A succeeding blankness of mind awoke to the clip-clop of hoofs and her father's cheery halloo.

Mrs. Draper affected to see in her silence a blankness as to the subject of the talk, and interrupted the flow of personalities to cry out, with a pretense of horror, "You don't mean to say you don't know who Jerry Fiske is!" Sylvia, as unused as her mother to conversational traps, fell into this one with an eager promptness.

His calm face, usually a perfect picture of repose and self-possession, betrayed his emotion by a certain blankness in the eyes, certain contractions in the skin of the forehead.

For half a century past, the only remaining spaces of complete mystery, of utter blankness on our maps, were the two Poles.

Aren't you, Mr. Martin?" Martin looked down at the eager, joyous face, so expressive in spite of the blankness behind the eyes.

She has not been her natural self for these last few days, but she had other causes for worry, and I have been willing enough to think that these were the occasion of her restless ways and short, sharp speech and the blankness with which she met all my attempts to soothe and encourage her.