hollow-stomached

Updated: May 17, 2025

'You're only on the fringe of it here. I preferred to keep the old road, and to gape at miracles accomplished since my day. The old, false-fronted, hollow-stomached Western hotels were gone; their places filled by five-storey brick or stone ones, with Post Offices to match.

Rudyard Kipling - Letters of Travel (1892-1913)