Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Hollow

Hollow as a gun.
—Anonymous

Hollow as the soul of an echo.
—Anonymous

Hollow as the murmur of the midnight sea after the tempest nursed itself to rest.
—Anonymous

As hollow as an egg shell.
—Philip James Bailey

Hollow and wasteful as a whirlwind.
—Philip James Bailey

Hollow as is the armour of a ghost.
—Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Hollow as an actor’s laugh.
—Gelett Burgess

Hollow like a niche in a column.
—Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Hollow and dead as the empty shell of last year’s nut.
—Violet Fane

As hollow as any trumpet in Europe.
—Henry Fielding

Hollower than an echo fallen
Across some clear abyss.
—Jean Ingelow

Hollow as the unbowell’d winds.
—Henry Hart Milman

Hollow, as a sepulchre.
—Melville D. Post

Hollow as a drum.
—Charles Reade

Hollow like a breathing shell.
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Hollow as a ghost.
—William Shakespeare

Hollow as the hopes and fears of men.
—Alfred Tennyson