All hollow


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Related to All hollow: Hollow Earth
entirely, completely; as, to beat any one all hollow.
- Macaulay.

See also: All

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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He affirmed that on returning one night from the neighboring village of Sing Sing, he had been overtaken by this midnight trooper; that he had offered to race with him for a bowl of punch, and should have won it too, for Daredevil beat the goblin horse all hollow, but just as they came to the church bridge, the Hessian bolted, and vanished in a flash of fire.
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