concaves

Some are deceived by echoes, some by roaring of waters, or concaves and reverberation of air in the ground, hollow places and walls.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

His cheeks and eye-orbits were deep concaves — rather, it might be, from natural weakness of constitution than irregular living, though there were indications that he had led no careful life.

Wessex Tales 2006

It's fire, electricity and it grows until there's force like a raging current powering through the concaves of a riverbed.

delicategirl Diary Entry delicategirl 2004

All round is the solid whiteness of snow, the awful curves and concaves of pure whiteness of the mountain top, the hollow whiteness between the peaks, where the path crosses the high, extreme ridge of the pass.

Twilight in Italy 2003

The kind of bony where it appears the chest concaves into the heart.

Drop Shot Coben, Harlan, 1962- 1996

The kind of bony where it appears the chest concaves into the heart.

Drop Shot Coben, Harlan, 1962- 1996

The passage came to its conclusion under the dumb arch of a bridge whose concaves echoed back in infinite exaggeration every sound of the river as it gulped in rocky pools below.

Doom Castle Neil Munro

On the straight edge lay off very carefully measurements for length, shoulders, beads, concaves and all points where calipering for new diameters will be necessary.

A Course In Wood Turning Archie S. Milton

"He leaned over his boat-side, miles away from any shore, a star looked down from far above, a star looked up from far below, the glint passed as instantly, and left him the sole spirit between immense concaves of void and fulness, shut in like the flaw in a diamond."

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 Various

Many of these concaves were dry; others had a little water in the bottom; all of them had trees growing here and there, quite undisturbed, whether in the water or not; and there was no one who had cared to note how long a time had elapsed since they had begun their "decline and fall."

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 Various