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Parents fighting the closure of their children's junior school won a hollow victory at London's Appeal Court last night.
The fid is hollow so that a strand can be led into it and fed through the rope.
Fielding women candidates can be a hollow victory if they are not resourced to campaign effectively and confidently.
Does not the claim of the government which claims to promote travel and tourism appear hollow to you?
If Colin wins his case, I feel it will be a hollow victory for him, whether or not he realizes this now.
On Jan. 27, searchers recorded pairs of loud raps, as if a huge woodpecker were drumming on a hollow tree.
The piece consists of several hollow frame cubes as well as many solid cubes glued to the stairs.
In the face of his failure to do anything about the carnage of past months, his promise to preserve national unity has a somewhat hollow sound.
He is from all appearances, an utterly hollow man whose every action belies the religion he wears on his sleeve.
The Forest Service's argument, however, sounded hollow to many wilderness advocates.
And we should try to ignore the hollow laughter at that description from those who use it every day.
Those of us with our eye on the ball know that the promise of a technology-supported, Utopian future is a hollow one.
The promise of new jobs rings somewhat hollow to a community with an unemployment rate well below the national average.
The first item on that shopping list will trigger hollow laughter among the rest of the world's steel makers.
Is Williams's redemption complete and sincere, or is it just a hollow promise?
Carefully hollow out the tofu cube about half an inch deep and place in a small soup bowl.
Drawn beads are produced from a bubble of molten glass that is drawn into a long hollow tube.
Myxozoans, in contrast, form plasmodia or hollow sacs in which infective spores are produced.
Just looking at the lactescent SavMart or the uninhabited appearance of Sy's apartment is enough to make you feel hollow inside.
Most magic tricks are done with specially made gadgets that are deceptively hollow but which look solid.
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Males have hollow spurs connected to venom glands on the ankle of each hind leg.
The photo below was taken in attempts to show the powder down feathers which outline the furcular hollow and are unique to herons and bitterns.
The hollow in the stone was about 20 centimetres in diameter and about 30 centimetres deep.
They are cavity-nesters, finding a natural hollow in a tree, an old woodpecker hole, a hole in a building, or a man-made nest box.
He dug snow away from its end, and from within a hollow in the log retrieved two wooden barbed spears.
She had hid for a time within the hollow of the oak tree as pursuers raced through the forest looking for her.
And then Ben's match began, and it was him I cheered for instead, my yells sounding hollow even to my own ears.
At times, the puppies hide in the hollow of a tree, under which they have created a burrow, he adds, explaining some aspects of their behaviour.
Pick it up and you discover underneath, nestled in a cutout hollow of thick cardboard, a smaller book!
The sound is hollow and muffled throughout the film, and the bass has been cranked up to make up for the overall lack of punch.
I pulled the small piece of parchment from within the hollow of the band and handed it to Janet for her to read out loud.
The blastocyst forms into a hollow ball that implants itself in the uterine lining.
The cold, hollow sounds of their steps echoing behind them made the little hairs on the back of his neck rise.
Out of one oven came a complete mini-pumpkin, the hollow inside filled with rice, chestnuts and cured meat.
It was a quaint little place, nestled in a hollow in the hills, and smoke rose cozily out of the chimneys of the houses.
Once a bustling coastal township it is now a sleepy hollow with a beautiful beach, a school, and a church.
The site could be in a woody crevice or tree hollow or tucked into a tangle of vines.
Directly to my left, a rectangular plantation almost ready for harvest stretches to the next hollow like a roll of teased Astroturf.
An award-winning cabin in Monteagle is nestled in a Tennessee mountain hollow and projects from the hillside to overlook a mountain stream.
The famous Surprise View is a great hollow with valleys leading north and south and moorland roads climbing out.
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Nestled in a hollow at Hunters Point, right up against the bay, we found our goal.
Set in three-quarters of an acre, derelict Lambs Barton Stables nestle amid landscaped gardens in a hollow of land with sea views.
The hollow or tubular structures of the urinary system are vulnerable to infection by coliform bacteria.
However, to hollow out the glacial boulders, made of Vermont granite, he used a high-intensity blowtorch.
Kerala's Shiva Priya's dream run came to an end in the 63 kg division where Asian champion Aruna Mishra beat her hollow in the first round.
