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hollow

The blue-bird makes her nest in a hollow tree and her eggs are blue.

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The skull looked up through hollow eyes, just as the flashlight died, plunging the pair into a blackened void of darkness.

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The dirt hit his body with a hollow thud.

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In this way two cavalry regiments galloped through the Semenovsk hollow and as soon as they reached the top of the incline turned round and galloped full speed back again.

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So high as heaved the tumid hills, so low Down sunk a hollow bottom broad and deep, Capacious bed of waters.

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Where a large-celled pith is developed this often becomes obvious very early, and in some cases it appears to have separate initials situated below those of the hollow vascular cylinder.

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Say, some hollow tree; and then for morning calls and dinner-parties!

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Dan leaned back into the hollow of the tree in which they'd taken refuge.

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Two of the does had hollow looking stomachs and their udders were shiny.

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"I have no allies," she said in a hollow tone.

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In the twilight saddled horses could be seen, and Cossacks and hussars who had rigged up rough shelters in the glade and were kindling glowing fires in a hollow of the forest where the French could not see the smoke.

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The tentacles are usually hollow, rarely solid (Obelia) .

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One bicep filled the hollow of her neck while his other arm was tight around her midsection.

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It took her the better part of an hour to locate the cow, and if it hadn't been for the white form that raced out to meet them, she might have missed the cow in the hollow with her two calves.

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In front, beyond a hollow dale, could be seen the enemy's columns and guns.

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The tentacles may be scattered singly round the margin of the umbrella (" monerenematous ") or arranged in tufts (" lophonematous "); in form they may be simple or branched (Cladonemid type); in structure they may be hollow (" coelomerinthous "); or solid (" pycnomerinthous ").

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The cups are placed symmetrically on the end of the arms, and it is easy to see that the wind always has the hollow of one cup presented to it; the back of the cup on the opposite end of the cross also faces the wind, but the pressure on it is naturally less, and hence a continual rotation is produced; each cup in turn as it comes round providing the necessary force.

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You see down there where the rows of hay are lying in the hollow, there's the bridge.

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A hollow tearing sound was followed by a horrendous crash outside the kitchen window.

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A hollow tearing sound was followed by a horrendous crash outside the kitchen window.

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