10 Verbs to Use for the Word vacuities

[1056] 'If we know little of the ancient Highlanders, let us not fill the vacuity with Ossian.

His departure has left a sad vacuity in the framework which he helped to uphold and adorn.

The breach caused by this affair induced Sir Philip Baddely, a gentleman who always supplied "each vacuity of sense" with an oath, to endeavour to cut him out by proposing to Belinda.

We trust that its genealogy is nobler, and that it is of kin with coelum tueri, rather than with the Greek [Greek: kephalae], if Suidas be right in tracing the origin of that to a word meaning vacuity.

He conceals its vacuity beneath forms of a highly-colored style, an amiable negligence and a facility that is benumbing to thought.

His contemporaries, however, and successors down to Johnson, took his solemn vacuity in all seriousness.

'I find little but dismal vacuity, neither business nor pleasure,' iii. 380, n. 3; 'Madam, I do not like to come down to vacuity,' ii. 410.

A book that sets out to record vacuity can hardly be crammed with thrilling literature, and I am not going to pretend that Mr. LAKE has achieved the impossible.

The cleaned skull always shows a large vacuity in the outer wall in front of the orbit, which prevents the lachrymal bone from reaching the nasals.

In other words, he began, as Signer Guasti pithily describes his method, 'to change halves of lines, whole verses, ideas: if he found a fragment, he completed it: if brevity involved the thought in obscurity, he amplified: if the obscurity seemed incurable, he amputated: for superabundant wealth of conception he substituted vacuity; smoothed asperities; softened salient lights.'

10 Verbs to Use for the Word  vacuities