Hormisdas died in 523, and a vacancyof six days only ensued, when Pope John I.
The firstvacancy of the Holy See, after the extinction of the western emperor by the death of Pope Simplicius, in 483, witnessed the beginning of the Acacian schism.
A papal vacancy was reckoned from the burial of the deceased Pope to the consecration of the Pope elect.
Theodorich allowed Hormisdas to be elected Pope after a vacancy of the see for one single day.
Is this a pattern laid up in heaven, or mere vacancy on which he is supposed to gaze with wondering eye?
The vacancy of such a form was perceived by Aristotle, but not by Plato.
But we may observe, that while he is aware of the vacancy of his own ideal, he is full of enthusiasm in the contemplation of it.
Opposite him with gestures that swept over vacancy sat Gleissner the poet in all the brilliancy of his false elegance, with a colossal black cravat in which a red stone scintillated.
The telegram clearly indicated that there was a vacancy for the post of conductor.
He was preparing to qualify for a place on the board, for there was going to be a vacancy by superannuation in about five years.
It seemed, however, as if every sigh had left a vacancy in the stomach of the canonico.
Well then, retrenching some of my licentious tales, I must endeavour to fill up the vacancywith some serious and some pathetic.
A meeting of the electors was called to consider of the manner in which the vacancyshould be supplied.
The elevation of Mr Abercromby to the peerage in May 1839, caused a vacancy in the representation of the city of Edinburgh.
It is proposed that for every vacancy in the civil service four candidates shall be named, and the best candidate selected by examination.
The latter, however, had but few weeks to enjoy his new position, dying in November of the same year, and leaving another vacancy on the bench to be filled.
In 1834, a vacancy was created on the supreme court bench by the death of Chief-Justice Saunders.
And it might be that very knowledge had given to her face its apathy and vacancy more than her low, torpid life.
There was no warmth, no brilliancy, no summer for this woman; so the stupor and vacancy had time to gnaw into her face perpetually.
In case of a vacancy in the presidential office, the minister of interior becomes the "vice-president of the republic" and discharges the duties of the executive office until a successor can be legally elected.
It gives vacancy and room for it, and it gives strength and furniture(444) for it.
And this freedom and vacancy from the unsupportable yoke of guilt, will certainly dispose the soul, and make it more capable of receiving the easy and portable yoke of his commandments.
Faith has a kind of present vacancy and quietness in it, in the very acting of it.
At which time there happened to be a vacancyin the college of Glasgow, by the resignation of Mr. James Dalrymple of Stair, who had been Mr. Binning’s Master.
They appointed him to a vacancy which had meanwhile occurred in the Gordon Highlanders, and gave him a company and a boat in the River Column.
With the Waddell Institute Berry had Influence, and at last a coveted vacancy had been obtained.
All through a wretched night the pitifulvacancy at the foot of my bed reminded me brutally of my loss.
He stepped over to the window, and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the vacancy was filled.
This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is willing to fill a vacancy in the League.
My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for a few minutes, he said that it would be all right.
Getting a vacancy did not seem to be such a very easy matter, after all.
The calamities caused by the late vacancy of the empire are not likely to be brought to a speedy end, and what will it be should new disturbances be accumulated on the former?
I remember all the memoirs of that time agree in the Archduke’s being very young, but they all likewise added, that an Emperor under age was better than a vacancy of the throne, which amounts to an approbation of a regular succession.
On thevacancy of any great office, my apartment was crowded with competitors, who all had a genteel competency; but they wanted profitable posts, to make a show in the world.
The calamities still recent, said that Ambassador, which the vacancy of the Imperial throne, on the demise of Charles VI.
It is probable that he had been elected a Knight of the Garter early in the reign, at the same time as his eldest brother, the Prince of Wales, but at that time there was no vacancy for him to fill.
The death of the Duke of Exeter in January 1427 had left the post of tutor to the King vacant, and hitherto this vacancy had not been filled.
Then another long, rising shriek in the boy’s treble, shuddered across the vacancy of sea and sky—a shriek that ended with sickening suddenness.
The cessation of the ticking of his chronometer left a strange vacancy in his soul.
The vacancy in the Common Pleas was caused by the resignation of Sir William Draper Best, who was created Lord Wynford for the purpose of assisting the Chancellor with the judicial business of the House of Lords.
The death of Sir Samuel Romilly in November 1818 caused a vacancy in the representation of Westminster, and another election took place upon the meeting of Parliament.
As long as the emperors retained the prerogative of bestowing on every vacancy these ecclesiastic and secular benefices, their cause was maintained by the gratitude or ambition of their friends and favorites.
Having, we may suppose, been assigned to the first vacancy that occurred in any of the royal colleges, his first destination had been Tiron, the roughest and most remote of the twelve.
His look was riveted on the vacancywhere the upper apartments of the block had stood, and where he had last seen the family, calling, in their extremity, on their Deity for aid.
The latter position he filled very creditably and when a vacancy occurred by reason of the resignation of Lieutenant Grow, he was elevated to the Second Lieutenancy, which office he held until the batteries were discharged.
His studious habits and his morality soon commended him to his superior officers who recommended him for the first vacancy which occurred.
She gazed into vacancy with a sore and anxious heart, and, as an insane violinist lures the same tone from the instrument again and again, she constantly returned to the same thought, "Lost!
When the maid had removed the dishes, Barbara continued her reverie, and even her father had never gazed into vacancy with such gloomy earnestness.
