Famous quotes containing the word hollow:
“This Light inspires, and plays upon
The nose of Saint like Bag-pipe drone,
And speaks through hollow empty Soul,
As through a Trunk, or whispring hole,
Such language as no mortal Ear
But spiritual Eve-droppers can hear.”
—Samuel Butler (16121680)
“Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the days wine to La Guillotine.”
—Charles Dickens (18121870)
“This house was but a slight departure from the hollow tree, which the bear still inhabits,being a hollow made with trees piled up, with a coating of bark like its original.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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