Which preposition to use with emptying
Their treasury is empty of spiritual coin, and their storehouse contains no world-thoughts.
All these claims are located on Klondyke River and the little tributaries emptying into it, and the districts are known as Big Bonanza, Gold Bottom and Honker.
Death I sought, but could not find it; and by and by I was alone in the woods, with twenty scars and a heart as empty as a gourd.
This house had been empty for a great while; years before histhe ancient man'sbirth.
After a forty-mile trip on the Yukon, you arrive at Dawson City, where the Klondyke empties in the Yukon.
It's empty on this floor so far as I've been over it.
I'm sure I grasp not Air; thou art no Fantom: Thy Arms return not empty to my Bosom, But meet a solid Treasure.
The waters of the lake empty at the extreme north-east angle through a channel not more than one hundred yards wide, which soon expands into what Schwatka called Lake Nares.
And Iah, my dear, I must confess that my hair is growing gray, and that my life has not been entirely empty without you, and that I ate and enjoyed two mutton-chops at luncheon, though I knew I should see you to-day.
I have fitted up six rooms, with lodgings for five servants, which are all I ever will have in this place; and I am persuaded that I could make a profit if I would part with my purchase, having been very much befriended in the sale, which was by auction, the owner having died without children, and I believe he had never seen this mansion in his life, it having stood empty from the death of his grandfather.
And the "slush" snows meant springand the emptying of the wilderness of human life.
The brake, with its salmon-coloured streamers and four reeking horses, stood empty before the door of the office; Wilson, Purvis, Fawcett and Montgomery passed in.
Yet the tenement which had housed the old man's deranged spirit, empty as now it wasaye, emptier than Duggle's tombwas still to be witness of one more earthly scene and unwittingly bear part in it.
The great projector of the thunderbolts, He that is wont to piss whole clouds of rain Into the earth, vast gaping urinal, Which that one-ey'd subsizer of the sky, Dan Phoebus, empties by calidity; He and his townsmen planets brings to thee Most fatty lumps of earth's fecundity.
His indignant expostulations were met with a titter of suppressed laughter; he was roughly forced down upon his knees, and while in this position what seemed like two buckets of cold water were emptied over his devoted head.
The reason why the fruit is emptied out of the preserving-pan into an earthen pan is, that the acid of the fruit acts upon the copper, of which the preserving-pans are usually made.
My holes were empty like a cup, In every hole the sea came up, Till it could come no more.
"Not a slip in the country will be empty during the coming months.
The nest was empty with the exception of Polton, who appeared at the laboratory door in his white apron, with a pair of flat-nosed pliers in his hand.
The next portion of the intestine is called the jejunum, because it is usually empty after death.
I love to ring for their christenings and marriages, to toll proudly for the brave lads in blue, and tenderly for the innocent creatures whose seats are empty under my old roof.
Each exclamation being followed with that groaning grunt, with which the West-country folk, after having screamed their lungs empty through their noses, recover their breath for a fresh burst.
A little cluster of wine bottles stood upon the buffet, and these had their necks knocked off, and were emptied down parched throats.
The great square Abbey pew at the top of the church was empty throughout Easter Sunday.
But if our eyes fell on a certain chair, empty against the wall, a cutting pang was felt, which was not at all concealed; for there were sudden breaks in our commonplace talk, which diverged into wandering channels, betraying the tension of feeling.