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)

“Do not put all your goods in hollow ships.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)

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