emptiness
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There are five different sizes of octagonal plates to organise your emptinesses.
From The Guardian • Dec. 1, 2019
They come out of the sea like Portuguese men-of-war and then, amphibious, as if in some Darwinian drama, sail off to litter another of the earth's last emptinesses.
From Time Magazine Archive
The worlds are built out of these voids, these emptinesses, which seem to us "nothing" but are divine force.
From Occult Chemistry Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical Elements by Sinnett, A. P.
How was the Christian message meeting all the dreary emptinesses and limitations of village life?
From John Wesley, Jr. The Story of an Experiment by Brummitt, Dan B.
Nothing quite so tragic in the home as the two emptinesses or aridities side by side, with all the poor, mean, morally sordid consequences that are bound to ensue!
From Child Versus Parent Some Chapters on the Irrepressible Conflict in the Home by Wise, Stephen
Vocabulary lists containing emptiness
"Just Lather, That's All" and "The Woman Who Was Death"
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