A hollow candle is stuck into the ear and lit, allegedly sucking out earwax and negative energy.
The hollow rabbit had a layer of white chocolate covered with milk chocolate.
I'd copied Max's Coleman, improving on the Sathe design by putting a pale glass bulb and chimney around a hollow wick.
Before Europeans arrived in North America, chimney swifts nested in the old giant hollow trees of the forest.
The empty bathroom flung the words back at me, making them sound like hollow laughter.
Others build dens in hollow logs, under tree roots, or in abandoned buildings.
A normal heart is divided into four hollow chambers, two on the right and two on the left.
Inside the shell is a thin brown coat, the testa, which adheres firmly to the kernel, which is hollow and contains liquid.
During drilling a hollow steel core barrel with an inner rod with pointed tip was hammered into the sand by percussion and hydraulic pressure.
The triumphalists hadn't predicted it either, let alone noticed the hollow centre of this great victory, but that is beside the point.
Most rods are made from hollow tapering tubes from a mixture of carbon and glass fibres bonded by a resin.
Colugos are nocturnal, passing the day in dens in hollow trees or suspended from branches.
His tenure closed with a win at Hampden, but it was a hollow victory as faint hopes of qualification for the next World Cup were extinguished.
Visceral pain originates in hollow organs and frequently presents as colic.
To give the epidural anaesthetic, the anaesthetist passes a hollow needle into a small space just below the spinal cord.
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She remembered the dark, cold cavern and the hollow echoes of her footsteps as she walked into its darkness.
They're so enormous, so stratospheric, so downright farcical that all I can offer in response is a kind of hollow laugh.
They fed me on boiled pumpkin, wild rice, little mud fish and river prawns cooked in hollow bamboo tubes.
A hollow cylindrical column bearing a compressive load can fail by local buckling.
She had laughed, so close to tears, so close to letting the hollow gaping wound surface and sweep her away in a wave of inexpressible rage.
Consequently too many of the 2002 clarets I tasted had unpleasant bitter green tannins, hollow watery palates and dull finishes.
After blurring the lines between good and evil so skillfully, this ending comes as a somewhat hollow conclusion.
He looked down into the hollow tree and noticed that there was a small shimmer of light at the end.
Without pause, he grabbed the tree branch and pulled himself up into the hollow of the tree.
With a hollow clink, it once more sat at its customary place, the level of liquid lowered.
It showed that even the hollow and the imaginary can demonstrate some form of hypochondriasis.
Eventually they learnt to leave a full bucket of water outdoors until it had frozen solid and then hollow out the block of ice.
Far above us, the grey clouds got sick of threatening and decided to act, and a hollow boom of thunder sounded.
The battery extension assembly includes a hollow cylindroid body, a confining structure and an elastic holding member.
Tophet was a huge hollow idol in which the Canaanites would set a blazing fire.
Down in the hollow just north of me are three deer feeding along the field edge.
Those found in the Indo-Pacific are considered to have the most active venom, in the modified hollow spines at the tips of their dorsal fins.
The echoes of our footsteps bounce off the bare walls of the hollow structure.
Indignance doesn't give back, remaining as hollow as dime store chocolate rabbits.
Eventually only a hollow lined by residual soils above a breccia chimney marks the site of a former salt extrusion.
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The parklike understory turned into rank undergrowth, and the inevitable result was a bushfire that destroyed all the old-growth, hollow trees.
The crown and back comprise a single element separated by a hollow space joined by brazing the parts together.
It makes a dry rustling sound, and a hollow echo as the cans and harder litter roll away across the dirty tiles.
I think of it as arising from pain fibers that are not mucosal but deeper in hollow organs or in solid masses.
There, he fitted the tied brushes in the bamboo poles and changed hollow brushes into solid brushes.
Furthermore, the hollow body is a solid-drawn steel tube which is provided with a plurality of longish recesses.
You'll see their vacuous smiles, but their sad eyes will betray how hollow and unhappy they really are.
A hollow sound indicates that the veneer is not fixed soundly and further work is required.
Often a broody cockatiel hen ready to lay eggs will tear paper at the bottom of her cage to prepare a bare, hollow impression for her eggs.
