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Sentences starting with empty

Empty skins of old phrases,--stuff 'em with odds and ends of old thoughts that never were good for anything,--cut 'em up in lengths and sell'em to fools! [6]
Empty your wine cups with me--To victory and a speedy return home in peace! [10]

Sentences ending with empty

He entered the yard--it was empty. [11]
Poor man!--she said.--And will leave the best room empty! [6]
Dick was pondering what these words might mean, and still more what the presence of Mr Brass might mean, when Mrs Quilp came hurrying down stairs, declaring that the rooms above were empty. [12]
Only six chambers were in the gun, and of course one chamber was empty. [11]
But Drew's blankets were empty. [9]
All the stalls were empty. [13]
At least it was reduced to one tin-cupful, and Slade was about to take it when he saw that my cup was empty. [5]
But the bag was not yet empty. [10]
The left sleeve was empty. [9]
The fourth bed, waiting its tenant day after day, was still empty. [6]

Short sentences using empty

The first stall--Bells's stall--was empty. [13]
The church was nearly empty. [4]
The office was empty. [9]
The bean-pole was empty. [4]
The lodge was empty. [11]
The deck was empty. [11]
His revolvers were empty. [11]
The room was empty! [9]
It seems empty and hollow. [11]
This place was almost empty. [9]

Sentences containing empty two or more times

That is saying we cannot empty an empty cup. [5]
I am glad Miss Neron has fed me, for there is no telling what iniquity I might wander into on an empty stomach--I mean, an empty mind. [5]
However, the mere matter of capacity is a thing of no sort of consequence, since the cask is empty, and indeed has always been empty, history says. [5]
It was empty in the sense that a dying queenless hive is empty. [2]
But so soon as her hand found nothing more on the empty trencher the bright illusion vanished, and she looked with dismay into the empty oil-cup and at the place where just now the bread had been. [10]

