The daughter came up-stairs one day to announce the utter emptiness of the larder.

But how all the beauty of the singing morning became a scentless flower when, on making the earliest possible call, he was met at the door with that hollow word, 'Away'a word that seemed to echo through long rooms of infinite emptiness and turn the daylight shabbytill the addendum, 'for the day,' set the birds singing again, and called the sunshine back.

How was the Christian message meeting all the dreary emptinesses and limitations of village life?

He vividly remembered that alsothe red-hot anguish as it had torn its way through him, the awful emptiness of death that had followed.

He knew, now, that he was leaving her forever, and there was an ache in his heart that had never been there before, a pain that was not of the club or whip, of cold or hunger, but which was greater than them all, and which filled him with a desire to throw back his head and cry out his loneliness to the gray emptiness of the sky.

The violins spoke to him of that morrow of blank emptiness softly and languorously like one making a luxury of grief.

"I, for one, would rather die than have a constant emptiness in my tummy or lack of energy due to malnutrition.

Almost all the boxes were full now, but one, just opposite, tantalized her by its continued emptiness.

In all the troubled round of sea and air, No glimpse of brightness lends the vivid zest Of life and light to the harsh monotone Of gray tumultuous flood and spectral sky; Far off the black basaltic crags are heaved Against the desolate emptiness of space; But no sweet beam of sunset ever falls Athwart old Skidloe's cloudy crestno soft And wistful glory of awakened dawn Lays on his haggard brows a touch of grace.

He moved along, talking to himself in the dusty emptiness of the crescent.

To the east, across the flat emptiness, the Rother crawls seaward; to the west across the Marsh, as once across the sea, Winchelsea rises against the woods, and beyond, far away, the darkness of Fairlight hangs like a cloud twixt sea and sky.

A gigantic emptiness, a rolling vacancy of sea and earthbrine-waves to rear of the Legion, sand-waves aheadshrank the party to seeming insignificance.

It was then that people were speaking of Paris as a dead citya Paris without theatres, without young men, without omnibuses, with the shutters of its shops down and its cafés and restaurants in gloomy emptiness.

You will see the horrible emptiness of it all, and you will yearn for better things.

Such a town, for instance, as Zagazig, last seen by a very small boy who was lifted out of a railway-carriage and set down beneath a whitewashed wall under naked stars in an illimitable emptiness because, they told him, the train was on fire.

Here, somehow, amid all this dead atmosphere of furniture and impersonal emptiness, lay the hint of a living human presence; and with such conviction did it come upon me, that my hand instinctively gripped the pistol in my pocket before I could even think.

A few bitter chords, a few stray notes that somehow spoke to her of a spirit escaped and wandering alone and naked in a desert of indescribable emptiness, and then silencea crushing, fearful silence like the ashes of a burnt-out fire.

The exuberant excrescence of his diction I have often lopped, his triumphant exultations over Pope and Howe I have sometimes suppressed, and his contemptible ostentation I have frequently concealed; but I have in some places shown him, as he would have shown himself, for the reader's diversion, that the inflated emptiness of some notes may justify or excuse the contraction of the rest.

Even the big cow-mushrooms are not altogether meaningless; not a mere white emptiness in the eye.

We can all see it, hanging and turning in the monstrous emptiness of the skies, and obedient to forces whose action we can watch hundreds of light-years away and feel in the beating of our hearts.

Felicia stepped upon the painted floor of the bare hall, glanced up the narrow stairs, and then stood in the musty, half-lit emptiness of what she guessed to be the living-room, waiting for Ken.

They sipped their tea, and talked a little about who had been at church and who had not been, and the room was filled with that atmosphere of dulness which seems to prevail in such households upon a summer Sunday evening; a kind of palpable emptiness which sets a man speculating how many years he may have to live, and how many such Sundays he may have to spend.

He was impatient of mere idle worldliness, of conceit and impertinence, of men who gave themselves airs; he was very impatient of pompous and solemn emptiness.

They revealed sad emptiness of purpose.

Her husband did not fully sympathise with the change in her views, but he saw enough of the sinful emptiness of mere gaiety to make him refrain from insisting upon her taking part in its pursuits.