But all she got was a bewildered, hollow-eyed look. From Wordnik.com. [A Thousand Splendid Suns]
It was a sad gathering of hollow-eyed men and women. From Wordnik.com. [Birdseye Views of Far Lands] Reference
'But someone stole his car,' Fiona said, hollow-eyed. From Wordnik.com. [Longshot]
Perrin tried not to shift under that hollow-eyed stare. From Wordnik.com. [The Eye of the World]
All the old campaigners are thin, hollow-eyed and haggard. From Wordnik.com. [The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde"] Reference
Under the floodlights, Katherine looked frail, hollow-eyed and gaunt. From Wordnik.com. [Fighting Anorexia: No One To Blame] Reference
Five o'clock Friday morning found Creed, pale, hollow-eyed, a strip of. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
Through sandy thoroughfares bordered with acacia trees rode hollow-eyed. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
Even hollow-eyed and lean-cheeked, he really is the most beautiful man. From Wordnik.com. [The Haunting]
A dozen Boche prisoners were brought in, dirty, hollow-eyed, and furtive. From Wordnik.com. [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference
A farmer and his brood stared hollow-eyed from beneath the scolding words. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
A rumpled, hollow-eyed stranger stared back at him from the chimney glass. From Wordnik.com. [Once An Angel]
"It's been a long year," a hollow-eyed Mr. Woods told reporters afterward. From Wordnik.com. [The Unsettling Sight of a Tiger Tamed] Reference
His eyes widened upon the hollow-eyed, gaunt-faced men staring back at him. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
By the time they dragged me out, hollow-eyed, I looked forward to his questions. From Wordnik.com. [118 Days, 12 Hours, 54 Minutes] Reference
Last winter an Irish maid slowly lost her rosy cheeks and grew hollow-eyed and thin. From Wordnik.com. [Civics and Health] Reference
In this, barbarians are exactly like the hollow-eyed gambling addicts in the casino. From Wordnik.com. [Chainer's Torment]
She was standing in the doorway, hollow-eyed, in an attitude of anxious expectation. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret at the Crossroads]
He looked hollow-eyed, like a man who had faced down Death and accepted his mortality. From Wordnik.com. [The Warslayer]
He rose at once and in a few minutes Terry joined him, a little hollow-eyed with fatigue. From Wordnik.com. [Terry A Tale of the Hill People] Reference
She pointed to the gaunt, hollow-eyed shadow, empurpled-robed, against the frozen cliffs. From Wordnik.com. [The Eternal Maiden] Reference
He was pale and hollow-eyed, and almost mouldy; altogether a most cadaverous-looking person. From Wordnik.com. [A Girl Among the Anarchists] Reference
Inside, weeping women and sad-faced, hollow-eyed men are bending over loved and familiar faces. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
They were hollow-eyed and they moved about in the firelight of the courtyard hantlike and wordless. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Mountain]
It was the longest night any of them had ever spent, and the morning dawned upon a hollow-eyed, worn-out set of. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Wild Rose Lodge or, the Hermit of Moonlight Falls] Reference
And he had waited there long with his hollow-eyed mother, crouching before the feeble fire, starving with hunger. From Wordnik.com. [Four American Indians King Philip, Pontiac, Tecumseh, Osceola] Reference
She looks dazed and faint, as well she may -- a hollow-eyed, white-faced wraith of a girl, in her creased white gown. From Wordnik.com. [Only an Irish Girl] Reference
But at best Elsie had suffered keenly, and when Mrs. Moss found her pale and hollow-eyed, she felt conscience-stricken. From Wordnik.com. [Elsie Marley, Honey] Reference
She ran and trembled at the least sound; she was white and hollow-eyed, but her hate was stronger and fiercer than ever. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Thou Gavest] Reference
Men were hollow-eyed from weariness and so utterly tired that they were indifferent to the shrieking shells and all else. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference
Might not these walls have rung with lunatic screams after months and years of hollow-eyed watching for the ship that never came?. From Wordnik.com. [The Marooner] Reference
Judd, hollow-eyed from loss of sleep through dread of the approaching conflict, met with other members of the team at eleven o'clock. From Wordnik.com. [Over the Line] Reference
There are many who have not closed an eye in sleep since they awoke on Friday morning; they are hollow-eyed and pitiful looking creatures. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
And we see the pathetic little family scourged by hollow-eyed hunger from the land of their fathers into the land of the heathen Moabites. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons on Biblical Characters] Reference
The few that have crept back to us, weak, hollow-eyed and trembling, have only come to show us what it meant to starve, and then have died. From Wordnik.com. [Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos] Reference
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