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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
A hollow back offends the eye much, and a roach back is worse.
From Dogs and All about Them by Leighton, Robert
A visitor to Mount Vernon in 1798 says that he had "about 150 of the Guinea kind, with short legs and hollow back," so it is evident that he was experimenting with new breeds.
From George Washington: Farmer by Haworth, Paul Leland
The spot chosen was in a hollow, back of a gently rising slope.
From Battery E in France 149th Field Artillery, Rainbow (42nd) Division by Kilner, Frederic R.
"Ahdab," the common hunchback; in classical language the Gobbo in the text would be termed "Ak'as" from "Ka'as," one with protruding back and breast; sometimes used for hollow back and protruding breast.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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