Suffice it to say that I soon after retired from literature, a changed being, utterly devoid of hope.

How often it appears that, in spite of the normal equanimity observable in circumstantial evidence, hereditary disciplinarisms are totally devoid of potential abstemiousness.

The scene fascinated her, although, in a sense, she was singularly devoid of either imagination or perception.

She knew that like herself he was practically devoid of relatives,the last of his race,a figure of splendid isolation that would appeal to many.

Everybody has observed that the Shinto shrines are conspicuously devoid of objects and instruments of worship, and that a plain mirror hung in the sanctuary forms the essential part of its furnishing.

On the contrary, he buys precisely the same things as his fellow-millionaires, the same stereotyped possessionshouses in Fifth Avenue and Newport, racehorses, automobiles, boxes at the opera, diamonds and dancing girls; and whether, as the phrase is, he makes good use of his wealth, or squanders it on his pleasures, the so-called good or bad uses are alike drearily devoid of individuality.

How thrilling! Counsel for the Crown, opened the case, and in a speech grimly devoid of all emotional appeal, laid before the court the facts he was prepared to prove, on which they would base their verdict.

There is, as a rule, no difficulty in the matter, always assuming that the theme be not inherently devoid of interest.

Many of the hills composed of claystone are neatly devoid of vegetation; their surface being bare and smooth, and of a red or black colour.

He had subsequently been promoted to the rank of cardinal; and, though he was notoriously devoid of capacity, yet through the influence of his relations, and that of Madame du Barri, with whom they maintained an intimate connection, he had obtained the post of embassador to the court of Vienna, where he had made himself conspicuous for every species of disorder.

He was a strange mixture of pomposity, servility, and self-importance, a creature most abjectly, yet most amusingly, devoid of anything like tact, taste, or humour.

He is vainer than man, singularly greedy of notice, singularly intolerant of ridicule, suspicious like the deaf, jealous to the degree of frenzy, and radically devoid of truth.

Noting this, When the impatient object of his love Upbraided him with slackness, he returned No answer, only took the mother's hand And kissed it; seemingly devoid of pain, 235 Or care, that what so tenderly he pressed Was a dependant on the obdurate heart Of one who came to disunite their lives For eversad alternative!

These 'roaring forties' seem all strangely devoid of animal lifeat least in a December north-east gale; not a whale did we seeonly a pair of porpoises; not a sea-bird, save a lonely little kittiwake or two, who swung round our stern in quest of food: but the seeming want of life was only owing to our want of eyes; each night the wake teemed more bright with flame-atomies.

"So," he said at last, in a tone that was strictly devoid of feeling, "you care for him too much to marry him?

" The descendants of Ali, though almost universally devoid of the qualities of great leaders, possessed the persistence and devotion of martyrs, and their sufferings heightened the fanatical enthusiasm of their supporters.

The avowal is cynical, no doubt; but it is at any rate straightforward, and above all it is peculiarly devoid of any trace of self-deception.

Katy John was blissfully devoid of any responsibility, for seldom did Katy rise first to light the kitchen fire.

And these ideas had originated among people so characteristically devoid of the sovereign faculty of political coherency as were the Greeks and the Jews.

The tragedies of Shakespeare are devoid, one might say, or at least comparatively devoid, of all preconceptions.