Gollum drew back and slipped down into the hollow. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z I shuffled forward to feel for hollows in the dark. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Ammu put out her tongue and tasted it, in the hollow of his throat. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “It became a hollow that could enter loops.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The monkey was hollow, like all the water droppers Min made. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z As they moved over the short turf—nibbling, sitting up and looking round them—they approached a little hollow, no more than three feet across. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Matt had been sleeping in a hollow formed by his body. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z So hollow I wasn’t even in my own body anymore. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z I cracked a pod from the stem and blew into the silk-lined hollow, sending the remaining puffs sailing, a snowy shower rising, vanishing into the clouds. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z A hollow, desperate disappointment made his hands feel sweaty and his heart lose the rhythm of its beat. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Far back in the soft belly, the slashing, razor-sharp claws of the lion had cut into the hollow. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z And on and on it went—that duet between the dumb, praying lady and the big, hollow man who was so full of loving echoes. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Why Peeta took a beating to give me the bread on that awful hollow day. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z He knew it too,- the grey face, the hollow eyes, the limp. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z His heavy, dark eyebrows, the curve of his cheek, the line of his nose, the hollow at the base of his neck. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z It was so quiet; the bees hummed and the river water played the pebbles, the rocks, and the hollows. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Standing on end in the yard was a tall length cut from the trunk of a big hollow tree. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z A curious necklace glittered in the hollow of her throat. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Her leg made a hollow, metallic sound, like I’d just hit a flagpole. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Little sketches of fairy couples dancing in the moonlight, gnomes peeking out from hollowed trees, a stone palace with turrets spiraling up from each corner. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Gulls make their nests high on the cliffs, in hollow places on the rocks. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Harsh sounds of chains and pulleys, like the workings of an ancient steel factory echoed through the room, bouncing off the walls with a hollow, tinny whine. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Everyone told Kaede that she had done the right thing, but she felt hollow inside. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “Arranging the hollows’ meals is what wights spend most of their time doing. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z I get the ball and pass it to her, loving the hollow thump it makes hitting her hands. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Giant had crammed himself inside the hollow of a dead oak. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Because of the hollow in the menagerie loop?” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “He’s hollow inside, like a chocolate soldier. They just took him away and left those bandages there.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Even with my hair and the hollows beneath my eyes. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z That view was somehow disquieting; so they turned from the sight and went down into the hollow circle. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z She put the butter and eggs carefully in a hollow log and climbed a tree from which she could see the whole of the field. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Scipio examined his mask and poked a finger into one of its hollow eyes. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z HairySpiders, the mother opossum, peeked out cautiously from her own hollow. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The eyes and ears and lips were movable, and little perches connected them with the inside of the hollow head. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I asked, my voice sounding hollow to my own ears. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z When they finally summoned the nerve to steal back into the ruins the next night, nothing remained but blackened stones, the hollow shells of houses, and corpses. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Glumbumbles nest in dark and secluded places such as hollow trees and caves. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The black autumn clouds were behind them, and her hollow ribs stood out like flake-white against their indigo. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked at her, his eyes hollow, empty, like she’d never seen them before. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z As his team trooped up the spiral staircase to the second floor, Kyle looked down at the Rotunda Reading Room and realized how hollow the library seemed without anybody in it. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Cole knew that the Spirit Bear had found a cave somewhere or dug out a hollow under a fallen tree to hibernate. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Little Hobart Street was too high up in the hollow to get any flooding, but the rain washed parts of the road into the yards of the people who lived below us. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z And then he heard a hollow crunch of bone. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Without eyes to offer contrast, the eyelashes looked like insects moving against the hollow sockets. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Then something terrible occurred to me: what if this wasn’t a fear of heights I was feeling—but of hollows? Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “If the alternative is to wait and just hope—that no more hollows come, that the headmistress gets better—I say that’s no alternative at all.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z When she hugged Mrs. Muokelu goodbye, it was with the hollow feeling that she would never see her again. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Bran’s belly felt so hollow it might have been three years. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They were hollow inside, the soil dry underneath. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z We stopped in a hollow among the roots, and High John surprised me. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z With a thunderous crash, hollow and boulder hit the ground together. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z And he stared at her and at the shadowed hollows of her face and he thought again how there was no beauty in her and how for many years had he not desired her. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z One who passed in and came at length out of the echoing tunnel, beheld a plain, a great circle, somewhat hollowed like a vast shallow bowl: a mile it measured from rim to rim. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The hollows of the waves all were full of darkness while the crests shone yet with a clear ruddy reflection of the west. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z His chest split down the middle, exposing the flame-filled hollow within him. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Having regular meals had filled out his once hollow cheeks, and he was three inches taller than her now. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z In another month the grasshoppers would be dead; autumn wind and old age would chill them bone white, leaving their hollow shells to swirl with the dry leaves in the ditch. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I had walked past her church before and heard music spilling from the falling-down clapboard building; the spirited singing and proclamations of joy emerging from it beat the other churches all hollow, to my mind. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “Look at this face,” she said, and I saw her dusty face and hollow cheeks, her eyes shining back. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Nothing was real except his hunger, once a hollow in his stomach but now a deep buzzing pain in every part of him. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z He sees her hollow eyes and her protruding stomach as she loses more and more strength each day. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z My stomach was making sounds, hollow rumbling sounds that seemed too loud, that would not stop even when I sucked in my belly. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Like if you touched it, it would crumble or end up being a sham, hollow. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Her mouth was open so that her cheeks seemed hollow. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Wild eyes, hollow cheeks, my hair in a tangled mat. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z He raced downstairs and I heard the hollow thumping of the basement steps as he went down them. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z His cheeks were long and hollow, his mouth turned down at the corners, and there was a lost look in his eyes. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Bando finds some shelled beechnuts and hazelnuts lying at the base of a hollow tree near the grave. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She walked up the limb to the hollow, climbed over the sill and stepped inside. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z They lay like a blue- black shadow across his square jaw and die bony hollows of his cheeks. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z But it's a hollow day, and even with all that I start daydreaming about food. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z It lay on its side in such a way that the solid parts of the block formed a roof and a floor, both waterproof, and the hollows made two spacious rooms. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Finality hung in the air, heavy and hollow. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z He had told Farid to stay farther away, in the hollow behind the house. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z When their grief abated a little, the companions hollowed out a grave, lining it with flat stones. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z The room, stripped of almost every trace of his grandparents, made its own hollow quiet. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z Essentially, it went where access could be gained, mostly high up on the hills, over lonely ridges and forgotten hollows that no one had ever used or coveted, or sometimes even named. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “If my grandfather had run from the hollow that killed him, he might still be alive,” I said. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Then there was nothing at all between the hollow and me. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z You understand I am collapsing all time now so that it fits in what's left in the hollow of my story? How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z A hollow moan filled the air, and then something that sounded like the clanking of chains. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z “Ha ha ha, ho ho ho, I wouldn’t attempt it if I were you, Matthias. He’s liable to beat you hollow in his present mood.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z I approached the ice cautiously and peered across it, and even in the weak light, I saw the hollow right away. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Then came mutton roasted with leeks and carrots, served in trenchers of hollowed bread. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I reach to the nearest wall and touch the tip of the quill to the darkness residing between two slats of wood, and something darker than ink sucks into the hollow of the quill. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “It told us about the hollow. And the baby.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z At some point I lay down in an irresistible hollow at the base of a tree and urged Mother and the others to go on without me. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Justice is, indeed, a product of the Appalachian coalmining country where lush mountains flank rust-colored creeks, the hollows rising so steeply that there is barely room for a house on either side of the creeks. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Matt found a rain-filled hollow in a rock and drank until his head stabbed with pain. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But surrounding it was the stillness of nearmidnight in a country town, so that the hurrying feet and the repressed voices had a hollow reverberance. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z There is a hollow tree where I can keep my things and when it rains I get in the tree, too. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Past the hatred in his gaze, there existed a cold and hollow terror. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Theon hacked a loaf of bread in half, hollowed out a trencher, and summoned a cook to fill it with fish stew. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The barn was still dark, hollow with the emptiness of the displaced people it housed. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Effie calls a reminder to meet early for breakfast to work out our training strategy, but even her voice sounds hollow. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The other two ran quickly to the left and down into a little hollow not far from the road. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z When they reached the entrance to the cave, Neel shone the light inside the hollow while his sister peered around his shoulder. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z Even when the weather was warm, they’d have to stay out there for days, because it was always so damp in that hollow on the north side of the mountain. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z My plan is to bang the end of the stick, which is about the length of Daddy’s walking cane, against each floorboard to see if any of them sound hollow underneath. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z I pull it out from the hollow and flip through the pages, looking for signs of an intruder, until I come to the end of the chapter I wrote last week. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Even the fittest of us were flagging now, and soon the hollows would catch up to us and we’d have to face them in the middle of the street. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The tables were all large enough for a small metal hollow to be fitted in their centers. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Before that wight died, he told us why they’ve been abducting so many ymbrynes. They’re going to force them to re-create the reaction that made the hollows in the first place—only bigger. Much bigger.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z I heard a hollow thudding—thock!—as if someone were knocking wood. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z The hollow looked up to see the rock sailing toward it and poised to jump again—but there wasn’t time. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z She looks skinny, with the bones of her chest exposed and her cheekbones hollow. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z He had just crawled in a hollow tree and had gone to bed for the day when I came to the meadow. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I brought out my hollowed cork with pins stuck down to make bars. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Its lowest limbs reached out over a hollow; its upper branches glinted blue with feeding jays. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I sneaked out a quart jar of peaches, some cold corn bread, and a few onions, and started up the hollow back of our house. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I am hollow and barren and still a child, an orphan with no one to show me what to do or expect next. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z From twine and yew wood they’d made miniature bows; they’d used the hollow cedar as a kind of fort and run up and down the hillside shooting at each other. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z My mind saw a clean and pressed uniform, with a nest of wicked snakes sprouting out of his neck, or a skull with hollow black eyes, smoking a cigarette. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The blue light casts shadows into the faint hollows beneath Edward’s cheekbones. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Melisandre felt the warmth in the hollow of her throat as her ruby stirred at the closeness of its slave. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z To complete this hollow gesture, Octavian arranged for the faithful Octavia to deliver this aid to her husband in what could be a joyous reunion. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z I’ve cried a few times, but mostly I’m empty, as if whatever makes me feel and hurt and laugh and love has been surgically removed, leaving me hollowed out like a shell. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Deep inside there was a hollow hall, raftered with dead branch and bramble, and roofed with the first leaves and shoots of spring. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z But this time, Gram’s words sound hollow to me. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Then I hung up the phone, and speaking a language I didn’t know I knew, I ordered the hollow to stand. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z "I'd like to give you something," she begins, but the English words are hollow on her tongue. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Halfway there he heard the sound he dreaded, the hollow rasping cough of a horse. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z A few still stood, burned out and hollow or missing their roofs. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z One of the taps sounded more hollow than all the others. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z “And how do you propose to do that? Wander around until you see a hollow? What then? ‘Excuse me, we were wondering what your intentions might be, vis a vis eating us.’” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z So Small God laughed a hollow laugh, and skipped away cheerfully. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z We stood in the alley where we shot basketballs through hollowed crates and cracked jokes on the boy whose mother wore him out with a beating in front of his entire fifth-grade class. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Her eyes that night: hollow like an old stump. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z It was cut to fit around their necks in the back, and hollowed out to fit over their shoulders. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly he stopped, put the hobbits down, and raised his curled hands to his mouth so that they made a hollow tube; then he blew or called through them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z My voice sounded strange and hollow in my ears. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The rain patters in a hollow echo against the metal, drops evaporating into steam where the iron is still hot. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z One by one, heads poked out of my hollows, as well as the skunk den under the porch, to watch Bongo at work. