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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
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
He was always talking about the white man up the hollow, back in the woods.
From Booker T. Washington Builder of a Civilization by Scott, Emmett J. (Emmett Jay)
For cloth or half-cloth binding a hollow back is frequently glued on.
From Practical Bookbinding by Adam, Paul
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)
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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