In the deluxe version, the brain was generally extracted down the nose and the entrails removed before the hollow body was dried out with salts.
I can feel anger and bile rising in me, rising up out of the years of desperation and hollow fury.
A variety of minerals were deposited in the hollow vesicles, including chlorite, prehnite, quartz, epidote, microcline, and pumpellyite.
In abdominal disease the symptom is particularly associated with rapid enlargement of an encapsulated organ or distension of a hollow viscus.
Today, discontent tended to make me think it's all a hollow shell, that perhaps all that effort, all that sacrifice, were not worth my while.
A thick white coat of hollow hairs provides good insulation from the arctic climate.
Opening the lid, however, reveals no hollow volume inside, but only the top layer of stacked plywood.
On the contrary it extends to any roof structure involving the use of hollow plastic extruded elements.
Of the extrusion alloys, only AZ80A is not extruded into hollow shapes or tubing.
A feature recognition methodology is presented, based on wire frame solid modeler, to recognize hollow or solid extrudable components.
On most males, the fabric will drape down from the shoulder area to provide a convenient hollow behind the hip.
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The particles may be carbon fibers, carbon black, carbon whiskers, coated hollow microspheres, or a combination thereof.
The feature shared by this group is the lophophore, an unusual feeding appendage bearing hollow tentacles.
The red squirrel's home is a drey, which is a hollow ball made of twigs and leaves in a fork amongst the branches close to the trunk of a tree.
The outer-rotor in-wheel motor, however, uses a hollow doughnut construction that locates the rotor outside the stator.
The idea behind the hollow base was to make it easy for the bullet to obturate and fully engrave the rifling at the very low pressures involved.
By placing that plastic ball in the hollow base of the Foster slug, concentric obturation of the slug in the bore is achieved.
The branched stems are waxy with purple blotches and are hollow between nodes.
Then he built a big fire and skinned the bears, and tried out the fat and poured it into a hollow in the ground.
This anchor is designed for use in wallboard, plaster, or other hollow walls, such as tiled wallboard.
A hollow forged aluminum crown and 30 mm stanchions help keep grams off while still offering maximum rigidity.
Approximately 20 minutes before serving hollow out the core from the bottom of each pear using a melon baller or a Parisian scoop.
He talked for the benefit of the neighbors; his hollow glibbing tones could be heard easily two blocks away.
As the sound increases in volume, it rattles glass bottles that line the interiors of the hollow metal walls.
Then a hollow needle is inserted into the bone, and a syringe is used to draw out the liquid-like bone marrow.
Won regarded the hollow canal structure as one of the indicators of the close relationship of radiolarians and the Porifera.
Without warning, a massive, hollow boom resounded from the ridges up near the front lines.
The cheapest and most ecologically sound way to build a swimming pool is simply to hollow a hole in the ground.
For instance there were certain stones to be found in fields or graveyards with a hole or hollow which at times was full of water.
Don't put it in the hollow of the cheek in an attempt to shade your face, or it could end up looking like a dirty smudge.
The long and midirons have a hollow body, like woods, so more weight can be moved down and back.
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This lever is hollow to house the shot barrel ramrod, which generally lands on the ground.
As for watermelons, pick the ones minus dents or scratches and a light thump should yield a dull hollow sound.
In many parts of the world, ants set up house in hollow swellings that form on tree twigs or leaves.
The idea may be a departure from the traditional ruthless image of investment banks, but Robey says it's no hollow promise.
On Boxing Day, the poor did receive money from their masters but in hollow clay pots with a slit in the top.
Konglang taught the crew to cook rice in a length of bamboo and how to hollow out the core of a banana tree for fresh water.
There is a sprinkling of hobblers, plenty of wincers, and almost universal hollow eyes and messed hair.
As I sat in bed and futilely attempted to sleep, I noticed a deep rumbling sound emanating from the hollow recesses of my cavernous stomach.
Her voice sounded too hollow to be the melodic voice of those pleasant beings.
The beat of the kick drum is the sound of a brass doorknocker thumping outside the vast, hollow halls of limbo.
This is a nasty piece of thin elastic upon which hollow compressed lumps of sugar and colourings are threaded.
