39 Verbs to Use for the Word emptinesses

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

Then she walked in the garden, read a little, and in this way managed to fill out the emptiness of the hours.

And it exposes to the wretch the emptiness of pleasures, purchased at the price of honour.

Real unhappiness shows us the emptiness of mere partisan hair-splittings.

Into the first the lantern cast its glare, revealing emptiness, for the arch was wide and the cave shallow.

Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries.

But if the things which I know in spite of my education were false, if the eyes of the sea forgot their secret, or if the accent of the steep woods became vulgar, if the fairy adventures that happen in my heart fell flat, if the good friends my eyes have never seen failed me,then indeed should I know emptiness, and an astonishment that would kill.

Such teaching produces an emptiness of thought concealed under a plethora of words.

I experienced the sensation that you get when an expedition proves a failure and you've got to go home again with nothing doneall dreary emptiness; but Grim was hatching something, as you could tell by the far-away expression and the glowering light in his eyes.

These went straight to ease the gnawing emptiness of his stomach, and being a man who took his emotions at their face value, he jumped to the conclusion that it was the lady whose presence gave him the glow.

None of his works has been more widely circulated; and the admiration, which it has attracted, in almost every country of Europe, proves, that, with all its depression and sadness, it does utter a voice, that meets with an assenting answer in the hearts of all who have tried life, and found its emptiness.

If his friend had shaken hands with him would he have grasped emptiness?

"I can guess what that feeling must be; the perfect emptiness and despair of having a great work done.

The châlet was in darkness, and the door was locked, but through the uncurtained glass of the window, she was able to irradiate the emptiness of its interior.

But we have not fully learned the utter emptiness and desolation of Skill without Love.

They leave a great emptiness.

" There was not one of the young men who would not readily have admitted, and indeed energetically maintained, the emptiness, vanity, and general unsatisfactoriness of life; for such had ever been the doctrine of their venerated preceptor.

How was the Christian message meeting all the dreary emptinesses and limitations of village life?

It is difficult to believe that a man who has painted with so frightful an honesty the heartrending emptiness of the life of the poor can really grudge them every one of their pitiful pleasures, from courtship to tobacco.

His calling had taught him many of the hidden secrets of human nature and of Life: he guessed that the timeif not already herewas nigh at hand, when this unfortunate woman would realize the emptiness of her life, and would begin to reap the bitter harvest of the barren seeds which she had sown.

My father, who in spite of his nickname, "Leon l'Invincible," and reputation of conqueror of hearts, was a man of deep feelings and simply worshipped my mother, put many terrible questions to his philosophy, and not obtaining either answer or comfort, recognized its utter emptiness in the presence of a great sorrow.

CHAPTER XV Cissie Dildine's conviction that marriage would cure Peter of his mission persisted in the mulatto's mind long after the glamour of the girl had faded and his room had regained the bleak emptiness of a bachelor's bedchamber.

"Well, that ain't just the way he told it," commented the foreman, stooping to expectorate into the hearth and stopping to regard surprisedly its unwonted emptiness.

He would have screamed for help, but remembering the emptiness of the vast building, and the loneliness of the situation, he understood that no help could come that way, and he kept his lips closed.

" Lorry leaned back against the spruce and watched a hawk float in easy circles round the blue emptiness above.

39 Verbs to Use for the Word  emptinesses