With their increasing clearness of outline, the emptiness of the other arm-chair became a jarring outrage; it was as if, to one who has learnt to say, 'This one thing matters, this one thing I must have,' the curt reply is flung, 'This one thing for the present you must go lacking.
"The Furnace"
Rose Macaulay
But it had been the stomach with its chronic emptiness which had lashed the mind and body to desperate efforts with sufficient courage to face the danger.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
I find myself utterly unable to outline the emptiness of our existence.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook