Such is today the reasoning of the entire democratic press, which I forgive with all my heart for having at last, by this quasi-socialistic confession of faith, itself proclaimed the emptiness of its theories.
Matter is not koilon, but the absence of koilon, and at first sight, matter and space appear to have changed places, and emptiness has become solidity, solidity has become emptiness.
I answered he knew that was at present out of my power, as I had informed him of the emptiness of my pocket.
Only those who realised the shrewd emptiness behind them were able to discern what some one had once called their flickering "R.
He sank back upon the cushions with a strange blankness and emptiness in his mind.
What, thought I, is this vast assemblage of sepulchres but a treasury of humiliation--a huge pile of reiterated homilies on the emptiness of renown and the certainty of oblivion?
Though constantly complaining of the emptiness of his purse, yet he scruples not to spend all his pocket-money in these tavern convocations, and even runs up scores for the liquor over which he preaches about his father's extravagance.
Even his work no longer promised him a way out of the wilderness, but it might keep him from brooding over the astounding emptiness of life.
He heard the water spilling from its sides, and knew that the blue arms were there, battling to arrest it as it flew, and to pay him back once more with emptiness and mockery.
From the thronged high-road we passed into the emptiness of deserted Poperinghe, and out again on the way to Ypres.
Others were so honest to tell the Truth, that they knew the emptiness and weakness of the pretence all along, and knew what they did when they Preacht it up, viz.
He went to the vague emptiness of the field opposite, dutifully.
Still she stood on the platform, feeling a great emptiness about her.
She was going away, to deny him, to leave an unendurable emptiness in him, a void that he could not bear.
He went up the stairs, in dread of the empty house--the horrible emptiness that made his heart ring with insanity.
He relapsed gracefully into a quietemptiness out of which he was able to derive final embalming fluid for his vanity by pitying the distractions and unrest of others.
Why should any man care so deeply as to stand between her and the emptiness of the world?
For awhile she hurried, fighting her choking terror of the emptiness that was left.
East and west, wide and silent, the unknown emptiness lapped it in.
There was a disappointing emptiness in the street.
OBAA-SAN Forever--could I but fill this emptiness in my mother-heart.
Every time you speak the name, the emptinessof my life stands before me like a royal Kakemono all covered with unliving people.
And as they watched, the depressing bareness and emptinessof that gray-black expanse was changing.
And again he found silence and emptiness and a disorder that told of a fear-stricken flight.
Justice Van Fleet of the supreme court of California recently rendered an opinion which indicates the utter emptiness of our boast that in this land all men are equal before the law.
Now all their promise was an emptinessand a mockery.
It was nearly midnight, but the hour found Whitaker in no humour for bed or the emptiness of his room.
Thrusting her bare feet into moccasins and slipping on a sweater, she stepped into the white world that had the still emptiness of space.
Each of us carried painful wounds, frost bites; and the ever chronic emptiness of half filled stomachs brought a gastric call for food, impossible to supply.
But it had been the stomach with its chronic emptiness which had lashed the mind and body to desperate efforts with sufficient courage to face the danger.
Anything would be better than the silent emptiness of the great tent.
But by theemptiness of heart, by the emptiness of the passageway, by the empty sound of the various greetings, joyous and hearty as they in truth were, I knew I needed no fourth sign to interpret myself to myself.
He dwelt likewise upon the emptiness of his pockets, turned over the papers in his pocket-book, and convinced himself of the state of absolute destitution in which he was about to be plunged.
But the feeling of emptiness was there, as real as hunger, and at this moment as persistent.
What I want," cried Douglas, "is something to take away thisemptiness inside of me.