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z They were quite hollow, indeed they were falling all to pieces, but as quiet and sweet-spoken as a young leaf. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z This time, though, Lourdes longs for a profound emptiness, to be clean and hollow as a flute. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “I have no idea what’s wrong,” Miles said, his voice hollow. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z It was morning: The sun shone down in long beams of light, raising the dew from the ground in misty breaths that lingered in the hollows between tree roots. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z To-day he is a drawn, haggard old man, whose white hair matches well with the hollow burning eyes and grief-written lines of his face. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z At that moment they both heard a low, breathy hissing from the hollow. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He could hear the hollow boom-boom-boom-boom of the flak pounding all around him in overlapping measures of four, the sharp, piercing crack! of a single shell exploding suddenly very close by. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z With a hologram, like when your teacher is one of them, if you aren’t looking right at them, they sometimes seem to be hollow. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I fumbled with the tread of the hollow stair, then threw it to the side and lifted out the metal box. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "You haven't been outside the camps. Believe me. Europe is a hollow shell full of hollow men. Let me ask you, what do you know about Eretz Yisrael?" What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The hollow inside him was suddenly too small for the anger. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Tialys continued to pack the lodestone resonator away, and as he did so, the Lady Salmakia woke up nearby, sitting up graceful and slow from the little hollow she’d made in the soft sand. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The big ones shoot out of their boxes with hollow thumps and explode with echoing claps that set off car alarms. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It was taking shape more rapidly now that she used burning coals to hollow it out. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Personally, it wasn’t wights that concerned me most, but hollows. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z I press my face into his shoulder, and there is a sudden, hollow silence. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The inside of the hollow was red with dried sap and blackened by fire. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I knew that somewhere down below the surface there had to be another hole in the trunk, as water had filled the hollow to the river level. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z His question punched the air out of her and left her feeling hollow. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z I hurried up the hollow, calling her name. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Swiftly, but with great care, the girl placed her bundle in my hollow. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z My bones were hollow sticks; my brainpan empty. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Her sister’s skin hung loose, like a hollowed frog’s, as if she had shrunken inside it. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z His nose snuffled in the hollow of my throat. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She laughs, but there's a hollow sound to it. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It was hollow and completely empty — but the moment Harry opened it, the most horrible noise, a loud and screechy wailing, filled the room. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z As they came near the hollow they could hear that it was not empty. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought of telling her to let the pigeon go so we could follow it—but what use would it be to find Miss Wren now, while hollows were chasing us? Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z We topped the hill before us and saw Lanyon lying in a hollow at our feet. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The limbs are rotten and there is a hollow place in the trunk. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The cold was shocking, but I was elated to feel anything other than the hollow’s tongue wrapping around my throat. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z I felt for her pulse in the hollow of her slender throat. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He had simply crawled into the hole at the bottom, climbed up the hollow of the tree, and worked his way out on the limb. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z All about them now, as if there had been a sudden flood, wide pools of water lay beside the road, filling the hollows, and rills went trickling down among the stones. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z If the drama is bad, if the film says nothing, if the play is hollow, sting me with the theremin, loudly. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Rupa managed to tie the milky vest to the end of the stick and then carefully pushed it deeper into the hollow until it was within the cub’s reach. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z He sucks in air, and his cheeks hollow like a skeleton. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z Meggie heard a hollow groan; he had probably woken the guard with a kick. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The wind freshened, and soon myriads of dry beech leaves were filling the ditches and hollows and blowing in gusts across the dark miles of open grass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a ledge, a little cliff, with a small hollow underneath. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “You’re all pasty white where your swimsuit covers you up,” she said, her head close to mine and her mouth huge and hollow, and begging for me to stuff hay into it, so I did. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z There were two helicopters, and he lay, crouched in a hollow beneath a fallen tree, and listened to them pass over. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z A thunderous echo rumbled back from the surrounding hollows. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I wish that made me feel some sense of relief or closure, but the victory was hollow. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z But holding them there in his hand, in the hollow of his brown hard hand, he knew from the gleaming and the glittering in the half-dark room that he held wealth. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z It had been hollowed out, turned into a box. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “I did do something nice for another person,” Enoch said, “and it nearly got us eaten by hollows!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z We were rising fast and it seemed like the hollow would miss us, but just as it reached the apex of its jump, one of its tongues shot out and lassoed Emma around the ankle. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z In her way, she meant them, but they still felt hollow. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z If the stump was hollow, as it seemed to be, there was no telling who or what might be living in it. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z His fingernails tickled their dry ivory exteriors, making the bones clang against each other with a hollow sound that echoed through the cave. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z It made a hollow bubbling sound that ceased after a moment. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The phone in his office was dead, however, and gave him back only a hollow silence; so was his printing press dead, for that matter, he realized now with a start. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I walked at the front of the group, feeling for hollows, but it was really the pigeon who led us, tugging on its leash like a bloodhound after a scent. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z "If I did, my word would be as hollow as an empty suit of armor. My life is not so precious to me as that." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I press my back against a tree, wishing its trunk were a hollow I could hide in. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z There’s more hair along the things elongated neck, and its hoofed feet make a hollow clip-clopping sound in the packed dirt as it walks down the road toward us. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z My eyes rise up the hollow twirl of the staircase and it is as if we are inside a gigantic seashell. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Soon the street sounds receded, leaving only the rumble of trains and the hollow clip-clop of an occasional horse. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z High up in the top I saw a hollow in the end of a broken limb. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He did not whisper, though he did not speak overloud; the dark room which he faced repeated his voice with hollow profundity, as an unfurnished room will. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z Ta-p’en-k’eng sites of Taiwan and the South China coast are full of fish bones and mollusk shells, as well as of stone net sinkers and adzes suitable for hollowing out a wooden canoe. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In his thoughts were vestiges of old skid roads and forgotten farm paths that bled into vales of ghost fern and hollows filled with skunk cabbage. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Finally I spotted him, still under the dense shade of the canopy at the edge of the hollow, watching me with cautious eyes. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z She would pour cool water over my neck from the hollowed cup of a large grapefruit. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “And you won’t have to worry about that hollow anymore. We killed it.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z They entered a huge, hollow hall lined with benches and ticket windows. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z At last the guard returned; once more I was stowed away in the coach, my protector mounted his own seat, sounded his hollow horn, and away we rattled over the “stony street” of L——. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z She had green eyes and sharp bones in her face, and hollow cheeks, and there was something brittle in her reticence that suggested strong will and a temper easily lost. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The lashes made a dark, curved fringe above the hollows of his cheeks. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The sacks under his eyes turned hollow and black, and he padded through the shadows fruitlessly like a ubiquitous spook. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Her eyes were hollow and dark, as if she had been crying, or missing sleep, or both. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z A thin white belt snaked around her narrow waist, and a small diamond cross glinted in the hollow of her neck. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z My stomach feels a little hollow, like I’m hungry, but food is not what I want. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z I find every imperfection: her wispy hair, her hollow cheeks, her sallow skin, the too-slow beat of her heart. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Days on the march, trailing behind the khalasai, had left her limping and hag-gard, with blistered and bleeding feet and hollows under her eyes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Jesse owned few valuables he considered worth hiding, but those he did he kept in a hollow space under his bathroom sink. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z I looked down at the book I had just found, the one Gram said the fairies had left me in the sycamore hollow, trying to decide whether or not I believed her. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Her face was thin and there were hollows under her cheeks but her body was fuller. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Quite early in the evening, however, he made his way once more to the hollow. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It remained now only to find a hollow where I could lie down, and feel at least hidden, if not secure. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The mattress shifts, and Henry moves up to the pillows, nuzzling his face into the hollow of Alex’s throat. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z To the Negro who sees this element of the white man’s nature—and he sees it much more often than any other—the white man’s comments about the Negro’s alleged “immorality” ring maddeningly hollow. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Kids were bused in from way up in the hollows and from coal camps such as Davy and Hemphill that were too small to have their own high school. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z His voice echoed all round the clearing, very high and hollow. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z The hollow rumble of the hard wheels on the concrete floor went around a corner and slowly died away. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the bunch of reeds was pulled apart in the middle to form a hollow, and the two sides were tied all along their length to make a basic boat shape. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s called heart rot, did you know that? What happens to a tree when it gets hollowed out.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The hollow was getting faster at making the holds; now it was a moving target. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Salva looked at the hollow eyes and the cracked lips of the men lying on the hot sand, and his own mouth felt so dry that he nearly choked when he tried to swallow. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The hollow space behind the walls was pitch-black, but he fumbled until he felt metal. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z This was followed by a hollow sound of scraping. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He wanted the feel of her hips, her mouth, the sweet hollow of her neck. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Or a sadness so deep, like your very core has been hollowed out and fed back to you from a dirty bucket? Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The drakoris flesh dissolved, and it collapsed into a hollow scaly tunnel of armor. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Since roosting overnight in a tree isn't sensible anyway, I scoop out a hollow under the bushes and cover myself with leaves and pine needles. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Everything was going the way I had planned, but I felt hollow. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh hell, there is more,” I say, and my chest feels hollow and iced. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z I feel hollow inside, as if a big part of me is gone. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z The problem was that rainwater collected behind the slack dumps up the hollows. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z There were definitely two hollow grooves that looked like eyes. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I climb down, take out my handkerchief, spread it out, push it under and scoop up the yellow water that strains through into the hollow of my hand. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite his wide girth, his cheeks looked hollow. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The woman held a long-arm nearly as tall as she was, shooting hollow glass orbs and targets effortlessly. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Ashes drifted into the hollow places in my bones and silted up my brainpan. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’re pretty sure he’s in that hollow limb, are you?” he asked. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z In the modern era of intensive forestry the old hollow trees are gone and with them homes for woodpeckers and other tree-nesting birds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Time was when I could walk and sing all day and hear no more than the echo of my own voice in the hollow hills. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He lay completely still on a plank, his cheeks hollow, his mouth agape. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “It’s okay,” I told Rachel, though my words sounded hollow. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z He meant to squeeze it into the hollow between the two boulders but could not do so silently. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Her eyes were deep hollows, and her cheeks were gaunt, but she wasn’t scary. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z But, in truth, these claims and boasts are hollow. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Slowly, the hollow lifted us off the ground—six inches, then a foot, then two—only to slam us back down again, shattering the booth windows, raining glass on us. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Tendai climbed on top of a grand piano—he shared the space with a stuffed pheasant and a hippopotamus foot hollowed out for umbrellas. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Pulling him from the hole, I held my lantern up and looked down into the dark hollow. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The night creatures returned to their hollows and grottoes, and the birds flitted nervously between the branches, twittering. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z It hits me hard, but in a strange, hollow kind of way. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z There are hollow casts of legs and feet standing around on the floor like elephant-foot umbrella stands; in one of them there’s an umbrella. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Lina sat Poppy down in a kind of nook formed by a roundish boulder and a hollow in the wall. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He was like a statue being chiseled away from the inside, hollowed out. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Usually it was painful and obvious when a hollow was nearby, but in a giant space like this—among hundreds of people—my warning might only be a whisper, the faintest twinge, easy to miss. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Then he whirled around and buried his face in the hollow between Chess’s shirt and Emma’s sleeve. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z One used a cane which from time to time she tapped hollowly upon the walk like a blind man. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z His face looked gaunt, his bearded cheeks hollow. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z When he heard it, the man tipped his hat down a little over his eyes, hoisted his trousers and thought about the hollow place at the base of her neck. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z She pointed to the hollow in a huge sycamore tree. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z For some reason my words rang a little hollow. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z By night of that day they reached an abbey set in a hollow. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z He is another skeleton, but even in their dark hollows, his eyes are bright, hazel like my father's. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z A hollow moan filled the air, and then some-thing that sounded like the clanking of chains. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z The hollow wooden sound like to busted Pink and Lee Roy clear out of the hay. