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See, I saved 'em," and she shook from a scooped-out gourd which served as an ornament on the mantel two bits of metal. "Was it like these, Vladdy?" she asked, but Vladimir was too tired of being questioned and ran away without answering. His mother shook her head as she gazed at the bits lying on her palm.
And only when the fear, the abasement, is gone does the true reverence come, which makes the most primitive creed a living religion. As the Munthdeeguns pass the sacred fire they throw in a weapon each. This done they place their charges in slightly scooped-out places, already prepared in the inner ring. Then they bid them, on pain of death, not to look up whatever happens.
As soon as this is made, the old woman sets fire to a thick heap of Budtha leaves and makes the girl swallow the smoke. She then bids her lie down in a scooped-out hollow she has made in the earth, saying to her, 'You are to be made a young woman now. No more must you run about as you please. Here must you stay with me, doing as I say.
And on the farther side, the high, scooped-out wall of the crater rose rich and dark above the temple-site. How white white it must have shone! thought Lucy. Her imagination had been caught by the priest's story. She saw Nemi for the first time as one who had seen it before. Timidly she looked at the man walking beside the carriage. Strange!
The floor and the walls were of rich-hued tiles, the arched ceiling was ribbed with polished woods to look like the scooped-out interior of a half-orange. Costly hangings muffled the noise of the outer world, and large shutters excluded, when necessary, the glare of the sun.
The horizon has sunk, has gone down, and from the very house drops an almost overhanging, as it were scooped-out, black precipice. We all crowded to the window.... Horror froze our hearts. 'Here it is ... here it is! whispers one next me. And behold, along the whole far boundary of the earth, something began to stir, some sort of small, roundish hillocks began heaving and falling.
It narrowed and grew lower still; but the light of the stars was clear in front of me and the cold wind blew upon my face; and I squeezed through into the same scooped-out hollow which I had entered on the same afternoon during the course of my journey toward the château.
How delicious, too, the fresh fruits brought off by the Malays in their scooped-out logs, one's first taste of bananas, juicy shaddocks, mangoes, and custard apples after months of salt junk, disgusting salt pork, and biscuit all dust and weevils. The water is so crystal-clear it seems as though one could lay one's hands on strange coloured fish and coral beds at any depth.
He had not travelled far before he had come to the mound where his six companions lay buried. There against the dusky sky-line he had seen a famished wolf standing over a scooped-out grave. So the factor had had his sign, and had looked upon his disembodied soul with his own eyes.
If you don't hang, you tumble straight down into the scooped-out cavity below; but nobody ever does that till he dies, for that cavity is at once the cemetery and the refuse-heap and the dust-bin of the city, a haunt of tiny ghouls beetle, spider, and fly ghouls and other loathsome horrors, the scavengers, hyenas, vultures, and jackals of the wasp world.
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