Example Sentences

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"Fire bears above, water below; air moves across; "Earth in the half-hollow; ether moves everywhere.

From The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy by Acharya, Madhava

He was at bay in a half-hollow stump.

From Through the Brazilian Wilderness by Roosevelt, Theodore