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Pushing back the deerskin door of my hemlock home, I enter the smoke and minty smelling tree hollow and slump to the pile of furs that replaces my outgrown sapling bed. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The metal beast let out another earsplitting shriek, followed by hollow, booming laughter. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z It’s stayed dry enough out here over the years, because the hollow is deep. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z The sharp, pointed fragment hit a hollow tooth and whanged into the nerve. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z And then the hollow was reeling itself up, its jaws inching closer until we could smell its stinking grave- breath. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The eyes were hollow and the carven beard was broken, but about the high stern forehead there was a coronal of silver and gold. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The desire that had awakened within her was like a fog descending on a mountain valley, filling every hollow, slipping between tree limbs, tickling every leaf with its seductive breath. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I forced myself to stare at the hollow despite a nearly unbearable urge to look away. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Into the hollows of one of the cinder blocks, the one centered just above the front door, Arturo placed a print of San Martín Caballero encased in a plastic bag, to bring us luck. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z That would kill me faster than any hollow could. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z There was a breeze coming down the hollow. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z A hundred hollows could spend a week hacking at that ice and not reach us. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The sensation made me feel hollow down to my bones. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Even where the track widened it was treacherous,- there were cracks big enough to swallow a man's leg, rubble to stumble over, hollow places where the water pooled by day and froze hard by night. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Her cheeks are now hollow, her skin hangs on her bones, and her eyes are dulled with hunger. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The noises in the kitchen became louder and less hollow. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z The penny settled in the hollow of my chest, its weight warm and comforting. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Grasshoppers crackled, a locust buzzed, a woodpecker blammed against a faraway hollow tree. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He was rapping on the planks as if testing to see if they were hollow. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The story made me feel hollow, and guilty too. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z It had seemed so empty with the bare plywood bunks and seats, hollow and echoing. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Sam viewed the hollow with great dislike, now that he had heard news of their enemies on the Road, only a few miles away. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The palace was made of the same clean,white, unadorned stone as the Ice Court walls, and the whole place felt as if it had been hollowed out of a glacier. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z There smokes trailed on the ground and lurked in hollows, and fumes leaked from fissures in the earth. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Close to the Ford there is a small hollow beside the road masked by a few stunted trees. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Tessie filled this hollow with throw pillows in order to see over the steering wheel. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Old Tallow made a move to leave, but Omakayas said, her voice strange and hollow and small, “Daga, please, don’t go.” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z His cheeks are so hollowed and pitted, he looks like he subsists entirely on turnips. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Then they let the fire go out, and Pa took all the strips and pieces of meat out of the hollow tree. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z He scooped out a hollow and lying down piled the leaves over him like a thick coverlet. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s an ungodly collision of brass that finishes with a cymbal’s hollow clang. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z They saw his outline but they did not realize it was hollow inside. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “The hollow’s by the third trough from the left, so keep to the right! ” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z One of the men—he introduced himself as Dave—climbed a ladder to inspect my hollows. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Every now and then things would start moving again, and sounds were bass heavy and hollow. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z Despite the fact that it had no face or mouth, a familiar hollow voice spoke from behind its visor. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z And then maybe she would hide the skin there, deep in the hollow of a tree, for when she needed to spread enormous white wings. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z All about them as they lay hung the darkness, hollow and immense, and they were oppressed by the loneliness and vastness of the dolven halls and endlessly branching stairs and passages. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Her hair shone with good health, and her eyes no longer stared back from hollows. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, all that confronted me were its shadows—the swarming crowds of people, the trash littering the walkways, the hollow spaces. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z But it was a hollow threat and they both knew it. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Pushing through the last thorny bush that obstructed his way, Neel shone the light into the hollow. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z Only a thin, hollow metal door stood between her and them. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The hollow seemed frozen now, staring at me. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Little Hobart Street led up into one of those hollows so deep and narrow that people joked you had to pipe in the sunlight. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Who told her to hollow out the log with coals? A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Within its trunk was a hollow holding a single white flower, its petals shining softly. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z “He said he was going mad here. Said he couldn’t stand it any longer. Poor Bronwyn. My Abe left, too, but at least he wasn’t murdered by hollows.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z On the third night, Mother tended him and I stood in the doorway, listening to his gasps, watching Mother watch him, her face hollow, her eyes swollen with worry and exhaustion. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Wraparound shades hid his eyes, but I knew what was behind those glasses—hollow sockets filled with flames. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z I heard voices, too, speaking with a hollow sound, and as if muffled by a rush of wind or water: agitation, uncertainty, and an all-predominating sense of terror confused my faculties. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z When I get to the grove, I pull the journal out from the sycamore hollow. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z He climbed straight to his former hollow and settled there, his tiny head poking out. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I put my hand in the hollow and find more. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z They followed a winding trail to the small hollow surrounded by five ancient trees, known as the Witch’s Handmaidens. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z But though I laughed, I felt trapped, as hollow as a rotten tree. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z The goblet drops to the dirt, making a hollow clanking sound. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z There had been very little hope from the beginning, but on seeing the hollow I gave up. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The wooden plug in his earlobe has been switched out for a hollow bone circle that makes a round window next to his jaw. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z About the size of a melon, the hollow chamber felt unnervingly light in one’s hand, air blowing through as though it were a sun-bleached shell. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z One half of the chamber’s interior was occupied by a hollow semicircular electrode shaped like the letter D and known forever more as a “dee.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “I can see hollows,” I said, a little embarrassed. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z He laughed, hollow as the cavern around him. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z The helm turned his laugh into a hollow rumble. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z When I have my breath and courage back, I continue up, branch after branch, until I’m standing with one hand reaching into the old hollow, groping around. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z The others filled in with what they could find — sticks, coconuts, hollowed bamboo. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Soon after, all the rabbits had come together in a kind of hollow. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z My guilt was hollowing me from the inside out. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z My voice echoed in the hollow that surrounded the quiet cove. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Suddenly he was aware of a draft against one side of his nose, a smell of damp, rotten matter and a hollow, echoing sound at his very ear. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Circling around through the flats, I came to the hollow above the Pritchards’ place. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z That winter, Andeg found a little hollow in a tree next to the cabin. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z A hen had scratched out a hollow and carpeted its walls and floor with dry grass. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The Romans had made the dome out of big stone panels, but they’d hollowed out each panel in a square-within-square pattern. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Following my example, Tommy and Ruth made their way to another tree trunk, hollow and more emaciated than mine, a short way behind to my left. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z I rock in the dark hollow of the landing, feeling like I am back in the silent vacuum where my voice is never heard. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z I stash my weapons in the hollow log nearest my old home in the Seam and head for the fence. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z No, we had to lose the hollows first. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z I was glad to come out on to the lawn and see the house there in the hollow, solid and secure. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Even the young children, some of whom Pinmei recognized from her past visits, were strangely silent, gaping at them with hollowed eyes. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z One story described it as the inverse of the sky—a huge, hollow, upside-down dome of rock. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z When he stood again at the edge of the hull’s cracked hollow, Pima was standing alone in the water, foam up to her thighs. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The creature in the hollow was a bird—a big bird, nearly a foot long. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I wrote about the peculiar children and the hollows and how all of Grandpa Portman’s stories had turned out to be true. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z His father had hollowed it out during long winter evenings as he sat by the stove. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It sounded, Eleanor thought, like a hollow noise, a hollow bang, as though something were hitting the doors with an iron kettle, or an iron bar, or an iron glove. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z The cat, after a good deal of wary observation, made a little hollow among the spruce needles and curled around in it, purring softly. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Hailsham stood in a smooth hollow with fields rising on all sides. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “This apparatus works unerringly as the mills of the gods, but beats them hollow as to speed,” the Electrical Engineer read, according to a history published by Columbia University. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Each Sucker consisted of a yellow cardboard tube filled with sherbet powder, and there was a hollow liquorice straw sticking out of it. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z I wished she would go; she was like a shadow standing there, watching me, appraising me with her hollow eyes, set in that dead skull's face. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I slide from the rock to the ground and walk softly over to the sycamore hollow to pull out the book inside. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z “We’ll do that later. Poke up the fire a bit. Now, do you see this block of charcoal, with the hollow in it? And this funny-looking mold?” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Click, click, click went the pincers of the spiders all around the hollow. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Instead, he pressed himself back into the opposite side of the hollow and stood. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The fangs are curved and hollow, the venom dripping from them is yellow. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z George flipped the block over with a hollow slap so the side facing her read room 205. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z He rounded another hill and threw himself into a hollow in the ground. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z There was some pushing and brawling around the tipple and rumors of gunfire up the hollows. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Dad’s arms curled so gently around Laleh, who had her little legs tucked up under her stomach, and her face nestled in the hollow of his collarbone. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z “Maybe you stomped it to nothing and now he’s hollow and empty, a shell with no turtle inside.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “He fought bravely and killed scores of hollows for our cause!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z All around them the wide, clear morning lay limpid in the hollows and pearly blue in the warm air above. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The gas still creeps over the ground and sinks into all hollows. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Every hollow I’d come into contact with had left a mark on me. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z For a moment, in his face, I caught a glimpse of the boy he had once been, lost and frightened, his gaze hollowed out. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z His close- cropped beard lay like a shadow over his hollow cheeks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It was pink, made of fiberglass, nearly eight feet tall, with a hollow shell so kids could play inside. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The hams and the shoulders were put to pickle in brine, for they would be smoked, like the venison, in the hollow log. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Everybody was whooping and hollowing and I kicked my legs to get down but I couldn’t because Mama had a hold of me so tight it was hurting my arm. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Their footsteps echoed hollowly off the walls, the butcher’s cart rumbling behind them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They heard a hollow scrabbling sound—and then silence. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z And I squeezed it tight so I could press down hard, hard enough to feel the snap of hollow bone, the last beat of unsung song. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z My father has the look of a man who used to be handsome, but as he has aged, his cheeks have become hollow, his features harsh and strict. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z I picked up the flat rock in front of the cross and set the offering in the hollow under it. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Glinting in the hollows of his dark eyes. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The hollow is bent and twisted, its tongues waving in the air, open jaws dripping black on the mat. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z I step forward, pulling down my collar so Mr. Gideon can stick the needle in the hollow of my neck. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z One of them, a shrunken old man with stubble and a hollow face, has an earthenware jug tipped up to his lips. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Her cheeks were hollow, and with her sorrowful, honey-colored face she truly resembled her mother now. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Nya took the hollowed gourd that was tied to the handle of the plastic container. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z It landed with a soft, hollow slap, in the undergrowth. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Martin had seen a hollow- gast—at night, in the rain, as it was tearing him to shreds—and had mistaken it for his most prized exhibit. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z His voice sounded hollow and far away, like he was asking the question under great duress on behalf of someone who didn’t want to know the answer. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z The hollow echo of their frantic cries sent chills across his sweaty skin. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Her cheeks were hollow, and she had big bags beneath her eyes. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The others insisted that the war and the hollows had come to them now, and they had no choice. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z In the distance I could see the first grey roofs of Kerrith, while to the right, in a hollow, lay the deep woods of Manderley and the sea beyond. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z There was a hollow ringing sound in my ears. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z That night Matthias slept inside a long hollow log with both ends disguised to make it appear solid. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z But eventually the hole healed, widened with the help of insects, and now, about four feet off the ground, I have a deep oval hollow. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The dull gray daylight carved deep shadows beneath Kaede’s eyes and darkened the hollows in her cheeks. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z She returns a minute later with a gaunt, hollow man with big circles under his eyes and a nose that looks like it’s been broken in about three places. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z I woke up and my stomach was screaming, hollowing itself out under my little chest. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z He had a skillful worker in wood make a huge wooden horse which was hollow and so big that it could hold a number of men. