The next day the fever was very violent, and he had himself removed and his bed set by the great bath, and discoursed with his principal officers about finding fit men to fill up the vacant places in the army.
It was close to us, thevacant door-way in it going out straight into the blackness outside.
The light shook in Bagley's hand, but, tremulous though it was, shone out through the vacant door, one oblong block of light marking all the crumbling corners and hanging masses of foliage.
We heard it coming along the grass straight towards the vacant door-way.
Of the one hundred and six "apartments," only four were vacant in August.
A half-grown girl with a baby in her arms walked about among the dead and dying with a stunned, vacant look, singing in a low, scared voice to the child.
But as he had no access to the street from his building for many years it could not be let or used for anything, and remained vacant until it passed under the management of the Gotham Court property.
All things that are seen to be stored in this vacant city, of the vacuous world, are all of them polluted by the lickerishness of the mind, licking at them from inside the house of its body.
The variegated picture of the world, which is drawn by the painter of the mind in the empty air, is as void as the vacant air itself, and yet appearing as prominent as a figure in relief, and as plain as a pikestaff.
All these being the vacant production of vacuum, are swallowed up likewise in the vacuous womb of an infinite vacuity; they are no more than hollow shadows of emptiness, and stretched out in empty air.
He whose mind is as vacant as the empty air, is called a mahatma or great soul, and his mind resting in the state of unity, remains with the body in a state of sound sleep.
They advanced some distance ere they found a vacant space.
That's he," Frank whispered, Hastily he drew his half reluctant father into a vacant box.
She had expected the reassurance of pain in her sense of sin; but the meaning of what she had done was so utterly vacant that it frightened her.
The car went on, they were out of town among suburban roads and vacant lots.
He could hear her going into the moon, into darkness, into the vacantsky beyond the trees.
He jumped up, walked twice around the room, and stopped, gazing down at Catherine with a vacant deliberate amusement.
Later on two companies were sent to fill in the vacant space between the right flank of the 10th and the corps that held the village of St. Julien.
I immediately offered the vacant adjutancy to Captain Warren, but he declined it, saying that he now had the cares of a company on his shoulders and was taking a great deal of enjoyment out of it.
Whenever any repartimientos of Indians become vacant in the said islands, you shall apportion some of the Indians to my crown, as an aid toward the said pay.
DC pesos It possesses, further, six hundred pesos, which were granted to it by the president from the encomienda which fell vacant because of the death of Don Luis de Sahajosa, in Ylocos.
Last year I reported to your Majesty that, because of the death of Doña Ana de Palacios, there had been left vacant an encomienda owned by her in Camarines.
Moreover, at the end of December of the past year, eighty-eight, the encomienda owned by Don Luis de Sagajosa at Ylocos was left vacant by his death.
In situation it was lonely, and from other houses separated by a quarter of a mile of dying trees and vacant lots.
Toward the Sound stretched vacant lots covered with ash heaps; to the left a few old and broken houses set among the glass-covered cold frames of truck-farms.
In the Scottish Church the custom is to go to the vacant parish to preach a trial sermon, isn't it?
He wondered who had sent him the paper, and then his thoughts naturally turned to the vacant parish.
In the course of a week or ten days he had presented himself as a candidate for the vacant church of Myredale, and made arrangements for appearing in the pulpit there on a certain Sunday in August.
Imagine the good Mr Burnett's surprise and interest when this pleasant stranger proved to be intimately acquainted with the vacant parish of Myredale, and described it as a second Garden of Eden!
Yet happier he whose inward sight, Stayed on his subtile thought, Shuts his sense on toys of time, To vacant bosoms brought.
The men approached the house, and after summoning her to leave it instantly, a summons which the poor woman heard in vacant astonishment, immediately prepared to unroof her humble habitation.
The dark figures within wandered about in restless pain, like ghosts uncongenial to the light, or gazed forth with vacant eyes upon the rejoicing country, and dazzling sea.
The gentle heart lay in a kind of stupor, a dead and vacant sleep; she hardly felt it beat.
