He leaned on the windowsill, his elbows spread, his chin cupped in his hands, his Indian blankness of countenance enlivened by the glow of his eyes, as jewels enliven dull brown velvet.

In the first half-hour, while Kate roamed from room to room, she could hardly endure the appalling blankness of the place.

Did his soul face the blankness that baffles and entices the human spirit with any convictions, the gradual products of thought and experience, or was it with an unmeaning chaos within him that he stumbled into faith and evolved his own creed?

"But one can scarcely realize such asuch a social blankness, until one actually experiences it.