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt his hand, lighter than a moth’s wing, brushing my damp hair back, so that his lips could touch the hollow beneath my ear. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z And instead of killing him, it only hollowed him out. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z “It’s one of the ways you know there might be a hollow hanging about,” said Emma. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Doli jumped down, and after examining several trees ran quickly to the ruins of an enormous hollow oak. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z “Of course not. I was hiding. The backseat of our car is hollowed out—Dad had it custom-built.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Others are alone, leaning against walls or sitting in corners, their eyes hollow or staring at something that is far away. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Inside, he felt sick and hollow and very young. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “So he was trying to light that thing on fire? Why didn’t it work? What’s—” Bast tightened his grip, his thumb digging into the hollow beneath Chronicler’s collarbone. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The beginnings of the new warren had been hollowed out among the roots of one of the beech trees. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z As a hot dry wind clears the air, I can see Frightful, my peregrine falcon, sitting in front of the six-foot-in- diameter hemlock tree that I hollowed out for a home. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She was in my large hollow, grumbling under her breath. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z In this hollow there were four does, with their backs to him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the thud of my heart against the hollow bowl of my stomach that made me eat a cluster of dandelion weeds grown to waist height. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The only sound was the shuffling of feet, an empty and hollow sound. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z Not ten yards from where he stood was the ideal refuge, a hollow in the base of a dead oak. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z I find my favorite hollow near the London Bridge. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z “Who’s out there?” he called, his voice shaky and hollow—it sounded as if he were speaking inside an insulated tunnel. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z He had dark hollows beneath his eyes, and the fragile, trembling build of someone who had missed several meals and didn’t seem to care. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z At the beginning of the competition, Fischer looked Abraham Lincoln-thin; his cheeks were hollow, and he had deep, dark circles under his eyes, all indicating that he might be ill. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Of the five witnesses who did appear, the first was the hollow- eyed Mr. Hickock. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though Celia was wearing six inch heels, she managed to fold herself down and put her face in the hollow of Dimple's neck. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The words rang hollow in her ears even as she said them. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z As she climbed down in darkness, I explained about the hollows that were chasing us. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The arm dropped and a hollow little boom bounced around in the car. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he took the roll of matting, and going as far from the house as he had strength, he laid the burden against the hollowed side of an old grave. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The cat leaped on to an overhanding rock, and as the hollow, raucous howl went ringing back and forth again the dogs turned questioningly, their eyes straining to seek the reality of the call. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I kicked the hollow of dirt under the swing without daring to look down. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z He turned to the left along the Hedge, and soon they came to a point where it bent inwards, running along the lip of a hollow. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I tried to keep my voice upbeat, but my stomach was hollow. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Presently the last drop of flame-colored liquid had run without splash or bubble into the hollowed stone. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z It sounded hollow and the crust wasn’t too soft, plus the tiny piece was burned. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z And then she’s gone, which is what I wanted, but somehow I am as hollow as my tube. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z The hobbits now left the tunnel-gate and rode across the wide hollow. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Then he looked at Selitos with sudden, desperate hope in his hollow eyes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z There were hollows in his crown where jewels used to be. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Dead,” said the girl, with a hollow look in her eyes. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z They came out upon a small open place where a giant spruce had crashed to the ground and left a hollow where the roots had been, filled now with drifted dry leaves and spruce needles. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z In the center of that stone there was a hollow, and into that natural small bowl Omakayas put the leaves that smelled summery and sharp, fresh and potent. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z The hollow tumbled away from us, grasping at empty space as it fell. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z As they approached the brook, toward the big tree in the hollow of whose roots they would make their summer home, the children ran ahead, shouting and laughing. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z “And got shot, and bombed, and eaten by hollows,” said Bronwyn. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Despite the groosling and the fish, my stomach's growling, and I know I'm going to have what we call a hollow day back in District 12. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Mark’s insides plummeted to some dark place and he felt hollow inside. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z And the meanness of the suggestion that he should leave Polly behind suddenly made all the other things the Witch had been saying to him sound false and hollow. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Maybe we could hide in the debris and the chaos around us, and with so much noise and distraction everywhere, the hollows would pass us by. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z His- eyes were sunk in deep pits, his close-cropped beard no more than a shadow across his hollow cheeks and bony jawbone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Xan sat cross-legged on the rough plank floor, and the baby lay in the hollow of her skirts. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The hollow was alive and well at the base of the wall, and busy punching holes in the rock with its tongues. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z It is presumably hollow but with no discernible hinges, no nails, no attachment points; it looks like a solid block of highly polished wood. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “Sideshows and peculiars go together like milk and cookies. Or hollows and wights.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “It’s dead, it’s dead,” Olive cried, “the horrible hollow is dead!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z He leaned against the depot wall then; he was sweating, and sounds were becoming outlines again, vague and hollow in his ears, and he knew he was going to become invisible right there. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z One of them raised the hollowed horn of a kudu bull to his lips and blew, to give courage to the hunters. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “It is the Lord’s will,” I agreed, but the words sounded hollow to my ear. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, almost without thinking, he dove into the hollow of the dead tree and snugged himself in. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z I glance over to the towering sycamore tree, the dark hollow. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z The two of you started collecting what remained of your beads, while I searched for the hollow in which I’d hidden our money. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z He wanted to reach out and touch it, though, to lift it off her neck and then let it settle back against the hollow of her throat. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “No,” Tayo said, feeling the hollow spread from his stomach to his chest, his heart echoing in his ears. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Neel slid the long stick up to his sister when they reached the hollow and shone the flashlight on her hands. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z When a shell lands in the trench we note how the hollow, furious blast is like a blow from the paw of a raging beast of prey. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The journal is not where I left it, deep in the hollow. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z The calls of conch shells and hollow cow horns were attempting to catch up to the insistent rhythm. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z “There’s no use,” she says, her voice hollow and small. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Farid caught a grasshopper in the hollow of his hand and watched it through his fingers. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z This is what would be left of Hazel Anderson once her whole body hollowed out, the empty shell of her cracked, and the pieces flew to the winds: Hazel has anger issues. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Though the drawing was done in black pencil, Roza’s smile blazed, her hair seemed to glow with dark, unearthly light, the hollow of her throat pulsed with a private invitation. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The recent rains had filled hollows in the rocks, and the little folds of the mountain were green with bear grass. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The ghost's hollow, haunting voice—a voice not unlike Falconer's—sent a shiver up my spine. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z The Americans and their guards and Campbell took shelter in an echoing meat locker which was hollowed in living rock under the slaughterhouse. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z "There might be room in my hollow tree if you want to hide it there," another said. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z He wore a patch over the hollow of his left eye. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Grain elevators are tall, hollow concrete tubes, like silos. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The thud of it on the hollow lid gave me a sick, black, empty feeling. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z "It is heavy as it needs to be to make you strong, and for the balancing. A hollow inside is filled with lead, just so. One hand now is all that is needing." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z At a far corner of Min’s yard he had dug a hollow just big enough to hold the bowl, and had found a large flat rock nearby to use as a cover. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z I pace among the severed arms and hollow feet, drinking blackness. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Because at home was my mother with her dead eyes and my little sister, with her hollow cheeks and cracked lips. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z He fought back a bitter stomach taste; the sweat was running down from under his arms, following the hollow ridges of his ribs. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Lina missed her parents with an ache that was as strong as what she felt for Poppy, only it was a hollow feeling instead of a full one. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z As the dwarf had done, she peered into the hollow trunk. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Amari led them to the darkest part of the forest—a place where three huge trees had fallen together, and the hollow beneath them was just big enough for the three tired travelers. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Once more they started, crawling from hollow to hollow, flitting behind such cover as they could find, but moving always in a slant towards the foothills of the northern range. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The man looked at them—a thin girl of ten with starveling hollows in her cheeks but with the chin still baby-round. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Other people slowly joined the group, and there were many hollow cheeks and deadened eyes. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Her heart was punctured; she would become a hollow shell. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “And now it is the wights, and undoubtedly their hollows, who are guarding them,” said Addison. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Her hair is matted and bloodied, pressed into the hollow of her crushed skull. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The structures in it are mostly hollow—the chateau, the cathedral, the market—but why bother to smash them all when one is missing, the very house he needs? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The Eagle has nested in the hollow on the other side of that mountain. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She told them about the hollow tree in the woods and how Ishmael and Hatsue had deceived the world for a number of years successfully. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Harsh sounds of chains and pulleys, like the workings of an ancient steel factory, echoed through the room, bouncing off the walls with a hollow, tinny whine. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z The bandage was still on her forehead but the rest of her face was little marked except for the hollow cheek on the side where the teeth were missing. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z There is no place more hollow, more soulless, than a school at night. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z The Xi remained here in Taninli, but the lesser fay retreated to their own hollows and mountains and forests. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The occasional hollow caw of one raven to another. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z But I retrieved the small bow and arrows he'd made me from a hollow tree. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The fog made things seem hollow and unattached. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Except, if they weren’t friends anymore, how did Madeline know about the journal in the sycamore hollow? How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z They looked and saw a little hollow in the grass, with a grassy bottom, warm and dry. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z “Yeah,” I say hollowly, “let’s provoke the woman who can force half of this compound to kill themselves. That sounds like a great idea.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z But there wasn’t much other noise—only the little noises of night on a riverbank, wind in the bare branches, the hollow rush of water beneath the damaged stone bridge. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Jacob’s hollow eyes gazed up at Michelangelo, but he did not reply. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Reproducing the Greek arguments faithfully, Maimonides contended that the hollow spheres that twirled about the earth had to be moved by something, say, the next sphere out. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “The bats,” said the boy in a hollow voice. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s when I realized that hollows can be a good thing for people, not just birds and animals. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Naomi breathed the words into the hollow of his neck. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z She has pigeon-soft brown eyes and feathery brown hair down to the hollow of her neck. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z A gust of wind blew through the ruins, making a hollow moan. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z An icy current wove through the air, carrying along with it hollow sighs and a swell of dull mutterings. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z It started as a hollow buzzing in my ears... an electric saw... for away. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Then, to keep at a distance dogs or men, he took a sharpened lance, and went to rest under a hollow rock where swine were sleeping out of the w ind and rain. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z When I stepped in, the hollow roar of water beating against the wall of a metal shower filled the room, along with an odor of cold sweat and soap. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “It remained where I had hidden it when I heard the Baron blundering through the forest toward me. Concealed inside a hollow tree.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “Let’s go out to that little hollow where we found Kehaar that morning,” said Silver. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z And how could anyone know about the journal inside the sycamore hollow, and how Gram and I took turns writing our stories there? How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Then the call came again, softly, insistently, from a clump of trees, one of which was a tremendous old oak—long since hollowed out, first by lightning and then by decay. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes it was all in big, slow terraces, and the water fowl who were flying along the top vanished in the hollows. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s why I was determined never to be surprised by another hollow. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z I didn’t care if they lived in a hollow log. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Once, long ago, in a garden in springtime, Ulysses had seen a squirrel made of stone: gray, hollow eyed, frozen. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z He scooped a little hollow and laid the puppy in it and covered it over with hay, out of sight; but he continued to stare at the mound he had made. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z He kissed the rapid pulse in the hollow of my throat and paused there for a moment, as though to savor the proof that I was alive. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The blurred child staring back at me looks hollow and distorted, not at all like the little girl in Phnom Penh whose neighbors called her “ugly.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The paddles that Velutha had made were hidden in a hollow tree. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A scatter of droplets beaded on the bruise, trickling down to gather in the hollow of his neck. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Hungry Joe was a jumpy, emaciated wretch with a fleshless face of dingy skin and bone and twitching veins squirming subcutaneously in the blackened hollows behind his eyes like severed sections of snake. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z In the sand she scooped out hollows for our bodies and sat down, waiting. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, sorry to let you down,” said Harry, his voice quite calm even though he felt hollow, inadequate. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Hale, who had an owlish face, stiff black hair, and small, alert eyes set in shaded hollows, had settled on the reservation nearly two decades earlier. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He’d dug out the dirt packed into the hollows of the strange mark in the flagstone, making the mark clearer. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The metal lamp swayed above like a pendulum, illuminating hollow faces, throwing shadows throughout the carriage. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z He patted her cheek and turned away from her wide, dark, pleading, hollow eyes. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The hollow was so well sheltered that he had even risked lighting a fire the previous night. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The glass echoed the wood in its hollow curve. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z A deep, hollow drumming throbbed over the crowded plain. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z The flat part of the stick he hollowed out with his knife till it was a little trough. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z They put panes in hollow windows and lights behind the panes. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z And if you wondered what Time sounded like it sounded like water running in a dark cave and voices crying and dirt dropping down upon hollow box lids, and rain. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Their favorite sleeping places were hollows under uprooted trees where they were sheltered from the wind, and able to burrow down among the drifted leaves for warmth. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Their human faces had sunken eyes and hollow cheeks. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The hollow very close now; the pain extraordinary. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z You can see it in their bones, their skin, the hollow look in their eyes. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z His eyes were hollow and glazed, and he barely flinched when Pax cleaned his neck once more. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z My body felt hollow, like my sluggish heartbeat was bouncing and echoing through my vacant, aching limbs. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “See how the hollow gourd rattles with stones inside it,” said Aunt Chipo. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z And as the far off hand of Quinn tightened its pressure in easy stages, the laughter grew forced, an element of hollow uncertainty entered, and people broke off to wonder. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The haunted, hollow look she’d seen when he had first woken up from surgery was still there. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The old dog stood for a minute, his heavy head hanging, and his tired body swaying slightly, then lay down on his side in the hollow. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Mind-pictures brought feelings, and feelings dragged out dramas from the hollows of her heart. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Nokomis went over to Tallow’s place and pounded some of the corn to meal with the hollowed log and great round stick that Tallow kept in her yard. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Walking around the other way, I was startled to hear a hollow, tinny music coming from the common rooms. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Beyond her, the monstrous bowl of wrought-iron curls sits hollow and still. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He had heard the hollow in my step as I walked across the room. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z HairySpiders dashed out of her hollow, scrambled down my trunk, and promptly fainted. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Aegeus went back to Athens before the child was born, but first he placed in a hollow a sword and a pair of shoes and covered them with a great stone. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Though his arms and legs were thin as reeds, his belly was swollen and hollow, and ached so much that he found he could not sleep. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z When we get to the glade, I return the book to the sycamore hollow. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z He made himself a beetle high in the rotten wood of the hollow tree and determined to stay there until he understood. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Soon, from the river’s sunbaked hollows, it was possible to buy Titanic carpets, and Titanic cloth, from bolts arranged in wheelbarrows. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z She gives a hollow laugh and releases me, then steps forward and grabs a pair of Mollies, twin swords as long as a woman’s forearm and wickedly sharp on either side. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z I stand on the porch, listening to the hollow sounds of the evening, gravel under Stuart’s shifting feet, dogs moving in the early darkness. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Mostly I feel hollow, like a shell of a person. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z She traced a finger from the hollow of his throat to his breastbone. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z I vacuumed books for epigrams, scraps of information, ideas, themes—anything to fill the hollow within me and make me feel educated. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I was still reeling from my encounter with the hollow. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The tears ran along the sides of Tayo’s nose and off his chin; as they fell, the hollow inside his chest folded into the black hole, and he waited for the collapse into himself. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The land was long ridges, with streams down in the dark hollows. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He glided a hand laxly into her loose hair, twisting those soft yellow strands around his thin fingers which felt fragile and likely to snap, as if made of hollow, unhinged porcelain. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They were sealed in the hollow heel of my boot. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He cut a little hollow space in the rock of another world, put all the tiny golden hairs into it, and replaced the rock before closing the window. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He smiles at me, and the smile seems hollow. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Newcomers without friends or family spend their first night in Thailand in the hollow, wooden church. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z You could stoop down and pick a fallen petal, crush it between your fingers, and you had there, in the hollow of your hand, the essence of a thousand scents, unbearable and sweet. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z It would lie always in its hollow like an enchanted thing, guarded by the woods, safe, secure, while the sea broke and ran and came again in the little shingle bays below. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z And as if in answer to her recognition, he took a deep breath, rolled his eyes back, and whispered, “Sing. Sing,” in a hollow voice before he melted away again. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Not the imprisoned moonlight welling through the marble walls of Minas Ithil long ago, Tower of the Moon, fair and radiant in the hollow of the hills. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He dismissed her, and Hazel poured concrete into the hollow parts. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Doxology was climbing the last rise before the hollow of the home ranch and the big feet stumbled over stones in the roadway. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The shallow hollow in the sandy floor where Fiver had lain was not quite cold: but Fiver was gone. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Beyond the hollow was the square top of the mountain and soon they were standing on it. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z We felt hollow in places and at certain hours we didn’t have names for in our languages. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Block after block of ceiling lights snapped on, electricity pouring through them after years of existing as nothing more than hollow, dusty veins. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Then the clicking of its spikes against the stone suddenly turned into a deeper, hollower sound. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z There were big rings of sweat under his arms and a pool of sweat in the hollow of his neck. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Kingshaw dropped his own stone, in silence, bent down, and began to scrape out a hollow in the ground. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z They bought a parka made of reindeer skin, because reindeer hair is hollow and insulates well; and the hood was lined with wolverine fur, because that sheds the ice that forms when you breathe. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He scooped out a hollow place, then said to Lupita, “Get in there and lie down on your stomach. Turn your head to the side so you can breathe.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Earth with thy folds, and hollows, and holes, into which a man may fling himself and crouch down. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Chin high, he staggers across, stumbling on the uneven riverbed, lurching into the hollows, straining against the current. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “I don’t understand it,” whispered Tendai as they rested in a hollow. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z And God, how hollow her eyes had looked. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z What was there to say that wouldn't sound hollow and empty? Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the boys threw a raft made of hollow reed flutes into the water and then dove in and emerged on top of the raft. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z My bones were hollow and my brainpan empty. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Ser Mandon put the point of his sword to the hollow of his throat and curled both hands around the hilt. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z At first it seemed all hollow and singular, but by the last fading light of the moonless sky we caught the outline of a ladder on the far wall. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Once in Tarbean I saw a young girl of no more than sixteen with the telltale hollow eyes and unnaturally white teeth of the hopelessly addicted. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I knew that was true, but I also knew the hollows would tear apart anything in their path, including a couple of normal girls. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z There's a hollow pop and then what looks like a shooting star flares suddenly to life over our heads, turning the night day-bright. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Mama told me she had seen her go up the hollow from the house, so weak she could hardly stand. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z It rolled across the ground with a hollow clang. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Day after day he went out as before, delving and scraping for food, as thin and dry as a hollow bamboo stick. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z I tried sensing for hollows, but there were too many faces, too many shadows. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The king’s eyes were blue bruises, sunk deep in a hollow face. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Alex reaches for him in return, presses one thumb into the hollow of his collarbone, slipping right under the knot of his tie. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Just as I was about to give the signal for her to drop the boulder, though, the hollow leapt from one hold to the next, and now she was standing in the wrong place. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Glimpses of Mother smiling and following along, giggles from Jenna, and hollow protests from Father punctuate the journey. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z We knocked on the walls, listening for a telltale hollow sound; we felt for hidden seams. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Soon the pumpkin was quite hollow and they were able to push the youngest boy inside it. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z The riders were as pale as the fairy woman on the frontispiece, and their faces were hollow skulls, their mouths gaping open. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She seemed to slip into some great hollow place within her, and her voice sank to a whisper. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Her tummy’s got a little fat on it, her cheeks aren’t so hollow as they were, out here starving her and Mister Johnny to death. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The hollows and wights would return for Miss Peregrine, and in ever-greater numbers. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z I sat opposite her, clasping the book I had just found inside the sycamore hollow. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Shadows gathered like bats in the steep hollows near her collarbone. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z You would never know it was hollow and had a secret sliding panel on its side. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z Fortunately, the hollow where Matt was hiding was deep. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Down a long flight of steps the Lady went into the deep green hollow, through which ran murmuring the silver stream that issued from the fountain on the hill. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z A few hours later we woke up sweaty and anxious and once more walked as fast as we could, given how exhausted and starving we were, in a kind of hollow desperate silence. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s this hollow pain that comes riding up into my stomach and chest. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z My thoughts start to drift back to my skin, and I make myself think instead about the story I started, the one that’s waiting for me in the sycamore hollow. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z My fingers, my hands, my arms, my neck, everything feels hollow. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z It is raining, and I am sitting in the hollow tree to keep dry. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z I hear a handful of dirt hit the hollow sounding coffin, and I bury my face in Dad’s side and cry quietly. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z The hollow eye sockets of the stone snakes seemed to be following him. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z After Roan’s death, electric lightbulbs began to appear on the outside of Osage houses, dangling from rooftops and windowsills and over back doors, their collective glow hollowing the dark. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Alex takes his hand, and Henry turns to face the chapel like a nervous postulant, his cheeks hollowed out in the low light, before pulling Alex into it. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Despite Yishan’s assured tone, she knew it was a hollow hope. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z My Dictionary says cavernous means filled with cavities or hollow areas. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d hoped to recruit the Heartrender Nina Zenik at some point, but now she looked like she might not last out the month—all jutting bones, dark hollows, and trembling hands. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z In the forest near Lwów was a beautiful old oak tree with a hollow large enough to sit in. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I feel hollow at the thought of Drew, almost dead at the hands of Edward. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z I have been here before choking in solitude, but this time when all the earth is hollow as a bell, I hold one end, ring it, and you come— a pale-skinned surprise, a friend. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The words come out hollow, they ring false, but without looking into his eyes, I can’t tell why. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Her voice is hollow, and I hate her for feeling anything for Jackson at all. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The scene before me was a hollow pretense of grandeur and gaiety. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z He looks hollowed out, like the first time I saw him up close, in the police station—as though someone has scraped away his insides, leaving a shell. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “When I picked her up, I could have sworn her bones were hollow.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The laboratory to which Mr. Loomis reported the next day was eighty feet underground, a place as big as a house, hollowed out of a mountainside of solid rock. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Another kept time on a small drum made from an animal skin stretched across a hollowed gourd. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Then, when Marshall discovered that the wooden base of the Diana statue was hollow, and one side was a little loose, they had a perfect secret vault for the storage of sacred records. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Many of the mirrors sit hollow and empty within their ornate frames. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z She could still hear the hollow rustle of his words as she squeezed back out through the opening and rushed up the path toward Egypt Town. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z As Haiyi swept, the pieces of the broken bowl clinked together and made a hollow sound. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Artemis saw the pain in the creature’s eyes as the hollow hypodermic plunged into her body. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z For every man of fighting age, Jon saw three women and as many children, gaunt-faced things with hollow cheeks and staring eyes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Then I realize from the hollow sound of her gun's click that her gun isn’t loaded. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Not the usual smile that I muster in here—the hollow, polite smile we all wear that says, Go along. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z His shoes were shod with silver, and they rang hollowly as he stepped over the threshold. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z His thumb slid down, and now it was stroking the hollow above her collarbone, then the flesh beneath it. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z He brought an earthenware jug up from underneath the bar, then set it on the bar with a hollow sound. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The little hollow in his collarbone stood out against his glowing skin. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z "Ah," I sighed, for in the hollow at the center, two drumsticks were stored. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Back of my head whacks into something hollow. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z After a while he found that he was approaching a small hollow, much like the one on Watership Down where he and Silver had found Kehaar. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The sound of the boots echoed hollowly off the walls. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is probably hollow. It must have contained whatever that blue stuff in your arm is. What happened after you were shot?” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z It couldn’t be, though: we were inside a loop, where hollows couldn’t go. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z On one side, Taran noticed, an alcove had been hollowed out; it was filled with roots, lichens, and mushrooms—the food stock, he guessed, of the melancholy inhabitant. