1. "Hollow"
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Derek Landy, Skulduggery Pleasant
2. "What kind of knife is this? Locke held a rounded buttering utensil up for Chains’ inspection. It’s all wrong. You couldn’t kill anyone with this."
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Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora
3. "Whatever made me the way I am left me hollow, empty inside, unable to feel. It doesn't seem like a big deal."
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Quote by Jeff Lindsay
4. "I look for places like me: big, hollow, forgotten by most everyone."
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Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
5. "It required a great deal of Cam’s willpower—and he had a considerable supply—not to skewer Christopher Frost with a dining utensil. He wanted her attention. All of it."
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Lisa Kleypas, Mine Till Midnight
6. "We camped for the night in a hollow near a good-sized creek—one big enough for trout. Jamie and Ian waded into this with enthusiasm, harrying the finny denizens with whippy rods cut from black willow."
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Diana Gabaldon, Drums of Autumn
7. "A big"
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Jeff Guinn, Go Down Together: The True
8. "It took longer for the fork to gain acceptance in England because it was thought to be a feminine utensil. Thomas Coryate, an English traveler and philosopher who had been to Italy and France, published a book in 1611 that included the Italian custom of eating with a fork. He declared himself the first man in London to eat with a fork."
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Dorothea Johnson, Modern Manners: Tools to Take You to the Top
9. "That moment, the music screeched to a halt. There was an ungodly collision of brass, reed, and percussion—trombones and piccolos skidded into cacophony, a tuba farted, and the hollow clang of a cymbal wavered out of the big top, over our heads and into oblivion."
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Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants
10. "Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's drunk? When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put a certain utensil - well - well, nevermind."
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Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library