1 For a while she sat motionless, as if reflecting, her arms stretched along the arms of her chair, her eyes fixed on vacancy.
2 There was a considerable vacancy between the boat and the ship, and down between this was the sea.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story. 3 At the crotch or junction, these flukes slightly overlap, then sideways recede from each other like wings, leaving a wide vacancy between.
4 They dance in monotonous measure, round after round, hour after hour, with eyes fixed upon vacancy, as if they were only half conscious, in a constantly growing stupor.
5 Then there appeared upon the glazed vacancy of his eyes a diamond point of intelligence.
6 There was a vast vacancy between her, the singing villagers and the piping child.
7 Yet still in his face one saw the watchful look, the slight vacancy of a cripple.
8 Getting a vacancy did not seem to be such a very easy matter, after all.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE 9 Suppose that some one turned up in your place who wrote a completely different hand from that in which you had applied for the vacancy, of course the game would have been up.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IV. The Adventure of The Stockbroker's Clerk 10 Tom lifted his lip and showed the vacancy.
11 For a year he had held this rank, and expected promotion on the first vacancy.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 30. The Fifth of September. 12 The eye of the invalid still retained that vacancy of expression which prevented his son from obtaining any knowledge of the feelings which were passing in his mind; he listened, nothing more.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 58. M. Noirtier de Villefort. 13 Nay, the surly father even began to agitate with the authorities on Chichikov's behalf, and so enabled our hero, on a vacancy occurring, to attain the stool of a Chief Clerk.
14 A vacancy in the heart does not accommodate itself to a stop-gap.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRES... 15 "I ought, but I don't," thought Amy, as her eye went from the bright page to May's discontented face behind the big vases, that could not hide the vacancies her pretty work had once filled.