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Harry interrupted, with an unpleasant, hollow sensation in the pit of his stomach. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z All his clothes were now rags and his cheeks were hollow. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z He had jumped off the wall and noticed the hollow sound. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Death is all over them—in the mottled patterns of their battered torsos, the eggplant purple on bloodless white; in the sinking, hollowed eye sockets. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z We were, in effect, climbing through the hollowed center of a gigantic ice cube. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z At the first hint of grey light under the skirts of the canopy of shadow they hid themselves again in a dark hollow under an overhanging stone. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z She cried, but not because the young man apologizing had reached her but rather because his words, hollow to her, could not bring Keith back. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z They were all thin limbs and hollow cheeks, as if they had stretched out a great deal in a short period of time. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Celaena awoke with a gasp, a hand on her throat, cold sweat sliding down her back and pooling in the hollow between her mouth and chin. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Once I’d seen a hollow I could track it, and if I focused on it in just the right way, I could anticipate its next move, in some felt-more-than-known, gut-instinctual way. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Archaide was a hollow planet, and the museum exhibits were all located beneath the surface. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Lydia leaned back into the hollow of Dill’s body, warm and snug against his chest. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Borne on the wind, the cloudburst drummed hollowly on the fat wet hills across the valley and moved out over the flat lands. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He kissed her, buried his face in the sweet hollow of her neck. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “Devoured by a hollow in some Welsh backwater!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The squawking of the gulls over the bay echoed like hollow laughter. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Bast eyed the color of his cheeks, smelled his breath, and lightly touched his forehead, his wrist, and the hollow of his throat above his heart. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z An amber pendant rested in the hollow of her throat. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Emma screamed and kicked at it with her other foot as the net came to a jolting stop, the pulley above too weak to raise all of us and the hollow, too. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “You have that big old grin on the outside, but inside you’re all hollow and empty.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z “There’s no other place he could be. I’ve looked all over it and there’s no other hollow anywhere.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The ecstasy he found in her had illuminated the dead tissues and outlined the hollow of his spirit. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The hollow feeling in my gut isn't hunger. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I strip a tough vine of its leaves, thread it through the hollow center, and tie the spile securely to my belt. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Words he had never meant to speak came tumbling out of him like mummers from a hollow horse. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I could feel his heart beating, but it beat only twice, very slowly, loud and hollow like the waves on the beach, and then no more. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z He unwrapped a hollow wooden ball with a loop of string attached on one side. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Suheyla snapped out of whatever faraway, hollow place she was lost in. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z And I experience the hollow feeling of complete loss, which is emptiness. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z She feels the gut-sock in the hollow spot where her ribs meet. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z I see a bear snoozing in a hollow log. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z She meant it, but she also felt angry and hollow inside, with this hot buzzing like bees. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He rapped his leg with his stick and it gave forth a hollow sound. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It was in fact a long time before all the rabbits had come back to the hollow in the middle of the field. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He looks hollow and unhappy but he’s definitely more peaceful. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Maddie asked, whipping a throw around her shoulders and tying it at the hollow of her throat. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I felt hollow and sick in my stomach and chest from the effort, and I held to the branches and waited. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z When no one was looking, I’d take the food and stick it in a small, hollow space underneath my booster seat. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z In fields, dells, and hollows, families terrified by what they read in the papers each day about the collapsing national economy nonetheless now began to think about Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Then I suppose you have a way to get past the horde of hollows who’ll be guarding their entrances as well!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Through all that the Reb cannon were firing steadily and smoke was filling up the hollow between the armies and no one could see the motion of the troops. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z After his hands slipped loose, his knees hit muddy ruts and there was screaming and the sound of bone crushing, hollow white skull bone beaten to bayonet edges by the jungle rain. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z And yet, the farther into this tunnel we walked, the more I was overcome by clammy, creeping dread—a feeling entirely apart from the one I sensed hollows with; this was simply a bad feeling. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Eye opened his lids wide and scanned the hills and hollows. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z That was followed a few seconds later by another hollow pop and sharp gunshot almost in unison. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But Emma could neither speak nor stand, and we were alone in the underground station but for two women in raincoats who were backing away, holding their noses against the hollow’s fetid stench. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z He rewards them for their kindness with a basket full of fresh bread and butter that magically replenishes itself and a hollow stone with a flame inside that never burns out. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Nor did Sam find any nook or hollow to shelter in: only bare stony slopes frowned over by the cliff, which now rose again, higher and more sheer as they went back. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “I hide in butter churn, breathe through reed of straw, while own brother killed in same house. After, I come to London to escape the hollows. But they come, too.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z It rang not like a bell, which was a hollow sound. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z I realised, too, that the car could climb no more, we had reached the summit, and below us stretched the way that we had come, precipitous and hollow. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I’m just getting up to return the journal to the sycamore hollow, where Madeline can read it, when I stop. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Black stopped struggling, though his hollowed eyes were still fixed on Scabbers, who was clamped tightly under Ron’s bitten, scratched, and bleeding hands. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z "You knock on it and flick its skin. Hear how this one sounds hollow, but this doesn't?" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Bob ladled some stew juice into a hollow gourd. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z All my residents are back where they belong, safe in their hollows. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He was now sixteen and had grown to be almost as tall as my father, but his cheeks were hollow and his clothes hung loosely on his bony frame. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z It was as if someone had slid a blade into her and with one quick twist hollowed her out, leaving nothing inside but a cold rush of air. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He had a contradictory physical presence, taking up space, a decent-sized kid, but hollowed out. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The "paints" used were chunks of red and yellow ocher ground into powder and applied with brushes or blown onto the surface through hollow bones. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z His eyes were sunk deep into his face, with dark hollows underneath them. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z He moved quietly up to the edge of the hollow just as the doe began to speak. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z "When I return with her heart, there will be years aplenty for all of us," she said, eyeing her sisters' hairy chins and hollow eyes with disfavor. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z When Zora spoke you were aware of the skin stretching over these cheekbones and hollowing out between her jaws, the tight mask it made, banshee-like, with her blue eyes piercing through above. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Something flopped to the ground behind him, landing with a hollow thump. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z They got up long enough to slurp at the water trough and then flopped down again, raising puffs of dust in their shallow hollows. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z It sounded stupid, high and hollow and quavering, a little boy's howl, not a wolf's. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The rhythm sounds normal but my heart feels very hollow. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He stared back, but his look was hollow, lacking any of his usual spark. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z We crawled around in the vast hollow pieces and the legs and the head. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Like I’m full and sort of hollow at the same time. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Restless with hunger, he wandered up the banks of the creek, investigating every rock and hollow, pushing his hopeful nose through tunnels of withered sedge and into the yielding earth of molehills. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Crying gently, she held the spoon under her eyes, carefully catching each tear, preserving their sad silver in the hollow of the spoon. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z But her stomach felt hollow and sour, and she couldn’t tell whether it was the early hour and her empty belly, or dread of the day to come. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z BaiMa’s steps made a hollow, mournful echo, and when the swallow stopped in front of a red carved door, they heard the unmistakable sound of weeping. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z I eased over and looked up into the dark hollow. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Where to begin,” says the doctor in a hollow tone. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z It’s been quiet the last few days; even the laughter of the littlest kids sounds hollow. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z The size did not disturb him so much as the face . . . the mouth especially, no simple carved slash, but a Jagged hollow large enough to swallpw a sheep. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “It had fallen into the mouth of one of the eagles. All the way down its throat and into its hollow belly. A hungry eagle indeed!” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z His steps inside sounded hollow, like a sandstone cave in the cliffs. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z None of them bothered us, but their hollow eye sockets followed us as we walked down the hall, toward the big set of doors at the opposite end. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z She was scarecrow thin, with hollow eyes and bloody feet. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z And though she wants to apologize, to make things right between them, she’s afraid that anything she says now will ring hollow. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “What’s changed about hollows that they can get into loops now?” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z His face still wore the long, weary look of depression, his eyes sunken and hollow. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Then he became still weaker, his face hollowed and darkened, his breathing became imperceptible. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “The phone melted,” he said, a hollow look in his eyes. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z We walk down a flight of narrow stairs where the echo of our footsteps layers over itself, dissonant and hollow. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z She did not pull away from him, and as he tipped her back and back and back, he watched the hollow above her collarbone and the lovely slope down to the neckline of her dress. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Before the train pulls out, he runs from car to car, looking into the hollows at the ends of the hoppers, where riders occasionally discard clothing. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Now she has lost all her color; her face is sunken and hollow. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Tree-ear laid armfuls of straw on the hillside, and there Min sat, the hollows under his eyes dark with exhaustion. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z But all three rabbits could sense that not far below them there lay a hollow space. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He thought how sorry he felt for Grover, stuck with his hollow victories. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Our hiking boots land on the crooked planks with hollow thumps. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z This time when the dimes dropped, the sound was hollow. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z They look for peculiars when they can, but a gobsmacking portion of their energy and effort is spent tracking down common victims for the hollows, animal and human, and then hiding the mess.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z It was as if, upon seeing the hollow, I’d planted a sort of homing beacon in it with my eyes. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z From the bathroom across the way, through its half-open door, drifted a humid scented air and a hollow dripping sound. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z She said nothing, but snuggled into the hollow of my chest. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z At this point it ran nearly from South-west to North-east, and on their right it fell quickly down into a wide hollow. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z When I took them off, both legs were just hollow fiberglass tubes. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Yet as the dusk deepened and darkness seeped into the hollows between the trees, Jon's sense of foreboding grew. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He raised his voice and knocked his empty mug hollowly on the top of the mahogany bar. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It was hollowed out well enough, but the exterior still looked like a lumpy tree. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Not much fine hollow ware. Plenty of buckles, spoons, and such.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The little rabbits turned round at the interruption and in a moment had tumbled up the side of the hollow, squeaking “Hazel-rah! Hazel-rah!” and jumping on Hazel from all sides. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z When we were done, Bando went down to the stream and cut some old dried and hollow reeds. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He grew thinner, his cheeks more hollow, his neck scrawnier. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Squatting down, I felt a brittleness come over me, a hollow sensation, as if someone could reach out and crush me like a Christmas tree ornament. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She spots flashes of The Taker in the dim grottos and murky hollows where the bears and the cougars might be. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “If there are hollows close by, they’ll sense it,” I said. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Tree hollows—holes in a trunk or branch—are not uncommon, especially in trees like me who’ve been around awhile. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Water ran into his cloudy gray eyes, and when he spoke, his voice was hollow: “Jigo isn’t here.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Alice’s dimly lit tree house was snug and better than a hollow tree because, when she awoke on warm days, Alice fed her. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z As the sounds of the chase grew fainter, Jemmy crawled out of the hollow root. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z There was a hollow place inside her where her fear had been. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “I’m just a kid from Florida. I probably got lucky when I killed that hollow.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z He shook his head again, and the earlocks danced and brushed against the ridge of his jaw and the hollow of his cheeks. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z It was a hollow threat, but it angered me all the same. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The hollows in her cheeks are deep, deathly. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z My talent for spotting hollows wasn’t much good without light to see them by. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Still others hollow out mangoes, drop their pesos inside, then pretend to be eating the fruit. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Before he knew what he was doing, Hazel stamped on the hollow roof. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z And far below, in the great hollow stone of the peach, the Glow-worm was lighting up the room so that the two spinners, the Silkworm and Miss Spider, could see what they were doing. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z The terror of the dreaming he had done on this bed was gone, uprooted from his belly; and the woman had filled the hollow spaces with new dreams. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He paused and went on in a hollow voice:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z He climbed up boulders big as boxcars and squeezed himself into a hollow space between them. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Near where he stood an old man squatted on his haunches beside a great slab of alabaster, examining and blowing at a small hollow in one corner of it. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z “Totally weird?” he said maliciously, mimicking my accent: suburban, hollow, flat. