What is "hollowed"

Usage examples of "hollowed".

Like any who came near House Baenre, which encompassed twenty huge and hollowed stalagmites and thirty adorned stalactites, Jarlaxle found himself impressed once more.

He thrust Alexius’ compromising letter into his breast and ran back along the hollowed pavement.

Flame consumed those vast eyes, hollowed them until visions erupted in the waste space of their ruined sockets.

His own face, pale, sorrowful, with hollowed eyes, reflected in the water, captured his attention again.

His weathering was gone, his cheeks hollowed, and his eyes as remote as the figures depicted in shimmering tiles on a church's walls.

He could see figures within the ruined chapel, striding down toward the altar, wrought of one block of stone, behind which generations of humble workers had hollowed out an apse and painted it.

It was very old, almost as old as the pots and bowls neatly stacked upon the rock tables and shelves hollowed into the cave walls.

Father Meletios's voice had changed, hollowed out as if spoken from the bottom of a deep well.

Women wiped down the tables, also carved from the rock when the chambers were hollowed out, while their daughters fitted bedding into alcoves carved into the walls.

When it had been hollowed out, blocks of stone had been left at its center, and a long table and benches had been carved from them.

The pit in his stomach hollowed as he recalled that, to the pagans, the fates were female.

He lumbered over to his hollowed bed and settled himself into the curved stone.

Petiron had told her that those stones, standing offshore in the treacherous waters, had once been part of the palisade, probably hollowed with caves like all this stretch of cliff.

Then its center mushroomed out and opened into a clear image of a man's face, a gaunt, hollowed visage painted in the tradition of some of the southern cities.

His face had retained its fullness, not hollowed with age, but his skin appeared almost wooden in texture, with lines that seemed more like cracks and a rough edge that defied time as stubbornly as an ancient tree.