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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, as is well known, is more difficult to correct than a hollow chest, though both of them are abnormal.
From How to Add Ten Years to your Life and to Double Its Satisfactions by Curry, S. S. (Samuel Silas)
Now he will keep along this side hill, for he may cross this hollow back and forth three or four times before we find him fast.
From Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping. by Woodcock, Eldred Nathaniel
This exercise is the best help that can be given for a hollow back.
From How to Add Ten Years to your Life and to Double Its Satisfactions by Curry, S. S. (Samuel Silas)
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
Some, however, feature hollow-back irons that are a combination of hybrid and super game-improvement irons.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 12, 2019
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