We carried semi-automatic rifles and shotguns with hollow point shells designed to pierce a boarder's hull right below the water line.
These are hollow casts that partially fill the space once occupied by the original crystals of anhydrite.
The ridges form irregularly situated protuberances that house hollow spines usually 0.05-0.06 mm wide and up to 0.12 mm long.
I wrapped my arms around him and cried into the hollow of his collar bone, putting my fingers through his hair at the nape of his neck.
The hollow cavities were formed as the animal matured and grew to adulthood, erasing the early growth rings.
The vane guide plate is inserted in the lunular hollow formed by the curved walls of the vane.
The sound is hollow and tinny, and the dialogue is often quite difficult to understand.
Take a heaped tablespoon of the chicken mixture and push a hollow in it with your thumb.
A deeper read, however, suggests something more complicated, a pattern of embarrassing defeats and hollow victories.
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Rather than phytotoxins, the plant is protected by vicious stinging ants that live within the hollow stems.
Heavier objects can be supported with a molly style hollow wall fastener, a spiral threaded fastener, or a toggle bolt.
Tip a heaped teaspoon of cheese into the hollow then cover it with a second tablespoon of chicken mixture.
It is part of the hollow acoustics of a bankrupt and leaderless opposition.
The Belembautuyan, made from a hollow gourd and strung with taut wire, is a stringed musical instrument native to Guam.
Hand claps, body slaps, foot stomps, and the hollow sounds of the boxes being hit built into complex and satisfying rhythmic structures.
This new, hollow design used less uranium and more plutonium and created a more powerful explosion as well as a smaller, lighter fission bomb.
Block 18 is of whiter material, probably a sandstone, badly eroded, and contains the remains of an octofoil, with hollow center.
It was now precision built of hollow aluminum tubing and boasted an adjustable, double-action spring.
Lashing whips, hollow gunshots, meaningless choruses, whistling, echoing pipes, tubular bells and stylophones are all tipped into the collage.
If your cut exposes the hollow portion of the door, you must reinstall the solid-wood rail from the cutoff.
The grandfather clock in the corner of the room announced the arrival of midnight with twelve, hollow dongs.
My eyes were dull, my cheeks hollow and my lips chapped and dry, no matter how much lip balm I put on them.
I felt an involuntary shudder shake my body at the feel of his hot breath against the sensitive hollow of my neck.
The rest of us know this is just propaganda and the terms are just hollow buzzwords that do not match reality of living here.
The caissons were huge hollow reinforced concrete blocks that were floated across the channel and then sunk when in position.
Your sinuses are hollow spaces within the bones of your face, behind and above your nose.
Construction of the dome included installing hollow structural members that double as radiator pipes.
She first pins her hopes on a Portuguese captain who turns out to be hollow blusterer.
In contrast, both sexes of many other hoofed mammals have permanent, hollow horns.
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This heating would melt the wax and allow it to be poured off or voided, leaving a hollow mould.
It's flat and hollow at times, but why would anyone expect more from an old show originally recorded in mono?
One piece is a hollow pillar, which glows lustrously when a bulb is placed inside.
Rangatiratanga is not about going one way down a blind alley to a hollow end.
The choking, glugging boiling water twanged against the hollow unplumbed tub and the brass bungle of piping smeared and juddered.
Kael smirked at the memory and burrowed closer, pressing his face into the hollow of Sully's collarbone.
To make one, use a hacksaw to sever a section of the main beam, and hollow out the softer center with a rotary rasp.
Before attaching the hollow item, a hole was punched through the body pot so that the trapped air would vent into the space of the body.
There will also be the usual blather about healing wounds and moving on, but such false consolation will ring especially hollow this time around.
In a sense, Watkins's images blaze a trail for the tourist at the expense of the adventurer and hollow out the sublime, leaving only spectacle.
Nests are located on cliffs, in haystacks, hollow trees, or in barns and old buildings.
Halve and stone the apricots and put them, hollow side up, in a heatproof dish.
Carry on across a hollow containing two tarns named Kirkfell Tarn to the North Top of Kirk Fell.
First they cut a little well into bark and fill it with water carried in hollow bamboo.
Figs are hollow multiple receptacles lined with numerous male and female florets.
