6471 examples of empty in sentences

At one o'clock I went on board the "Manhattan," which was still quite empty.

Though we left her empty behindno friends, and no acquaintances remaining there, still we continued to wave our handkerchiefs at her so long as we could see her, and have ever since remembered her as the noblest of all the ships that was in harbor that day.

With a crippled naval power and decline in military strength, with defeated armies and an empty purse, it seemed to the Czar that Turkey was crushed in spirit and Constantinople defenceless; and that impression was strengthened by the representation of his ambassador at the Porte,Prince Mentchikof, who almost openly insulted the Sultan by his arrogance, assumptions, and threats.

There were various signssigns intelligible at least to a keenly intuitive soulthat the room was occupied, yet so far as human beings were concerned, it was empty, utterly empty.

And this thing should save me a wearisome going round; so that I made to consider it with a serious mind; and all the time did I search the bare greyness before me, and saw presently that it was surely empty.

And I was sore perished with the cold of the Night; for I had not the warmth of my cloak about me, and my belly was very empty.

And this shall seem but a little thing to you; yet was it a wondrous important matter unto me, that had gone so long with an empty belly, and was never satisfied.

And it was a wild and stark and empty place, as you must perceive.

And surely, now that I was upon the dry land, and did consider, I did quickly suppose that the water had poured forth at seasons into the basin for an eternity of time, and afterward did go back by fissures in the bottom of the basin; and this to happen, as I soon did find, a little beyond the length of every hour; and, indeed the basin to empty slow as I did watch.

And when that I had gone so long forward as this, I did see how that I did foolishly; and I lookt about for a place for my slumber; and I found a small cave that was clean and empty, as I did discover by the shining of the Diskos which I made to spin a little time.

And after we had eat and drunk, I did count the packs of the tablets, and was thankful in all my being that I had been careful and denied my belly; for I did perceive that there were left enough for our needs, if that we made a good speed, and did not fear to be empty.

Yet, had we but slain somewhat for our hunger in that great wandering, we had been less empty in the belly.

From the day following Clotilde's departure, Pascal shut himself up in the great empty house.

And she displayed extraordinary heroism the morning when, driven to extremity, seeing her stove cold and the larder empty, she disappeared for an hour and then returned with provisions and the change of a hundred-franc note.

" The two men embraced each other, and no other allusion was made to the absent one, to her whose departure had left the house empty, than an energetic and sad hand clasp.

Martine, fortunately, in the profound silence of the empty house, heard the knock.

let the World, That lives without a hart, and is but showe, Stand on her empty, and impoisoned forme, I knowe thy kindenesse and have seene thy hart Clest

Reguard, Monsieur: you no point eate a de meate to daie, you be de empty; be gar you be emptie, you be no point vel; be garr you be vere sick, you no point leave a de provision; be garr you stay, spit your nose.

Athos and Aramis at once responded, and waited on the queen, who received them in the large empty roomsleft unfurnished by the avarice of the cardinalallotted to her in the Louvre.

The other Indian, taking advantage of Morgan's empty gun, sprung from the shelter, and advanced rapidly upon him.

He now again stood at bay, clubbing his rifle for a blow, while the Indian, dropping his empty gun, brandished his tomahawk and prepared to throw it at his enemy.

When he was on his death-bed, in 1869, the empty title of knighthood was conferred upon him.

Throughout the city one house seems to empty itself into another.

"The pint bottle of best laudanum, which I had from town a fortnight ago, ma'am, is now nearly empty, ma'am.

Fine ladies with over-full hearts, and seedy gentlemen with over-empty pockets, jostle each other at her door; and she has a smile, and a repartee, and good, cunning, practical wisdom for each and every one of them, and then dismisses them to bill and coo with Claude, and laugh over everybody and everything.

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