Vasari's letter to Michelangelo shows that up to this date none of the statues had been erected in their proper places, and that it was intended to add a great number of figures, as well as to adorn blank spaces in the walls with frescoes.

What a blank fell upon my hopes at these cruel words!

A confused hum sounded in my earsand then followed a long blank.

" If the speaker liked this kind of blank verse, she had called up the right supply house, for Mitchell came back with: "Say, if I ever get your number, I'll do the calling, Miss Santa Fé.

" "What's that?" "Who'd believe I was a widowin this profession?" Freddy still looked blank.

" "Drew a blank!"

It was shut, and a placard informed him that Mr. Blank was attending court at the county-seat.

" Leaving his card, with a request that Mr. Blank would communicate to him Alice's address, Greenleaf hired a conveyance to the railway.

An arm was shot into the air, then his head and shoulders rose rapidly, and there was a sudden blank in the waters.

There were vague ends and blank walls of interrogation in the matter, that perplexed him.

"I suppose thisI say, is this right?" He handed back the book to Lagune, open at the blank counterfoil of a cheque that had been removed.

"Surely," he said, "he has notWill you read it outthe cheque, the counterfoil I mean, that I am unable to see?" "It's blank," said Lewisham with an irresistible grin.

Chaffery had induced Lagune when hypnotised to sign a blank cheque as an "autograph."

"The future looks so blank, so hopeless that it becomes a nightmare to me.

In the space of minutes, look where one would, the horizon was blank.

A long time he stood so, his great hands locked, his face toward the blank tent wall opposite; then at last he turned.

And blank necessity is grace and favor.

And the same grand blank which was in our faith, must likewise have been in our love.

In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tails, others loosen the buckle of the strap that you may fall and crack your skull; one wrenches off your horse's shoes, another steals your whip, and the least treacherous of them all is the man whom you see coming to fire his pistol at you point blank.

After a prologue, in which Atè foretells in staid and measured but not unpleasing blank verse the fall of Troy, the silvan deities, Pan, Faunus, Silvanus, Pomona, Flora, enter to welcome the three goddesses who are on their way to visit 'Ida hills,' and who after a while enter, led by Rhanis and accompanied by the Muses, whose processional chant heralds their approach.

The greater part is written either in fourteeners or in decasyllabic couplets with occasional alexandrines, in both of which the author displays an ease and mastery which, to say the least, were uncommon in the dramatic work of the early eighties; while the passages of blank verse introduced at important dramatic points, notably in Paris' defence and in Diana's speech, are the best of their kind between Surrey and Marlowe.

The play is likewise distinguished from the other dramatic works of its author by being composed almost entirely in blank verse.

The Italian endecasillabi sciolti are far less flexible than our own blank verse, and it is only when freely interspersed with the shorter settinarî that they can attempt to rival the range of effect possible to the English metre in the hands of a skilful artist.

In course," he continued, as he observed Lance put his hand to his pocket, "you've only got a blank check on Wells, Fargo & Co. for a hundred dollars, and you'd like me to give you the difference?" Amused as Lance evidently was at this, his absolute admiration for Flip absorbed everything else.

The weak lips were wreathed with a feeble imploring smile, but the eyes wherein the fretful, peevish, suspicious spirit had dwelt were blank and tenantless; the flickering intellect that had lit them was blown out and vanished.