He is like a younger version of Philip, whose sunken chest, stooped shoulders, and hollow eyes lend him the appearance of a man twice his age.
This conversation was pointless and only awakened the hollow feeling in the pit of his gut and the sensation of helplessness.
Throughout the growing season, hollow vessels in a tree's sapwood, or xylem, conduct water and nutrients up from the roots to the leaves.
As he wandered along the road to the bus station he felt strangely hollow and remained silent on the journey to Horsham.
The steam was generated in a separate boiler and brought into the sphere along a hollow spindle.
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Using a paring knife or a melon ball scoop, hollow out the bottom of the cake, keeping the removed section intact.
Several large edible crabs have burrowed under the mast and others live inside the hollow structure.
When a hollow point bullet hits a bullet proof vest, it mushrooms and will not go through the vest.
This tasty anti-globalization bonbon may have a slightly hollow centre, however, and the weakness stems, ironically, from a lack of information.
And on the occasions when a pill was mistakenly forgotten, were all the sleepless nights that followed nothing but a hollow joke?
To prevent the Ephialtes or night-mare we hang up a hollow stone in our stables.
A thermocouple was inserted in the hollow probe, and temperatures were recorded.
The plaster sucks away the moisture from the clay and the remaining liquid slip in the hollow is poured out.
Fixing a hollow force turned out to be a lot more expensive than just maintaining an adequate military.
The inner shell of a sea urchin is a hollow globe, scored in five curved sections that taper at the ends into a small hole at the top and bottom.
He never pushed his will on her, didn't slobber over her, filling her ears with cheap platitudes and hollow compliments.
The resulting hummock and hollow microtopography of the forest floor is characteristic of mixed conifer and cedar swamps in New York state.
Today, it is a hollow cavern offering a grim sanctuary for families displaced by their country's unending war.
His and Dr. Powers' footfalls on the sidewalk were loud and vaguely hollow in the caverns of the cobbled street.
The walls are a feat of engineering, with short flights of stairs within the hollow cavity reaching higher galleries.
Dare we keep our fingers crossed that people are waking up to what a hollow man he is?
Apart from a few high-sounding and hollow phrases in the election manifesto, they have moved even further to the right.
The Red Balloon was now big and round and felt more alive, now he had substance, a hollow physical body.
It is a slippery path, at the bottom of which lies a hollow curriculum, devoid of meaningful content.
The roof rests on a glulam substructure supported on concrete posts with glass panels fixed to hollow steel sections.
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In the region under dispute were several bee trees which the settlers valued because of the honey stored in the hollow trunks.
Foxx can be subtle and funny here, but his performance often feels like a rather hollow if impressive feat of mimicry.
At this stage, the blastula is in the form of a hollow sphere with radial symmetry.
A snake slithered over its flowing contours, settling into a small hollow beneath the mound.
He walked over to a tree with a hollow in it, and pulled out a large bag with something long and thin in it.
This group has a great diversity of roosting habits, including caves, hollow logs, tree branches, tunnels, and human houses.
She left the road again and ran until she found another sheltered hollow in the trees and sumac, where she lay down and waited.
Female Bornean tree hole frogs lay their eggs in the rotting holes of hollow tree stumps so that offspring can grow in a pool of water.
Around 1800, edge-cutting astragal and hollow planes appeared, although the rebates were still cut using the sash fillister.
Blood vessels are essentially hollow tubes that carry blood to the organs and tissues throughout your body.
Here, the railing separates from the wall creating a hollow space with ample daylight filtering in through a skylight directly above.
Nick handed both men long rounded metal blades, hollow inside, attached to intricately carved handles.
Yamasaki used another method, which essentially made the building a hollow steel tube.
The framework is basically a hollow cylinder of collagenous connective tissue, the skin.
A broken bone with a hollow space inside indicated that the creature was a carnivore, but yielded few other clues.
The cochlea is a coiled, hollow tube inside the inner ear that enables us to hear.
Nests are located inside high, hollow branches, well outside the range of land-bound predators.
Newspapers, overdue bills, grocery lists, and scraps paper filled the hollow space.
The surveys concluded that the tree's trunk was essentially hollow and there were large areas of deadwood within its crown.
When you're about 60, the penalty for remaining rockstar-thin is a cadaverous face and hollow cheeks.
