SYN: Hollow, scooped, pitted, excavated, retreating, alveolar.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Yet this Elizabeth piqued herself on chastity; and while she practised every ridiculous art of coquetry to be admired at an unseemly age, kept off lovers whom she encouraged, and neither gratified her own desires nor their ambition.
— from On Love by Stendhal

She was grieved beyond measure to part with Briggs, but her means required that she should practise every retrenchment, and her sorrow was mitigated by the idea that her dear Briggs would be far better provided for by her generous patron than in her humble home.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

12 For example, in the 1920's the Soviet press expressed resentment and amusement over a ruse adopted by the British during the course of operations along the Northwest Frontier.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

Estas últimas están relativamente bien dotadas en apoyo jurídico, ya sea por el recurso a los servicios internos de litigios, ya sea por la contratación de compañías especializadas.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

"Oh so pleasant!" echoed Rotha, almost in tears.
— from The Letter of Credit by Susan Warner

First of all, when the wool was landed, it had to be inspected by the Royal officers, to see that it had been properly labelled, and their skilled packers examined, repacked, and resealed the bales.
— from Medieval People by Eileen Power

Yet this Elizabeth piqued herself on chastity; and while she practised every ridiculous art of coquetry to be admired at an unseemly age, kept off lovers whom she encouraged, and neither gratified her own desires nor their ambition:—who can help preferring the honest, open-hearted, barbarian Empress?
— from Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Second, Volume 2 (of 3) by Horace Walpole

On the 7th of September Princess Elizabeth received a letter from Prince William, written from Sedan, with the news of victory.
— from The Life of Carmen Sylva (Queen of Roumania) by Natalie Stackelberg

This story, which contains 25,000 words, is divided into six parts, each representing a separate scene in the progress of the story; and yet, so skillful is James, there is no hiatus between the parts, and the story as a whole has unity of impression.
— from Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story by Charles Raymond Barrett

In the exhilaration of this first attempt he spent some pleasant evenings revising and polishing his work; and gradually a feeling of authority and importance developed in him.
— from The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton

I have heard it said, Ellen, that Christians are the only Bible some people ever read; and it is true; all they know of religion is what they get from the lives of its professors; and oh!
— from The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner

They say she generally names the name of the party that is to die; but there is no case known of the sick person ever recoverin' afther she has given the warnin' of death.”
— from The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton

She pleaded her youth unsuitable to marriage, the recent death of Tybalt, which had left her spirits too weak to meet a husband with any face of joy, and how indecorous it would show for the family of the Capulets to be celebrating a nuptial feast, when his funeral solemnities were hardly over: she pleaded every reason against the match, but the true one, namely, that she was married already.
— from Tales from Shakespeare by Charles Lamb