More example sentences with the word empty in them

More than one young gentleman of family had been known to ride through the Place du Vier Prison, hoping to get sight of her, and to offer the view of a suggestively empty pillion behind him. [11]
Sure enough, when you saw the shut doors and open windows of those empty houses, all white without in the sun and dark within, and not a human to be seen, you could believe almost anything. [11]
He will throw you aside like an empty wine bottle when he has used you for a model. [10]
After many, many years the man sat by a coffin, in an empty home. [5]
The old man would not look into the empty room where he had last seen his son alive; he turned his face away and hurried by the door. [8]
After which, he would go forth in his rags and beg a few farthings, eat his poor crust, take his customary cuffs and abuse, and then stretch himself upon his handful of foul straw, and resume his empty grandeurs in his dreams. [5]
In Spain there would always be some woman whom he could cajole; some comrade whom he could betray; some priest whom he could deceive, whose pocket he could empty by the recital of his troubles. [11]
Melissa stood mute, with tearful eyes, while Alexander, quite beside himself, tried to relieve his rage and grief by empty threats. [10]
See Appendix B] with empty window arches, ivy-mailed battlements, moldering towers--the Lear of inanimate nature--deserted, discrowned, beaten by the storms, but royal still, and beautiful. [5]
My pious son will not let the gallows become empty in this land of heretical exaltation. [10]
The prodigal generosity which had become an empty name has revived again among us! [10]
My seat was where I might see them, and an empty chair stood between me and my aunt; this was left for Master Ulsenius, the leech. [10]
When the lights were up again the room was empty, save for Theophile Charlemagne, Jake Hough, and Suzon, who lay in a faint on the floor with a nasty bruise on her forehead. [11]
At no hour was it empty, but at morning prayer and at vespers the benches were apt to be filled, and groups of penitents or spectators were kneeling or standing on the floor. [4]
If the dining-room was empty, other unprecedented demands were made upon Henrica, for then her aunt, who could not endure to be alone a moment, was sick and miserable, and she was obliged to nurse her. [10]
The little room was empty, but Belotti did not keep him waiting long. [10]
The Mavick box was empty until the overture was half through. [4]
The wide vestibule was empty except for two men who stopped a low-toned conversation to look at me. [9]
I thought they wanted to breathe the air of this world again in my shape, which I seemed to see as it were empty of myself and of these other selves, like a sponge that has water pressed out of it. [6]
The long train wandered on under its shroud of dust, and stood still when it reached the Necropolis; then the sledge with the bier came back empty on red hot runners--but she was not one of the mourners--she was imprisoned in the pestiferous house. [10]
The streets were very clean, very sunny, very empty, and very dull. [12]
I was taken up to the top of tall houses, through a smell of cabbage that was appalling, to find empty and dreary rooms, from which I fled in fright. [4]
The bed was unmade, and on the table beside two empty beer bottles and glasses and the remains of a box of candy--suggestive of a Sunday purchase at a drug store--she recognized Lise's vanity case. [9]
From two directions two long files of infantry came plowing through the pack and press in silence; there was a low, crisp order and the crowd vanished, the square save the sidewalks was empty, the private mourner was gone. [5]
These he never turned empty away. [11]
It is like tumbling down through an empty steeple, feet first. [5]
A mounted policeman trotted past her as she crossed a gravel drive, and on the tree-flecked stretches, which lately had been empty as Eden, human figures were scattered. [9]
One of them told me, as illustrating his want of dignity, that as he was going home late one night through the nearly empty streets, he was met by a roystering party who were making a night of it from tavern to tavern. [4]
We were urged to treat the princesses with the utmost courtesy and consideration, and we perceived that their reception really demanded respect; for the palace, which we had found empty and desolate, was refurnished from roof to foundation. [10]
They had proved to their satisfaction, that the Mississippi did not empty into the Gulf of California, or into the Atlantic. [5]
When he returned to the room, it was empty. [11]
So we used to sit at the Post loafing: in the daytime watching the empty plains all panting for travellers, like a young bride waiting her husband for the first time. [11]
I almost expected to see Patty come tripping down from the vine-covered porch with her needlework in her hand, and the house seemed strangely empty without her. [9]
Then he went to see if the hall were empty, and led her at once to the treasurer's office through the various passages which connected it with the main buildings. [10]
Appenzelder had intended to practise exercises with his young pupils in the chapel belonging to this old house, familiar to all the inhabitants of Ratisbon, but Wolf found it empty. [10]
It is enough to make a graven image laugh, to see apparently rational people, away down here in this wholesome and merciless slaughter-day for shams, still mouthing empty reverence for those moss-backed frauds and scoundrelisms, hereditary kingship and so-called "nobility. [5]
He had hoped to loiter in a doorway there, and to empty his sailor's heart in well-practised admiration before the altar of village beauty. [11]
It were easier to live alone to the end with her own remorse, drinking the cup that would not empty, on and on, than to live with that look in his eyes. [11]
He found himself, to his surprise, surveying with equanimity the pile of books in the corner which had led him to the conviction of the emptiness of the universe--but the universe was no longer empty! [9]
Wilhelm, who, according to his friend's advice, appeared in the uniform of an ensign of the city-guards, seated himself at the empty board just after the clock in the steeple had struck ten. [10]
And he began to have real stomach-ache now; and it ached because it was empty. [4]
He had refused to enter the empty sitting-room. [10]
Do you wish to empty the cup now? [10]
What was he to do alone in the vast empty palace? [10]
Procure a carpet to cover the empty place for the present. [10]
Melissa had hearkened to both counselors with eager ear, and both hung anxiously on her lips, while, as if taken out of herself, she gazed with panting bosom into the empty air. [10]
There was plenty to be seen, for it led to the Hippodrome and was never empty of foot-passengers and chariots that were proceeding thither or to Necropolis. [10]
She was about to ask Jethro his name when Ephraim came limping along and put the matter out of her mind, and the three went into the almost empty dining room. [9]
Deep silence reigned throughout the great empty house, but Kuni's heart had never throbbed so loudly. [10]