Between this grave and that of Anne Boleyn intervened a plain stone, unmarked by any inscription, and indicating a vacant tomb.
If the Earl of Devonshire is restored by my means to liberty and to the position he has lost with the queen, I trust the service will not be unremembered, but that I may be promoted to some vacant post.
A vacant place on this side of her husband was allotted to Jane.
She lived alone at the Hôtel de Combray in the Rue du Trepot at Falaise, a very large house composed of two main buildings, one of which was vacantowing to the absence of Timoléon who had settled in Paris.
He nevertheless agreed to lodge Allain and Flierlé in the vacant building in the Faubourg Saint-Laurent.
A man showed the Beechams a vacant house in the long rows.
Yes, they could pitch their tent there, the man in the office said; there was onevacant floor.
His brain seemed vacant and his very nostrils turned white.
And yet what a lonely city it was, stranded on the edge of the still half-vacant western section of the United States, with all the Pacific before it.
The interior is now a vacant space, except for the few fragments of masonry that serve to indicate what once was there.
Shortly after this event his name was mentioned in connection with the then vacant rectory of Gawsworth, and an effort was made, through the interest of the Mainwaring family, to secure his induction under the Broad Seal.
The cockpit stood on what was then called the “lord’s waste,” the vacant land in the rear of the Market Sted, which still retains the name of Cockpit Hill.
This coffin, being well soldered, was enclosed in another of wood, all the vacant spaces having been filled with dried aromatic herbs.
He passed him, and went slowly up through the vacant mill to his chamber.
Did he know that it was a balked, defeated life, that waited for him, vacant of the triumphs he had planned?
Standing there, if the vacant life coming rose up before her in that hard blare of sunlight, she looked at it with the same still, waiting eyes, that told nothing.
A hungry face always, with her life unfed by its stingy few crumbs of good; but to-night it was vacant with utter loss.
We have something better to fight for than a vacant tomb.
The fingers were plucking at each other again; and a strange, vacant smile on her face, trying to look glad.
He had occupied, for a while, the vacant room of one of the Equerries, leaving in the bed the impress of his sooty figure.
She was told that there was no situation vacant that he could fill.
I write, be getting ready for luncheon, and you will find a place vacant where I sat yesterday.
Officials entitled to admission on the floor of the Senate began to make their appearance and to occupy the vacant chairs, the Senators having doubled up on one side of the Chamber.
Speaker Randall then entered, followed by the Representatives, who filled up what vacantroom remained.
They consoled themselves by turning out nearly all of the officers of the Senate, many of whom were old and faithful servants, and dividing the places thus made vacant among their relatives and henchmen.
The House, where there were also many vacant seats, elected Galusha A.
There were many vacant seats, but some of those who sympathized with the South lingered that they might throw obstacles before any attempt at coercion.
Unlike the representatives of the legislative power, who had treated their quarters in Washington as mere "tents of a night," the army had taken all the vacant houses in Washington.
When Congress assembled there were many vacant seats at either end of the Capitol.
Having an objection to taking leave, he was in the habit of disappearing without notice, and leaving his rooms vacant when the fancy took him.
The place left vacant by the rejected William was taken by Prince Leopold, with whom Stockmar came to England.
The denial of the existence of God and of a Future State, in a word, is the dethronement of conscience; and society will pass, to say the least, through a dangerous interval before social science can fill the vacant throne.
Laurence, so vivid was his conception of past times, would hardly have deemed it strange if its former occupants, one after another, had resumed the seat which they had each left vacant such a dim length of years ago.
But forth he goes; and there stands our old chair, vacant and solitary, till good Master Cheever resumes his seat in it to-morrow morning.
The duchess half-sank against Othomar when she saw Elizabeth tear past her with wild, vacant eyes and out at a door, her long, white velvet train trailing madly after her, round the corner.
As he did so, the men on the bench moved along and one of the men who were standing took the vacant seat.
Small tables are placed about the vacant places and at these tables sit owners of houses, madames and inmates, pimps, runners, and lighthouses.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vacant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