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The hollow drove its tongues into the ground and sprang upward. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The liquid was acrid and citrusy, but as soon as she swallowed it, she felt less hollow, less iced over on the inside. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The fences still buzz with news and gossip, and the mountains and hollows echo with the joyful clamor of childhood adventures. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Mother smells of lavender and warmth; she’s so beautiful even if her cheeks are too hollow, her mouth too dark with worries. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z They slept uneasily during the middle of the day, in some hollow of the land, or hidden under the tangled thorn-bushes that grew in thickets in many places. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The logo on his cap boasts hollowly, NO FEAR. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Harker was silent for awhile and then said in a hollow voice:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z His tongue would soon trace the oval of this rim and push into the hollow. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Only that there was a snuffling in the hollows at the base of a lovely throat. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, without warning, all the immunity wore off, and I felt the hollow, spooned-out space between my navel and breastbone begin to ache. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The intensity of the pain corresponded to the nearness of the hollow and the frequency of the hits with its strength. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Silver, as he started to move round the hollow, had come closer to the bird’s head. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Now he seemed to feel nothing at all, just a strange hollow space under his ribs that refused to go away. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z But hers or not, those words, which had so comforted and healed me, were hollow. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I hated the hollow sound of the rain pattering on the roof. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Somehow, they saved it from amputation, but it was a hollow victory. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she spoke one sentence—her voice hollow and haunted, but clear. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z A flush of excitement was rising up his neck into his hollow cheeks; he looked fevered. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z As soon as it was knotted, Pima’s mother motioned him and shouted, “Get up into the trees! There’s a rock hollow higher up! It should give shelter!” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z And then a little finger of smoke rises from the hollow. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z And then she said, “I feel really sad. I feel all hollow.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z I put the rounded end of the stick into the little hollow and start spinning it twixt my hands, pressing hard into the wood. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z His heavy boots sounded hollowly on the wooden landing outside, then there was nothing. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z They heard of the Great Barrows, and the green mounds, and the stone-rings upon the hills and in the hollows among the hills. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Cressen owned no hollow rings, such as the poisoners of Lys were said to favor, but a myriad of pockets great and small were sewn inside the loose sleeves of his robe. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It took my eyes a moment to spot the hollow. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “I played like a sack of dragon dung,” said Ron in a hollow voice when the door had swung shut behind Ginny. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z She came away humiliated, and felt a hollow sensation spreading in her stomach. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Cersei had managed to buy herself three hollow drums; they would make all the fierce booming sounds she required, but there was nothing inside. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z His voice was hollow, and so were his eyes, his sunken cheeks. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The camp was eerie in those hollow hours of early morning. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z But as I dust myself off and look inside the sycamore hollow today, I feel my heart leap. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Her sister had married the ideal in masculine beauty, the thin scholar with the hollow cheeks and the long fingers. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t think I can do that,” I say hollowly. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z As I listened through the wall, a hollow space opened within me. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z I crawled under the house and crept into a dark hollow of a brick chimney and balled myself into a tight knot. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z As it bent sharply round the tower, it entered a narrow defile and passed not far below the hollow where he stood. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Portions of the hedge were nearly hollow, a green shell of living branches, leaving enough room to crouch comfortably. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “I have only been an Elder-in-Training for five years now, but I am already learning..He paused. “Ever so much,” he finished in a hollow voice. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z It filled the church, as though the church had merely become a hollow or a void, echoing with the voices that had driven her to this dark place. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Drinking deep from the water jar, he yanked his sash tight around his hollow middle and let himself out the gate. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Time could not wreck the perfect symmetry of those walls, not the site itself, a jewel in the hollow of a hand. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I ran to the hollow tree and got my gun, then doubled back along my own trail and moved north, crawling through thick brush and saplings. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Dozens of skinny cats, sliding away, their flanks hollow as spoons. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Couldn’t I be like Grandpa Portman, who for fifty years had lived and thrived and fended off hollows outside the loop? Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z I’ve already stowed my bow and arrows in a hollow log in the woods. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z They tripped over bushes and slid down hollows as they struggled to reach the lights of Vainona. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “He’s in that hollow limb. See— that one way up there. That’s why I couldn’t come home. I was afraid he’d get away.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Ivette leaned back on the bed, her body moving in rhythm with the song’s mix of bongo drums and the distinct hollow sound of the claved. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z A mile down Main was a large hollow in the mountains, formed where two creeks intersected. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She did not even have words, only a feeling, a terrible hollow feeling, as if everything inside her had been scooped out raw. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Fascinating case. Seems he never lost his taste for the fresh stuff, though he’d not been a hollow for many years.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Powell’s first thrust misses, making a hollow thud as it slams into the headboard. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Aragog clicked his pincers furiously, and all around the hollow the sound was echoed by the crowd of spiders; it was like applause, except applause didn’t usually make Harry feel sick with fear. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z He is the Baba of my childhood, Toophan agha, the towering specimen of Pashtun might, not the withered man under the blankets, the man with the sunken cheeks and hollow eyes. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Down a hollow, round the bend, I came across a thatched cottage made of sooty bricks and crooked timber. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z He’d been so quiet, his voice sounded odd, especially with the hollow echo the Maze walls created. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Walnuts and hickory nuts were dropping to the ground in the Big Woods, and squirrels were scampering busily everywhere, gathering their winter’s store of nuts and hiding them away in hollow trees. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z And now she replaces him with another man just as hollow. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The words fell with a hollow flatness on to Jay Cee's desk, like so many wooden nickels. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z He sat down and began striking them together with a hollow knock. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Or slip my feet into the hollow casts of feet and lurch in like something from a mad scientist movie. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z In her dream, Piper flew above the Parthenon - the ancient temple of Athena, the left side of its hollow shell encased in metal scaffolding. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He would occasionally escape from his cage, wander around the house, and eventually climb up inside the hollow center post of the dining-room table and go to sleep. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘It will be quicker so. The ground is firmer in the Eastemnet, where the chief northward track lies, across the river, but Shadowfax knows the way through every fen and hollow.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z They both looked so old—their eye sockets hollowed, the skin sagging from their exhausted faces. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z The chamber into which she had stepped was spacious—at that level, almost half of the huge trunk was hollow—and clean, but the floor was extremely rough. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z The mountain is white, the wind blows, the snow is hard packed, but spring is beginning in their hollow maple. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z A hollow of dead brush where flowers used to bloom. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The trouble was that coal silk wasn’t as warm as proper fur, no matter how much it was padded out with hollow coal-silk fibers. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z One of the garrons whickered and pawed at the thin stony soil of the hollow where they had taken shelter. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z There are empty well-wishes and hollow praises of her father’s talents. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “Hundred years ago, when hollows first born, they strike my home first. Everything destroy. All in village killed. Old woman. Baby. All.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Sometimes when I did that I actually felt like I was flying, soaring into the night sky over Coalwood and through the dark valleys and mountain hollows that marched away in the moonlight. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z But the penny in the hollow of my throat is warm to the touch, and I know that this ain't the end. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The sounds of fighting, the far-off booming of the artillery, the hollow, bass-drum sound of explosions echoing off the mountains became a constant thing. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They made empty, hollow, drowning sounds as they sank. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z She sipped the last of the river from the hollow of his navel. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The squirrels would be curled in their nests in hollow trees, with their furry tails wrapped snugly around their noses. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Tattered and grimy clothes, dirty hair, hollow gazes—the crowds attention was entirely fixed on the two newcomers. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z She nods, trying to slow down, but I know how hard it is when you’re that hollow. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Master picked up the paper and folded it, so that one edge touched the other, leaving a hollow between. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z In confrontation, a wizard should trick the Kappa into bowing—if it does so, the water in the hollow of its head will run out, depriving it of all its strength. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z To resist that hollow ache that sometimes tricks me into thinking I don’t matter. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z It was hollow; he held it to his mouth and made it whistle. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Frodo lay half in a dream, imagining that endless dark wings were sweeping by above him, and that on the wings rode pursuers that sought him in all the hollows of the hills. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z They were home to more than three score living singers and the bones of thousands dead, and extended far below the hollow hill. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z As soon as I'm in the trees, I retrieve a bow and sheath of arrows from a hollow log. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z When he looked back up at me I saw pity staring at me with hollow eyes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It grows larger as it comes closer, shining against the side of Four’s face, creating a shadow in the faint hollow beneath his cheekbone. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Luke walked home slowly, his legs heavy and his stomach hollow, staring at the sky. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z When I told him Astelle was alive and well, for a while nothing but an occasional muffled loudspeaker announcement came down the hollow line holding us together. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z They were like the eyes of the animals at the natural history museum, who were hollowed out and stuffed and posed and placed in some habitat and made to look like they were still alive. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Just inside the little door in the hollow log Pa built a fire of tiny bits of bark and moss, and he laid some of the chips on it very carefully. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The eyes were a pair of vacant hollows beneath a jutting brow. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z In the hollow below, Bigwig seemed to be drawing to a close. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z His eyes gave me a hollow look and no recognition at all registered in them. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The inside of the giant sphere was completely hollow, and its curved interior surface served as the club’s bar and lounge area. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z We rush down the hill toward the glade and the sycamore hollow to see if my pen pal has written the next chapter of our story. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z I watch in disbelief as he raises a fist and heaves it into the back of the clay man, leaving a hollow that I feel on my own spine. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Even from behind the curtain, I can hear Elizabeth’s brother laughing, her confident voice in reply, and the sounds pull me back to that lonely, hollow feeling I always get on Halloween. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z And the answer always came back, like the hollow, clattering echo of a stone tossed down a dry well: Not much of a man at all. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He visualized each piece of his own skull, fingering each curve, each hollow, testing its thickness for a final thin membrane worn thin by time and the witchery of dead ash and mushroomed bullets. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z This forehead with its hollow temples, this mouth that now seems all teeth, this sharp nose! All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z But Pa said there was lots of honey left for the bees, and there was another large, hollow tree near by, into which they could move. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z We both watched it move toward the opening over the hay pile, the steady noise of glass over and over and over soft barn wood, a hollow sort of noise. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z She wiped her eyes and said in barely a whisper, “I feel like a broken drum—hollow, crushed, unable to make a sound.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Barrow-wights walked in the hollow places with a clink of rings on cold fingers, and gold chains in the wind. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The fire in the hearth gave a somber orange cast to his skin and put deep shadows in the hollows of his eyes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Within a minute the crack of rifles, the whine of ricocheting bullets, the smash of pulverizing rock echoed and rang the length of the mountainside and along the hollow gulch behind. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone advanced from the sea of faces, someone tall and gaunt dressed in deep black, whose prominent cheek-bones and great hollow eyes gave her a skull’s face, parchment-white, set on a skeleton’s frame. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z My forehead pressed into the hollow of Dad’s shoulder, his shirt smells sickly sweet, like cheriy cough syrup from the pharmacy, but I don’t care. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z My cheeks are hollowed out by bronze blusher. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The spot where Peach was is still there, still open and hollow, but there are new chambers in her heart that fill her up, make her feel whole in a way she didn’t before. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Tuve’s version was made from copper and wire wound about a hollow three-foot glass tube submerged in a pressurized vat of oil to suppress sparking. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Next I collected dry wood from the hollows of trees and under canopies. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Inside, the cooks were ladling out beef-and-barley stew, thick with carrots and onions, served in trenchers hollowed from loaves of yesterday’s bread. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z With a hollow feeling where his stomach should have been he stared miserably about him. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z "Where is it?" he demanded, in that harsh and hollow voice. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Pike looked down at the hollow thump as the lute case fell flat against the ground. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The great racetrack was now a hollow, rattling place. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He combed the surface smooth with his fingers and renewed the lines and hollows that told him where everything was. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He was startled by the sound of a deep, hollow voice booming and a banging on a wooden table. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The two most common — strings and hollow tubes — will be discussed below, but first let's finish discussing what makes a good standing wave container, and how this affects music theory. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z He had a sense of enormous unnatural fragility, like hollow glass. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Leaning over the pond, she saw in the glassy water the hollows of her cheeks. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z His claws made a faint hollow sound on the wood, so there must be water underneath. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The hollow, mad eyes of the monster were full of malice. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “Yes,” said Hermione with a hollow smile, “but it would be excruciatingly painful.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z He was suddenly hollow; his fingers loosened and fell from the reins, slippery with sweat. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps not, but he could hear, for now a deep round voice, a voice like an organ tone, echoed out of the hollow trunk: “Who is standing outside my house?” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Then her face looked at me through a hollow door and I cried out and she had gone. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Then suddenly with a deep-throated call a great horn blew, and the blasts of it smote the hills and echoed in the hollows, rising in a mighty shout above the roaring of the falls. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z But as the buffalo snored loudly, Minli could see the bowl-shaped hollow in the hay was empty. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z We laughed like mad, strangely giddy, half in disbelief that we’d made it this far—across the water, through the woods, past snarling hollows and death squads of wights, all the way to London. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z His warm-hued face was square, owing its shape to the eminence of his angular jaw, which carved out two perfect hollows on either side of his chin. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a hollow metal tube, tapered slightly at one end. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z He takes advantage of the moment to kiss the column of Henry’s throat, the hollow at his collarbone, the knot of his Adam’s apple. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Mosca had taken the toolbox away from Victor before he left, but the detective always had a bit of wire and some other useful items in the hollow heel of one of his shoes. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Dave climbed a ladder and peered into my hollows as well as he could. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z A numbness in a numbness hollowed into a numbness... Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Bloom wanted to say, No, don’t tell them that, because they can’t, but he couldn’t say it; he laughed hollowly and could not really think of a proper way to react at all. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The hollow pieces were barely taller than an inch, and the set came with a folding cardboard chessboard that had red and black squares. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z In the midst of calling Jesus they heard the hollow clang of the ambulance bell struggling up the hill, but not the “Help me, ya’ll” that the dying woman whispered. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I take out the journal and slip it right into the hollow of Kalinda’s desk, next to her collection of erasers and used staples. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The boys went to a flat hollow in a stone. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Each time she inhaled, the hollows near her collarbones grew steep and filled with shadows. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “I was a lord, by right of birth. I want no hollow titles.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It was deep and hollow, like someone whispering from inside the barrel of a cannon. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The owl paused, turned away from her and looked again at the entrance to his hollow; the patch of light it admitted was growing steadily dimmer. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z One of these paths ended at a clod with a natural hollow underneath it In the hollow—again with the strange appearance of aimless purpose—he found two dead ants. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z As if hinged, the boys skull hung open, and the hollow space inside was crowded with familiar faces. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z When the figure gets to the tree hollow, it stops, pulls out the journal, and flips through the pages. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z The boot thumps and the sound of dragging dulled as they moved from the hollow barn floor to the solid earth outside. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z The plastic was cracked on the back of one leg, revealing a hollow space, but the arms and legs still turned. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Often said to look like a monkey with fish scales instead of fur, it has a hollow in the top of its head in which it carries water. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Although he could not see into the hollow, he knew that there was some creature in it—something fairly big. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Water stood in shallow pools on each stair, in the hollow worn into the stones by years of footsteps. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z They made hollow pinging sounds when they rolled against one another. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z In the purple light of Diocletian’s scepter, the hollow eye sockets seemed to blink. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The streets hollowed out, corridors; the trees blackened. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z They lit a fire in a hollow, down among the roots of a spreading hawthorn, tall as a tree, writhen with age, but hale in every limb. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He began to carve thick chunks of charred meat off the bone as Tyrion hollowed out two heels of stale bread to serve as trenchers. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z My father was sitting at the table, his face ashen, his cheeks hollow, his eyes red, looking as he had when he had visited me in the hospital. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z We huddled in the dark hollow under dark trees, in the snow. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Her voice was hollow, but I was startled to hear her speak at all. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z It was surprisingly light—as if its bones were hollow, or there were nothing inside of it. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z From the inside, that raised portion is a hollow three-story room with empty spaces in the walls instead of windows. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z "I do leave it alone," affirmed the accused hollowly. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Seeing that he was game, he took a final look at the strange white back and then went straight up to the edge of the hollow. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z On the stage, Mr. Shakespeare gave the cue in his hollow ghost's voice: "Adieu, adieu, adieu. Remember me." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Out of the hollow pipe spurted a boy. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Jessie did not come around anymore, she was fishing the rewarding waters of the open stream, she was returning to a tree hollow full of babies. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Laura watched him do this, and then she watched him hang the meat on the nails in the hollow log. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z It was about the shape of a corncob, only a little larger and hollowed out so that it could carry a bobbin or quill of weft thread. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Despite this, the distraught listeners could still make out the hollow thud of bull hook hitting flesh, again and again and again. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z I caressed his cheek, delicately stroked his eyelid, the purple shadow in the hollow under his eye. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z She found a small hollow in a stump and squeezed inside. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z After all, I'd saved nearly the whole of my New York salary, so I could just about afford it But the hollow voice said, "You better count me out." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The hollow bolted around the bend, using its muscular tongues like legs, its atrophied human limbs hanging useless. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Broad smiles and hollow laughter were undermined by trembling legs and shaking hands. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z They reached through the nostrils of the pink plaster gnomes and blossomed in their hollow heads, giving them an expression half surprised, half sneeze-coming. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Smokes and steams drifted in sullen clouds and lurked in the hollows. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He circled in the hollow under the branch, looking for higher ground, and then jumped again. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z His cheeks were hollow, his eyes had lost their spark. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z It sank to half its length and stopped with a hollow wooden sound. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I see him in my mind’s eye, huddled in a dark prison cell, his face hollow, his body shaking. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z In a little hollow on top of one of the roof beams in the attic. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The groaning in his breathing was becoming more hollow. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Hake handed fen a hollow heel of bread filled with burnt bacon and chunks of salt fish warmed in bacon grease. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z A few seconds before she took the jump across the gap, the metal-detector lights winked out The board dropped away, and her stomach seemed to go with it, leaving a hollow feeling inside. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z It was like a beautiful roller-coaster ride in slow motion, with no noise, no banging around, no hollow feeling in the pit of the stomach. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z That morning they lit a fire in a deep hollow shrouded by great bushes of holly, and their supper-breakfast was merrier than it had been since they set out. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z For a while this was fun, but then a hollow feeling began to grow inside Matt. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z While the others talked, I turned my focus inward, trying to sense the hollows. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Suddenly the chapel felt oppressive - thousands of hollow eye sockets staring at Nico. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He would never have seen it with his eyes alone, but in the web of light he could peer past the bone into the hollows of the skull. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He stood up and opened a large drawer, in which were arranged in order a number of hollow cylinders of metal covered with dark wax, and said:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z As he pushed himself free of the table and landed on the floor, the camera slid from his shoulder and hit the cement with a hollow, cracking sound. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The dead hollow lay just feet away, its tentacles splayed like starfish arms from beneath the boulder that had crushed it. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The earthen ghosts closed in - a sea of misshapen faces with hollow eyes. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z She went straight to the opossum hollow, where she proceeded to scold Flash as she snuggled him close. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z They were tiny—both fit into the hollow of his palm. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z As he talked he wired the block of charcoal firmly to one end of the stone, then began measuring snippets of metal into the hollow in the charcoal. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z The dollar coin was fake and hollowed out. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I was no longer sensing the left-behind residue of a hollow, but the active presence of one. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z But when I come to a stop, breathless beside the sycamore tree, I see that the journal has indeed been returned to the hollow. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Her throat constricted as those fingers, cold, so cold, traced the length of her jaw, the curve of her ear, the hollows of her neck, where a pulse fluttered like a dying moth. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z I don’t know what he’s thinking and it makes my bones feel hollow. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z The wind had risen, cold and biting as a winter gale, but the forest opened a little, and as the ground dipped, they found themselves in a protected hollow in a glade of alders. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z That night in bed, I thought of the way dappled sunlight had danced in Soraya’s eyes, and of the delicate hollows above her collarbone. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z It was tucked away in the hollow, as if someone had hidden it there. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Somewhere to the north of London lived a man called Baker who had never heard of us, but he held our future in the hollow of his hand. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Only the hollow, formal, intellectual definitions of the separate terms. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The snow packed under his feet with a hollow sound. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Overhead, I hear the trilling of birds calling to one another as they roost for the night and see glowing lights kindle in hollow knotholes as sprites come awake. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z But her eyes were too hollow, too depthless, to be just about her anger at his milk theft of weeks ago. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Good evening!” he repeated, in a voice low and hollow as an echo. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z A small slack dam finally let loose in a hollow near Six. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She could sit in the hollow and float along—but it would probably flip over with her inside. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The rain pattered on the roof with a hollow sound, and tapped upon the boarded windows. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “Hagrid has never sent men into our hollow before,” he said slowly. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Her voice is tiny and hollow, and it occurs to me that she’s probably going to cry. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The hollow had nearly closed the distance between us. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “What are the hollows for?” he asked Zahotep at last, more to fight inattention than because he wanted to know. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z But when Lauren stormed out, Maya realized that she hadn’t left anything behind, and what used to feel like a victory now felt like a sad, hollow loss. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z “The bloke who may or may not have been eaten by a hollow—do you know where they’re keeping him?” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The pain scoured him hollow, left him without breath, like a kick to the heart. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z She herself was smoothing out a paddle to use in stirring the syrup, and just the day before Deydey had started hollowing a peeled, smooth piece of basswood for a trough. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z They sat dispersed in that hollow, huge, dusty blindness. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z It was hollowed out of the ground with tunnels leading out on all sides. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z But it was enough for me to see the bruises on her face, her red-rimmed eyes, her hollow mouth from which trickled a spike of blood. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Mazes in the nodules on murex shells and in the textures of sycamore bark and inside the hollow bones of eagles. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Instead of burning quickly, the green chips smoldered and filled the hollow log with thick, choking smoke. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z One of his thumbs slipped into the hollow of her ear. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of them were round, but I found two with hollow places in the center which I deepened and broadened by rubbing them with sand. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z An oblong of blackness relieved with brilliant spangles hung before them and there was the hollow sound of surf on the reef. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z “When Miss Anderson sang the simple spiritual ‘Hear de Lambs a-Cryin’ in her deep, hollow, subterranean register . . . you felt it up and down the spinal column,” wrote New York Herald-Tribune critic Alan Rich. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z Together they watched the molten puddle run from the hollowed charcoal into the stone mold to which it was wired. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z I made a place for fire in the floor of my house, hollowing it out and lining it with rocks. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z In addition to glancing at her face he glanced at the strawberry between her breasts, and the golden brown hollow in her throat. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The crawlway was a narrow, square, cold tunnel hollowed out beneath the flight controls, and a large man like Yossarian could squeeze through only with difficulty. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “Come on ...” the other demon said urgently, her voice sounding hollowly from behind the rows of pointed teeth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z As before, the bullets ring hollow and hit nothing, but we’re not any less frightened. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z His words floated down to me, hollow and echoing. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z She could hear so clearly now the insincerity that had always lurked beneath, the hollow, false assurances. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Then again, I had to keep reminding myself, I wasn’t normal; and as long as hollows were hunting me, any life lived outside the loop would almost certainly be cut short. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Whole blocks were abandoned, buildings blackened and hollowed out by fires set by arsonists—many of whom were in the employ of landlords looking to cash out of the deteriorating ghetto. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z That hollow ache I carried during the early months of internment had shrunk, over the years, to a tiny sliver of suspicion about the very person I was. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The workroom faucet dripped a hollow sound into the big stainless-steel sink. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Its hollow face mask turned back to Leo. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He hollowed something in their language and everybody began to pipe down just a hair. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The noises were hollow, but the threats they implied were not. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Through their mouth holes, they made hollow whistling noises, like someone blowing across empty soda bottles. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z She served it in a trencher hollowed out of a stale loaf. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z |
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