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He could barely see them, as they were tucked away inside of a giant hollow tree.
When these cattle move side by side in the herd, their hollow horns knock together, producing a characteristic resonant sound.
They had hollow eyes and sunken cheeks, and they wailed horribly in the darkness.
His angular face, with its long, sloping, jaw line, narrow chin and hollow cheeks, suggests the fragility of china.
His cheeks were slightly more hollow compared to the last time she had saw him, and his hair was longer.
He was very handsome, except for the pale skin that was turning brown and the sunken cheeks and other visible hollow or gaunt areas.
Then images of children with bloated bellies, hollow cheeks, and heavy-lidded eyes will begin to go around the world.
She looks as though she neither ate nor slept during the entire shoot, with her dark-circled eyes, gaunt frame, and hollow cheeks.
The driver was 18 to 19 years old, 5ft 6ins tall, hairy with a slim build, dark eyes, a gaunt face and hollow cheeks.
They are generally in blue, green, white or occasionally amethyst glass, and are often cut with shallow, concave hollow diamonds.
He's skinny and angular, with a hollow face, jaundiced skin, sunken black eyes and a flaxen mop.
The large wooden doors closed behind him automatically with a hollow boom, not unlike the sound of a tomb being shut.
A few more hollow noises that sounded like metal on metal made him certain.
She turned as she heard hollow footsteps echo through the temple, and saw James approaching her door.
Bake until biscuits are golden on top and bottom and sound hollow when tapped, about 10 minutes.
The public and the private interfuse here, like Clarence's remarkable image of diamonds flashing in the hollow eyes of skulls.
There is a call for peaceful direct action that could leave the hardliners with a certain but hollow victory when the election results come in.
Smalley was the recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in chemistry for the discovery of closed, hollow cages of carbon atoms known as buckyballs.
A single, consistent bar on a hollow reed, just musical enough to be considered a note.
Those cute little ears of pasta work particularly well with a chunky sauce, as they allow little pools to gather in the hollow of their delicate shape.
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Any cant about representing farming is hollow and hypocritical.
Even when I don't think about it, I feel so hollow and worthless.
But all that came forth was the hollow click of an empty gun.
I heard a small hollow thud from behind me and a little laugh.
The victory in certain lights does seem indeed to be a hollow miracle.
The swarthy Australian bustled into the box and lashed the ball urgently past Roy, the last, florid statement in what had become a hollow argument.
Behind him, Hank could hear the hollow clop of tiny hooves approaching.
The ring of intellect and humour alone risks a hollow sound, but the undeniable success of this show lies beyond the volume, in a kind of pitiful pop-eyed self-awareness.
The subject too tends to be rendered in a formulaic way with the figure positioned centrally or slightly to one side within a rocky hollow or outcrop.
While all the king's horses and all the king's men do build this grand and mighty structure, the sound of their hammers echoes limitlessly in the hollow within.
Not only did you restuff the pillows and reupholster the armchair, but you also added an extra layer on the hollow portion on the bottom of the chair.
Moments later, she saw headlights in the middle distance and moved off the road, into the low hollow at the side, where she flicked off the torch and crouched low.
Its call is a series of clear, hollow whistles, all on one pitch.
A yellow ray of flowers appears on a long fleshy hollow stem.
Tyrannosaurs shared a number of characteristics with birds, including hollow bones, feet with three primary toes that all pointed forward, and a wishbone.
They would carry a block of ochre to the nearest waterhole or spring, mix ochre and water into a paste and shape it again into a block, with a slight hollow at the bottom.
Which countries supply the most exports of watch glasses, glass for spectacles not optically worked, and hollow glass spheres and segments for sphere manufacture?
Then today I was weeding the bed in front of my house and lifted a mop of variegated grass to see a toad looking at me from a hollow he'd made in the shade of my porch.
When the bread is golden brown and sounds hollow when tapped, it is done.
The left arm is made of hollow rectangular chromoly steel tubing that tapers in size from 30 mm at the bottom bracket spindle to 21 mm at the pedal spindle.
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A variety of minerals were deposited in the hollow vesicles.
Additional cover can be made from hollow logs, stacked rocks, and woodpiles, which form perfect hiding places for lizards, quail, rabbits, and other small animals.
