Hollow

Famous quotes containing the word hollow:

“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)

“The cloakroom pegs are empty now,
And locked the classroom door,
The hollow desks are dimmed with dust....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“While the hollow oak our palace is,
Our heritage the sea.”
—Allan Cunningham (1784–1842)