hollow chest

His heart was pounding in a hollow chest; it had been sheer luck.

She saw a child with crooked legs and a hollow chest, growing stunted in the mean soil of poverty.

Valentine had never seen so many hollow chests, flat feet, bad eyes, and rickety knees.

The words couldn't possibly fit this girl and her hollow chest and scrawny arms, not ever.

He wished that policy were standard operating procedure, instead of hollow chest pounding at the United Nations.

His head had jerked up when I leapt to my feet - now it sank back on to his hollow chest.

His hollow chest heaved rapidly.

"Sleeper" is a Frankensteinian idol of approximately life size, made from wood and clay, whose hollow chest cavity may be a dwelling.

One fist struck upon the hollow chest, bare where the ragged clothing hung open and caused a hollow drumming sound.

He felt hollow all over, hollow legs, hollow chest, a hollow ache in his head.

He looked as though a cannonball had hit him amidships and left him with a hollow chest and a permanent arch in his back.

She watched ruefully until the paleographer had gone doddering from the room, his precious bundle clasped close against his hollow chest.

His cavernous eyes, long narrow face, high-hunching shoulders, and hollow chest all made him look rather like a pale cobra fresh-risen from a wicker basket.

Later, thumping his own hollow chest, the narrator can only reflect on the disadvantage his lack of a name will be in the eyes of the law.

He had a hollow chest, deep-set eyes, a thin, lined face and sparse black-and-gray hair larded back with lashings of Brylcreem.

The Hollow Chest (as by Alice Tilton)

Shock heads, hairy, crumpled faces, hollow chests, flat feet, sagging muscles--every kind of malformation and physical rottenness were there.

While Jack kept Eldron helpless, Langrew stepped in front of Beale and firmly poked his gun against the servant's hollow chest.

The Hollow Chest is a novel that was published in 1940 by Phoebe Atwood Taylor writing as Alice Tilton.

Bringing his hands together at the center of the staff, Eragon drove his arms forward, striking the Ra'zac across its hollow chest and throwing the monster back several yards.

Pectus excavatum (a Latin term meaning hollowed chest) is the most common congenital deformity of the anterior wall of the chest, in which several ribs and the sternum grow abnormally.

He watched them go and, within him, his heart struck heavy, muffled blows, as if the pendulum of the cosmic clock were swinging back and forth, back and forth, within his hollow chest.

Eagerly, he leaned forward, his eyes shining as Raistlin slowly drew aside the folds of his black robes, revealing what seemed an empty, crystal globe hovering within his hollow chest cavity like a clear, crystalline heart.

The portly figure of Colonel Underknuckle confronted him, the broad mud-colored lapels of his full-dress uniform sagging over his hollow chest, his shoulder boards drooping under the weight of gold braid.

Hugh manages to temporarily deactivate the robot, and climbs inside its hollow chest to hitch a ride to the robot's home base, which turns out to be the laboratory of an evil scientist, who dies in the ensuing battle.