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There was a last rumble, the hollow sound of a cask which is being filled; then deep silence fell.
He violently set himself to hollow out the slate with the hook of the lamp, while she helped him with her nails.
She pressed her poor shrivelled hands against her breasts, her breathing was deep and hollow, a continuous tearing moan, as though tongs were tearing her stomach.
They merely bent down and drank from the hollow of the hand, and that very frequently, parched by a thirst which all this water could not quench.
One of the Nautilus's men presented me with a streamlined rifle whose butt was boilerplate steel, hollow inside, and of fairly large dimensions.
We scaled rocks that crumbled behind us, collapsing in enormous sections with the hollow rumble of an avalanche.
A few have heard hollow noises that announced some struggle of the elements far below, others have hauled in volcanic ash hurled above the waves.
Just then a hollow explosion was audible.
The blue of the heavens suffused her, the air was whirling in her hollow head; she had but to yield, to let herself be taken; and the humming of the lathe never ceased, like an angry voice calling her.
The blind man sank down on his haunches, with his head thrown back, whilst he rolled his greenish eyes, lolled out his tongue, and rubbed his stomach with both hands as he uttered a kind of hollow yell like a famished dog.
Gradually, her moaning grew louder; a hollow shriek burst from her; she pretended she was better and that she would get up presently.
One golden morning of a sunny day, I leant against the low stone wall that guarded a little village church, and I smoked, and drank in deep, calm gladness from the sweet, restful scene - the grey old church with its clustering ivy and its quaint carved wooden porch, the white lane winding down the hill between tall rows of elms, the thatched-roof cottages peeping above their trim-kept hedges, the silver river in the hollow, the wooded hills beyond!
Existence seemed hollow and uninteresting.
"My son," said the father in a hollow voice, "God is as merciful as He is just; if I threw the cup of salvation from my lips when a youth, He graciously offers it to me in mine age.
This unfeeling communication had no effect on the peddler, who listened with gasping breath to every sound from the room of his parent until he heard his own name spoken in the hollow, sepulchral tones of death.
The muscles of the peddler's face were seen to move, and as the first clod of earth fell on the tenement of his father, sending up that dull, hollow sound that speaks so eloquently the mortality of man, his whole frame was for an instant convulsed.
"Washington can see beyond the hollow views of pretended patriots.
"My strength is not in the things of this life," said the divine, speaking in a hollow, sepulchral voice.
Every step that you take leaves that hated gallows behind; and every dark hollow, and every shapeless rock in the mountains, offers you a hiding place from the vengeance of your enemies.
This pantomime occupied the time they were passing a hollow, and concluded as they rose another hill.
The Americans had to descend into a little hollow, and rise a hill on its opposite side, to approach the enemy.
The English were formed in a hollow square, which contained their wounded, who were far from numerous, and were marching steadily across a very uneven country as the dragoons approached.
Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.
Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all.
Or would she turn coldly away like all the hollow world?
He soon struck wood that sounded hollow.
Three miles below town the ferryboat stopped at the mouth of a woody hollow and tied up.
All the news that could be gained was that remotenesses of the cavern were being ransacked that had never been visited before; that every corner and crevice was going to be thoroughly searched; that wherever one wandered through the maze of passages, lights were to be seen flitting hither and thither in the distance, and shoutings and pistol-shots sent their hollow reverberations to the ear down the sombre aisles.
The captive had broken off the stalagmite, and upon the stump had placed a stone, wherein he had scooped a shallow hollow to catch the precious drop that fell once in every three minutes with the dreary regularity of a clock-tick--a dessertspoonful once in four and twenty hours.
Then the colonel did a wise stroke; for he reckoned that this would stave off the cavalry for five minutes, so he wheeled us into line, and got us back into a deeper hollow out of reach of the guns before they could open again.
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