This road leads through a sandyhollow shaded by trees for about a quarter of a mile, where it crosses the bridge famous in goblin story, and just beyond swells the green knoll on which stands the whitewashed church.
I hate the dreadfulhollow behind the little wood, / Its lips in the field above are dabbled with blood-red heath, / The red-ribb'd hedges drip with a silent horror of blood, / And Echo there, whatever is ask'd her, answers 'Death.'
(oenology)Synonym ofempty(“lacking between the onset of tasting and the finish”).
2002, Robert M. Parker (Jr.), Pierre-Antoine Rovani,Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide (page 175)
While most 1974s remain hard, tannic,hollow wines lacking ripeness, flesh, and character, a number of the Graves estates did produce surprisingly spicy, interesting wines.
[T]he Converſation (if it may be called ſo) was ſeldom ſuch as could entertain a Lady. It conſiſted chiefly ofHollowing, Singing, Relations of ſporting Adventures,B—d—y, and Abuſe of Women and of the Government.