Which preposition to use with hollow

of Occurrences 404%

As there was nothing more to be seen here, I turned above the hollow of our cove, skirted the base of the hill, and so down to the beach.

in Occurrences 141%

The hollow in which this house, with its gardens, stands, was brimmed with snow.

out Occurrences 28%

Among those most easy of access are the Ganesh Lena, as they are called, hollowed out of the vast rounded scarp, which rising a hundred feet above the plain projects from the Hatkeshvar and Suleman ranges about a mile northward of the town.

between Occurrences 26%

The only result I gained was to get myself well gagged with my own pocket handkerchief, and thrown in a hollow between the dunes.

with Occurrences 26%

Our eyes were hollow with suspense, and all but Shalah had the hunted look of men caught in a trap.

on Occurrences 25%

But no sign of life appeared in the green hollows on either hand, neither in the meadow spaces nor by the creeks of the growing streams.

at Occurrences 20%

At length, when the sun had set and the dark was coming, he came upon an old half-dead tree, where there was a hollow at the roots, lined with half dry moss, very soft to his foot, and it seemed a nice place to sleep in.

under Occurrences 19%

Now it so happened that when Alexander came to this spot, he stopped, and having regarded the little hollow under the rock, together with its surroundings, he dismounted and stood by it.

among Occurrences 16%

In a hollow among the woods we came to a place which sent him on his knees, peering and sniffing like a wild-cat.

into Occurrences 12%

Therefore he got Mr Spelman to find him a long small pine tree, which he first sawed in two, lengthways, and hollowed into two troughs; then, by laying the small end of one into the wide end of the other, he had a spout long enough to reach across the room, and go through the wall on both sides.

beneath Occurrences 11%

Topping the first large rise of ground, he saw in the hollow beneath him the outline of a large building.

to Occurrences 11%

But upon the ridge of Gezer no sign of all this now remains, except in the Tel Jezer, and in a sweet hollow to the north, beside a fountain, where lie the scattered Christian stone of Deir Warda, the Convent of the Rose.

by Occurrences 11%

"When they want to sail, they burn off a log of wood, and make it hollow by burning and scraping it with sharp stones.

as Occurrences 10%

I'm as hollow as the Grand Canyon.

for Occurrences 10%

It is so dark, I scarce can see my hand: Why, then, I'll hollow for themno, not so; So will his voice betray him to our mothers, And if he answer, and bring them where he is.

from Occurrences 8%

She gnawed a little every day, until at last the staff became hollow from one end to the other; and on the day when she finished her work, the work of the Jinns was also finished.

within Occurrences 7%

So the Duke laughed and closed his vizor and his laughter boomed hollow within his rusty casque, and, leaping to the saddle, rode to the end of the great tilt-yard, and, wheeling, couched his lance.

behind Occurrences 7%

TO CHOOSE COD.The cod should be chosen for the table when it is plump and round near the tail, when the hollow behind the head is deep, and when the sides are undulated as if they were ribbed.

like Occurrences 6%

In the morning of the next day, being October 13th, many of the natives returned on board the ships in their boats or canoes, which were all of one piece hollowed like a tray from the trunk of a tree; some of these were so large as to contain forty or forty-five men, while others were so small as only to hold one person, with many intermediate sizes between these extremes.

below Occurrences 5%

A short distance from the pitswhich are rather rounded, and follow the outline of the hills in shapeand in a slight hollow below them, are more bones of horses.

about Occurrences 4%

It was not a loud noise, but rather like that which a boat makes jostling against another at sea, only there was something deeper and more hollow about it.

near Occurrences 4%

All the lower portion of the cañon was in gloaming shadow, and I crept into a hollow near one of the upper lakelets to smooth the ground in a sheltered nook for a bed.

through Occurrences 4%

At the head of the rocky hollow through which Chaney Creek ran to the river, lived the family who gave the brook its name.

than Occurrences 3%

In seeking a shelter in his son's heart he had found a tomb more hollow than those which men dig for their dead.

over Occurrences 3%

Still they held on bravely, trying in vain to keep their direction by the eddying winds, till Mooka stumbled twice at the same hollow over a hidden brook, and they knew they were running blindly in a circle of death.

Which preposition to use with  hollow