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Definition of Hollownesses
1. hollowness [n] - See also: hollowness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hollownesses
Literary usage of Hollownesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1885)
"Sir Robert Moray's suggestion to Huygens seems (very obscurely) to convey his
opinion that these ' hollownesses ' were due to the intersection of a pair of ..."
2. Puritan and Anglican: Studies in Literature by Edward Dowden (1901)
"The river that runs slow and creeps by the banks, and begs leave of every turf
to let it pass, is drawn into little hollownesses, and spends itself in ..."
3. A Sailor's Garland by John Masefield (1908)
"Earth's hollownesses, which the world's lungs are, Have no more wind than th'
upper vault of air. We can nor lost friends nor sought foes recover, ..."
4. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor by Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1850)
"... all the fish and wealth within all its hollownesses are his, but he is never
the better for what he cannot get; all the shell-fishes that produce pearl ..."
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