He looked up the hollow within the wrecked staircase, but saw nothing.
Finnegan may have struck the stairs and rolled down, but the gun went down the hollow within and killed the captain.
They did so, and Mr. Clarkson ascended to the ragged end of the hollow stump and looked down.
They journeyed onward unmolested until they came to Ash Hollow in the land of the warlike Sioux.
Within the hollow over the stone barrier lies Nansen's Lake, even more frigid in its ice-sheath, more palely green in the little patch of water which the sun has laid bare.
It returns a hollow sound--too hollow for aught to be inside it!
From its huge hollow trunk a buttress, horizontally projected, affords a convenient seat for two, making it the very beau ideal of a trysting-tree.
She breaks out into a laugh, hollow and heartless as was ever heard in an allee of the Jardin Mabille.
Not only is his apparel out of repair, but his constitution too, as shown by hollow cheeks and sunken eyes, with crows feet ramifying around them.
The tether at Honath's neck twitched, and then his captors were soaring in zig-zag bounds down into the hollow toward the Judgment Seat.
A small gust of wind whipped out of the hollow above the glade of fan-palms, making the network under the party shift slightly, as if in a loom.
This' was a hollow in the sandy soil, about four feet across and rimmed with a low parapet of earth--evidently the same earth that had been scooped out of its center.
They followed its course cautiously into the foothills, their throats as dry and gritty as the hollow stems of horsetails.
Strange and fantastic forms rose to the surface, and beckoned him to approach; dark gleaming eyes peered from the water, and seemed to mock his hesitation, while hollowmurmurs from behind, urged him onwards.
His cheeks were hollow and livid; his eyes were sunken, and their sight was dim.
Of the many who once crowded round him in all the hollow friendship of boon-companionship, some have died, some have fallen like himself, some have prospered—all have forgotten him.
In like manner his love-poetry and that of his courtiers rings hollow in our ears.
A calm then followed for several hours, causing the ship to roll heavily in the hollow of the sea.
This is accomplished by continuously agitating the mash by mechanical means with hollow plungers that are filled with ice or cold water, and which at the same time serves to aerate the mash.
A great terror cowed her, like a hand of ice at her heart, a terror not for herself, but for those away there, in the green hollow by the three stone-pines.
It was situated in a grassy hollow surrounded by dense trees, some five miles or more from the Terra Vergine, on the north bank of the river.
Our evening meal was over, and we sat around our campfire just as the sun was hiding himself behind the western highlands, when, from a little hollow in the forest behind us, and but a short way off, we heard the call of a raccoon.
A black squirrel came hopping along with his mouth full of beech nuts, and running nimbly up the tree on which I was perched, and out upon one of the great limbs, deposited his store in a hollow he found there.
It was a warm afternoon, and the air was calm; not a breath stirred the leaves on the old trees around us; the forest sounds were hushed, save the tap of the woodpecker on his hollow tree, or an occasional drumming of a partridge on his log.
He had one of those foolish things, just invented, a hollow butt of hickory; and the finial ring of his spare top looked out, to ask what had happened to the rest of it.
The rapid water scarcely showed a break; but a bubble sailed down the pool, and the dark hollow echoed with the music of a rise.
Gases begin to be developed and distend the abdomen and hollow organs and to form under the skin in the subcutaneous and intermuscular tissue.
Sand or mud in the hollow of the nails and excoriations of the fingers are also regarded as probable, not certain, signs, since each of these might have occurred either before or after death.
The lower electrode was in this case attached to the lower part of the back of the chair, and projected forward at a level with the hollow of the sacrum.
Dislocation may be still further assured if a hollow wooden or leaden ball be placed over the knot close to the neck, thus forming a fulcrum to throw the spinal column out of the perpendicular line at the point of pressure.
Gases are formed, not only in thehollow organs of the abdomen but also in the skin.
Within the hollow crown / That rounds the mortal temples of a king, / Keeps Death his court.
Nox atra cava circumvolat=--Black night envelopes them with her hollow shade.
The strong torrents, which in their own gladness fill the hills with hollow thunder and the vales with winding light, have yet their bounden charge of field to feed and barge to bear.
Give me again my hollow tree, / A crust of= 10 =bread, and liberty.
It was the nightingale, and not the lark / That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear.
The hollow sea-shell which for years hath stood / On dusty shelves, when held against the ear / Proclaims its stormy parent.
In mutual devotedness to the good and true, otherwise impossible; except as armed neutrality or hollow commercial league.
Who in want a hollow friend doth try, /= 35 =Directly seasons him his enemy.
Suddenly the rocks part, and in the hollow they reveal lie meadows enlivened by the song of running water.
Careless of the lamentations of their own children, they could see in the nest only the huge hollow of a voracious beak, which gobbled whatever they brought, notwithstanding the timid efforts of the competitors, doomed beforehand to defeat.
The victim, hidden in the hollow of a pollard, would at nightfall find its way under Janiere's blouse.
I searched with beating heart for the hollow ground.
But, I say, hallo, what is that shaggy-looking brute showing his head out of the hollow stump of that old tree there?
The word "cotyledon" signifies any cup-shaped hollow or cavity, and has been applied to the plants of this genus on account of the manner of growth of the leaves, which is usually in a hollow rosette.
The lofty follower of the sun, Sad when he sets, shuts up her hollow leaves, Drooping all night, and when he warm returns, Points her enamored bosom to his ray.
These are hollow cylinders of woody basket-work, which are quite symmetrical and pretty.
The flesh-pink or almost white flowers resemble small sea-anemones, with their single row of tentacle-like petals and hollow tube powdered with the little white anthers.
I once saw it flourishing in the rich soil of a lake-shore, where its hollow stems were as large as an ordinary cane, and its blossoms grotesquely large.
The form of the column is peculiarly interesting, being that of a curving concave petal, bearing the anther, in the shape of a hollow hemisphere, on its upper edge.
When they emerged from the hollow and raced up the opposite slope they were still together.
In the hollow between the two hills a white coastguard station sentinelled the Gap, across which the line of the sea stretched like a silver wire.
The rookery was in a hollow surrounded by pressure ridges six feet high.
Looking out abeam, we would see a hollowlike a tunnel formed as the crest of a big wave toppled over on to the swelling body of water.
We carried the sleeping-bags round and found a mere hollow in the rock-face, with a shingle floor sloping at a steep angle to the sea.
The writer has himself seen the hollow half-eagle which bore to Burnside's beleaguered force the welcome tidings that in thirty hours Sherman would relieve Knoxville.
An attempt to occupy it during the night failed, as the tedious transport of the artillery through woods and hollow ways delayed the arrival of the troops.
I remember how impressive the scene was: the grim files of infantry; the gleaming brass of the cannon; one closed carriage within the hollow square; the awful stillness that brooded over all.
A hollow square was formed before the jail; an artillery company with a huge brass cannon halted near it; the cannon was placed directly in front of the jail and trained upon the gates.
The dining-hall resounded with our hollow mirth; like the scriptural fool, we were laughing at our own folly.
The two men kneeling down, and using the blades of their knives, soon carved out a hollow place, in which Costal deposited the lamp still containing the resin candle.
A hollow gurgling noise came forth from his nostrils as the air rushed in through the opening that had been made.
As one confides a letter to the hollow of a tree, to the wing of a pigeon, to the collar of a dog.
The punishment of death," replied the Musketeers, in a hollow voice.
In fact, three or four of these unfortunate men, covered with dirt and blood, fled along the hollow way, and at length regained the city.
