hollow-backed

Then the bucket dumping into the spreader, Silver going hollow-backed and stiff, the bucket clanking once against the metal side of the spreader, and Silver exploding, his weight on his haunches, his front end off the ground, his head eight feet in the air, my hand no longer on his bridle.

The Dirty Life Kristin Kimball 2010

This ledge projected about eighteen inches, and was not more than a foot wide, while a niche in the cliff just above it, gave it a rude resemblance to one of the hollow-backed chairs used by our ancestors.

The Gold-Bug 2006

The street was unusually still for the hour of seven in the evening; an increasing drizzle had prevailed since the afternoon, and now formed a gauze across the yellow lamps, and trickled with a gentle rattle down the heavy roofs of stone tile, that bent the house-ridges hollow-backed with its weight, and in some instances caused the walls to bulge outwards in the upper story.

Wessex Tales 2006

Tally-hoes had changed horses on their stages up and down the country; but now the house was rather cavernous and chilly, the stable-roofs were hollow-backed, the landlord was asthmatic, and the traffic gone.

A Changed Man 2006

This ledge projected about eighteen inches, and was not more than a foot wide, while a niche in the cliff just above it gave it a rude resemblance to one of the hollow-backed chairs used by our ancestors.

Short Stories for English Courses Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels

This ledge projected about eighteen inches, and was not more than a foot wide, while a niche in the cliff just above it, gave it a rude resemblance to one of the hollow-backed chairs used by our ancestors.

The Short-story William Patterson Atkinson

This ledge projected about eighteen inches, and was not more than a foot wide, while a niche in the cliff just above it gave it a rude resemblance to one of the hollow-backed chairs used by our ancestors.

Selections from Poe J. Montgomery Gambrill

The portable theatres are invariably wooden and are carried "knocked down" in large wagons drawn by hollow-backed, thick-legged Flemish horses.

Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders George Wharton Edwards 1904

Not only the major articles in it; the stove, the iron bed, the deal table he wrote at, the carpenter's bench, the half invented musical typewriter that he had once attempted to convert an old square piano into, the hollow-backed easy chair, -- but the quite minor and casual trifles as well.

Mary Wollaston Henry Kitchell Webster 1903

Then he led her to his big hollow-backed easy chair which stood in the dormer where the breeze came in, changed its position

Mary Wollaston Henry Kitchell Webster 1903