The emptiness of the room did not alarm me.

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

He felt a terrible emptiness within him which he could not fill.

SYMPTOMS.The earliest symptom is a dragging sensation in the back when the child is in the act of sucking, and an exhausted feeling of sinking and emptiness at the pit of the stomach afterwards.

The whole available portion of the deck, poop included, was in possession of a crowd of youngsters, many mere boys, from the Abruzzi, destined to exchange their rags and emptiness for the gay uniform and good rations of King Ferdinand's soldiery.

But Mary felt as one who finds, in the emptiness after a friend's death, an unexpected message or memento; and all alone in the white, calm stillness of her little room her heart took sudden possession of her.

I can feel the ambition of a young man; and were I one, how gladly would I put the world and its emptiness from me, and nurse and feed my soul and brain with the thoughts and souls of other men, till I was strong and great; and then, from my obscurity, I would come forth and take my place in the lead;" and her great eyes flashed.

Just before the last things were taken out, Kate found her in an agony of weeping on David's bed, which stood with an appalling emptiness beside Honora's.

He who raises his protest, rising above the general and common monotony, draws upon himself the stupid anger of scandalised man, and suffers punishment; if he is poor he is put to the proof of hunger, his means of life being cut away from him, and if he is independent he is burned in effigy, creating emptiness around him.

" He bent at the rail, gazing far out into the vague emptiness through which the air-liner was pushing.

She seemed to be yet falling, falling through emptiness to annihilation.

But a distinction without a difference could not sustain itself: and both alike disguised their emptiness under this pompous quadrisyllable.

She felt the emptiness with a desolation such as she had never felt before.

Will the doctor by the strength of his genius tear the sky and show to her emptiness beyond the stars?