Which preposition to use with vacuities
Meals are wished for from the cravings of vacuity of mind, as well as from the desire of eating.
His departure has left a sad vacuity in the framework which he helped to uphold and adorn.
[1056] 'If we know little of the ancient Highlanders, let us not fill the vacuity with Ossian.
Ignorance, I say, for it was not the knowledge of our wise men that whispered such things, but their sense of the vacuity beyond their knowledge.
The once goodly row of quartos looks now like a set of mineral teeth that have essayed too closely to simulate Nature by assaulting a Boston cracker; and the intervals of vacuity among the books, as among the incisors, deprive the owner of his accustomed glibness in pronouncing himself on certain topics.
So that, as far as we can judge, there may be room in the vacuity between any two steps of the scale, or between any two points of the cone of being, for infinite exertion of infinite power.
He conceals its vacuity beneath forms of a highly-colored style, an amiable negligence and a facility that is benumbing to thought.