But Lieberman's call to let bygones be bygones rings as hollow as his promise to draw troops down from Iraq.
The female leopard usually gives birth to between two and three cubs, usually in a cave among rocks, thickets, hollow trees, reedy nests or wherever she can find cover.
In the end, hollow pulled out a withering attack that outpaced Budden both in speed and viciousness.
If you're feeling creative, hollow out tangerine shells, freeze them, then fill with granita and keep in the freezer to pull out at a moment's notice.
Turning the magic wand into silk scarves and pulling out a bunch of flowers from a hollow pipe that enclosed a lit candle were some of his acts that won thunderous applause.
A sound that is close to this is the hollow sound of a tuning fork.
A single diamond solitaire hovered above the hollow of her throat.
On closer inspection, Iijima saw that these were hollow cylinders of carbon, and that each one contained several cylinders nested inside one another like Russian dolls.
While small sculptures may be solid, most casts are hollow shells.
The boy stops making noise, and there's a hollow absence of sound for few moments before the Iraqi soldiers start shouting again.
Unlike the activities of the woodpeckers, a raccoon that denned in a hollow on the Indiana myotis roost tree made clear attempts to capture bats as they exited the roost.
Three hollow rays diverge at angles of 120 degrees from the central part.
The young man weaves through clusters of bamboo and cuts a diagonal slash into a tree, positioning a hollow log at the end.
He saw himself incredibly emaciated, covered in filth, his cheeks drawn and his own eyes looked back at him from hollow sockets colored with despair, pleading for help.
Profiles of McGreevey from throughout his career depict him as a workaholic, driven, charming and schmoozy but eerily hollow in both personal life and political philosophy.
Now mostly recycled as fence posts, the hollow demountable poles were used originally to erect telegraphic wires across the Central Australian Desert during the 2nd World War.
And all the time her eyes, with their long lashes in their dark hollow sockets will gaze into the eyes of a man who loved her truly and knowingly married her.
Somehow the weekly ceremony had seemed hollow and meaningless to her.
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A half-pipe is a U-shaped hollow cut into the snow in which competitors ski from one side to the other performing an array of tricks on which they are judged on.
I dropped the pole and it clattered to the pier with a hollow thunk.
The hollow of the bell symbolizes the wisdom cognizing emptiness.
Utterly predictable, full of wooden acting and ringing with hollow family-values thematics, this is thoroughly banal and barely worth looking back on.
The gold buckle does not feel like a real dress item, and may have been a reliquary, its hollow box once containing a sacred fragment of bone or textile.
The list of requested materiel provides a window into a hollow and outmatched Ukrainian military.
A regiment of United States lancers were drawn up in a hollow square round the Lethal Chamber.
Spread up the sides of the moulds and make a hollow and then fill with cooked mince, top with the crumb mixture and bake in a low oven to warm through.
When passing an electrical conductor through a conducting panel at high voltages, our hollow pair lead-ins provide optimum insulation and strength.
The aim was always to hollow out the more moderate party and supplant it.
The feather is a skin appendage, like hair, that grows as a unique hollow tube from a follicle by the controlled proliferation of cells in a ring.
It wasn't a bright sound like most bells, but more hollow and deep.
In appearance, they are like medieval louvres and were designed to trap the wind from any direction then funnel it through a hollow shaft to the rooms below.
Krishna Pandit did the same and was extremely happy when the snake guided him through the swampy and marshy land, until he reached the hollow trunk of a mulberry tree.
I refreshed myself in the mid-day heat by drinking its pure lymph from the hollow of my hand, and gazed with long and insatiable delight upon the memorable fountain.
They discovered a hollow way, a lynchet, banks and hollows that may indicate house sites, and one piece of pottery from the thirteenth or fourteenth century.
Driven by a penetrating east wind, it drifted until every hollow and depression was filled and the landscape assumed the appearance of a vast white prairie.
However our parrots, such as lorikeets and rosellas, need weather proof nesting boxes for natural hollow logs fixed a minimum of 3 meters from the ground.
Their faces were ashen, sorrow staring back from hollow eyes.
The older slang meaning of the phrase is a hollow sarcastic obedience.

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