Hollow

Famous quotes containing the word hollow:

    “And now the winter sea:
    Within her hollow rind
    What sleek facility
    Of sea-conceited scop
    To plumb the nether mind!”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day’s wine to La Guillotine.”
    —Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

    “Darker grows the valley, more and more forgetting:
    So were it with me if forgetting could be willed.
    Tell the grassy hollow that holds the bubbling well-spring
    Tell it to forget the source that keeps it filled.”
    —George Meredith (1828–1909)