The road lay through the middle of an empty space which seemed to me to be a hundred yards wide between the fences. [5]
She no longer thought of the harm a piece of news might do her empty stomach, and, while mentally seeing the flutter of a matron's beautiful blue garment and the flash of Xanthe's rich dowry, eagerly asked the welcome messenger: "Does she speak the truth? [10]
But--and at the thought he uttered a low imprecation--how could he ride to the joust if his father-in-law closed his strong box which, moreover, was said to be empty? [10]
Then prove that those were no empty words, and be entreated by us. [10]
The cost of this structure would soon be recouped by the saving in labor, and with perfect certainty, if only the transport-ships were laden at Clysma with a profitable return freight of Alexandrian manufactures, instead of returning empty as they had hitherto done. [10]
The air was thick with tobacco-smoke, trays were scattered about, laden with stubs of cigars and ashes, and empty and half-filled glasses were everywhere. [11]
They believed that they had brought the transcendental within the grasp of intelligent sense, and that their empty speculations had carried them far beyond the narrow limits of the Ancients. [10]
Their footsteps, as they crossed the hardwood floors, echoed in the empty house. [9]
What little words they are, to tell of a rich world made empty and poor! [5]
During one of these attacks they carried off my empty portmanteau and my dressing gown. [2]
When we got there there warn't nobody stirring; streets empty, and perfectly dead and still, like Sunday. [5]
Just to empty themselves into the greater waters, there to be lost? [11]
The judge despised them with all his soul, but it is human nature not to wish to sit in a hall or a theatre that is three-quarters empty. [9]
You see, the theater is empty, and hundreds of the audience are a good way off in the feeding-house; the first bugle-call is blown about a quarter of an hour before time for the curtain to rise. [5]
When he closed the window he was empty. [5]
The public-houses by the wayside, from being empty and noiseless as those in the remoter parts had been, now sent out boisterous shouts and clouds of smoke; and, from the misty windows, clusters of broad red faces looked down upon the road. [12]
I will lead the way and you must keep behind me If only the kitchen is empty, we can reach the Viridarium unseen. [10]
Nodding at Simmons, the watchman, he hurried up the iron-shod stairs, gained the outer once, and instantly perceived that her chair beside the window was empty! [9]
Her bench beneath the venerable tree was empty, and with drooping head she approached the beloved resting-place, which she must leave forever on the morrow. [10]
When he returned, the street was empty. [11]
As soon as the square began to empty, Barine left her post of observation. [10]
An empty cask the size of a cathedral could excite but little emotion in me. [5]
When she reached the sidewalk, there was Ned standing beside the horses, and the carriage empty. [9]
The one was the residence of the old seigneur, Monsieur Duhamel; the other was the Manor Casimbault, empty now of all the Casimbaults. [11]
He eagerly swallowed the refreshing fluid, and when the little cup was empty Balbilla took it from his hand, refilled it, and gave it him again. [10]
Within a week the peasants who came with empty carts to carry off plunder were stopped by the authorities and made to cart the corpses out of the town. [2]
I can put the ore right there, I can send the coke back from here in cars which would otherwise be empty, and manufacture tubes at eight dollars a ton less than they are selling. [9]
It is like the opium-smoker's showing you the pipe from which he has just inhaled elysian bliss, empty of the precious extract which has given him his dream. [6]
It must make the neck uncommonly stiff, methinks, to have a knightly escutcheon on door and breast, and yet be able to fling florins and zecchins broadcast without offending the devil by an empty purse. [10]
The band in the nearly empty hotel parlor, in a mournful mood, was wooing the guests who did not come to a soothing tune, something like China--"Why do we mourn departed friends? [4]
The court-yard of the mosque was now empty, save for themselves alone. [11]
In the diningroom the metal lamp, brightly polished, was burning as usual, its light falling on the chequered red table-cloth, on her father's empty chair, on that somewhat battered heirloom, the horsehair sofa. [9]
He wandered to the library: it was empty. [11]
The shadows of the houses and palm-trees lay like dark strips of carpet across the road, which was nearly empty in spite of the evening coolness, which usually tempted the citizens out into the air. [10]
I felt that the house was all silent--the rooms were all empty. [14]
If, upon entering the ground-glass office, he found Eliphalet without the Colonel, Captain Lige would walk out again just as if the office were empty. [9]
The bench under the great tree was vacant, and the garden was empty. [9]
One half of the great fan of desks was in effect empty, vacant; in the other half several hundred members were bunched and jammed together as solidly as the bristles in a brush; and they also were waiting and expecting. [5]
To the barn, the great cavernous barn, its huge doors now wide open, the stalls vacant, the mows empty, the sunlight sifting in through the high shadowy spaces. [4]
Dull and dead the gods' bright nectar, Disencrowned of its foam; Duller, deader far the empty, Barren hearthstone of a home. [11]
When he saw the empty pigeon-hole in the cupboard, his sight swam. [11]
The procession passed the empty lodges, leaving the ground strewn with their weapons, and not one of their number stayed behind. [11]
He still held the empty glass in his hand, twisting it round musingly. [11]
Below him in the empty flume was the master-carpenter giving a last inspection to the repairs. [11]
The Burgrave deemed the Emperor's desire to maintain the Honourables' willingness to grant the large loan he intended to ask to fill his empty treasury still more weighty than those with which he had repulsed Herr Pfinzing. [10]
The circle of the drive was empty, the tea-party had gone--and Victoria. [9]
As she neared the doorway of the cottage, a few heavy drops began to fall, and, in spite of her bitter trouble, she quickened her footsteps, fearing that her grandfather had come back, to find the house empty and no light or supper ready. [11]
Before these events, the day was glorious with expectancy; after them, the day was a dead and empty thing. [5]
The Parrotts and the Dahlgrens roared, and the high bluffs flung out the sound over the empty swamp land. [9]
For some minutes the court-yard remained empty, then a man hurriedly crossed it, unlocked the door of the room where Klea was, and informed her that he was a subaltern under Glaucus, and had brought her a message from him. [10]
By twelve o'clock, the city began to empty itself upon the Theresien meadow; and long before the time for the king to arrive --two o'clock--there were acres of people waiting for the performance to begin. [4]

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