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I sneaked out a quart jar of peaches, some cold corn bread, and a few onions, and started up the hollow back of our house.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
To make a hollow back, a piece of stout paper is taken which measures once the length of the back and three times the width.
From Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians by Rooke, Noel
The strings a-tighten'd lik' to crack Athirt the canister's tin zide, Did reach, a glitt'rèn, zide by zide, Above the humstrum's hollow back.
From Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect by Barnes, William
According to their views, the hollow back of an African elephant would amount to a deformity.
From Wild Beasts and Their Ways, Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa and America — Volume 1 by Baker, Samuel White, Sir
From the description it can be identified with the almandine garnet, and the method of cutting this stone en cabochon, with hollow back in order to display its colour better is specially mentioned.
From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William
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