But why enter an empty house, where there was nothing to steal except the heavy furniture left by the late tenant, a Mr Washington, who was abroad?
But this was an empty house, looked after by a somewhat bibulous caretaker of the name of Miles.
The poor devil wanted to make an end of it, and crept in here, knowing it was an empty house.
Some years ago there was an empty house opposite to mine, which brought such thoughts as these to my mind.
It began about an empty house, and has run through the fortunes of a family.
What purpose lay behind Lord Randolph Churchill's silence at Sheffield or lurked in Lord Carnarvon's 'empty house'?
But why enter an empty house, where there was nothing to steal except the heavy furniture left by the late tenant, a Mr. Washington, who was abroad?
Things had been going on better than could have been expected in the large, empty house, where Belle, thinner and paler as the days of intense heat went by, did the honours cheerfully.
Yet it was a busy day in that quiet, empty house; for in India death comes rudely.
Her shrill laughter rang through the empty house, making an old woman glance upwards from the lower court.
The young woman was not with him, and as I realized that he had left her behind him in the great, empty house, without apparent light and certainly without any companion, I began to question if this was like Franklin Van Burnam.
But as I did not take her to Gramercy Park, the fact that the deceased woman entered an empty house accompanied by a man, is proof enough to me that she was not Louise Van Burnam.
He prizes his honor above every consideration, and regarded it as threatened by the suggestion that his wife had entered his father's empty house at midnight with another man.
And he needs it--I mean an empty house," declared Michael.
We found him--in an empty house," explained Grace.
She thought she had found Margaret alone in an empty house, cold and starving to death, and she was trying to remember just what principles of first aid to apply, when she awoke and found it was only a dream.
I'd like to come out here and visit thatempty house with a policeman," she replied.
Mary Louise explained, for Margaret's benefit as well as for her father's, about deciphering the code letter and coming up to Center Square and breaking into the empty house in search of the valuables.
It was an empty house, and so he knew that he would not be disturbed in the garden.
It has been found in the front garden of an empty house in Campden House Road.
The place was pitch-dark, but it was evident to me that it was an empty house.
An instant later steps crept down the passage--steps which were meant to be silent, but which reverberated harshly through the empty house.
His home like an empty house; the office like an empty house; now no refuge here.
If this was their destination it was neither to one side nor directly behind the empty house used as an entrance.
From far away the response echoed as through an empty house.
As far as the first floor was concerned they stood in an empty house.
The parcels felt heavier than ever, and she had not proceeded very far before she was compelled to put the bag down again upon the pavement, outside an empty house.
Nimrod and Sawkins accordingly took shelter in the doorway of an empty house, leaving the handcart at the kerb, while Crass went across the street and knocked at Philpot's door.
If the 'job' was at an empty house, Misery's yarn was that it was let!
I am hungry enough to break into the Bank of England if it resulted in something to eat, but what can we find in an empty house?
Clearly the family party before them was not the young man wanted in Wilton for stealing a motor-car and a suit of clothes, but for all that, what were they doing in an empty house?
When it gets to about 2 o'clock, this old skate in petticoats goes toinin' nutty ag'in about d' empty house.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "empty house" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
