It was only later, when upon the white flash of another high sea hurling itself amidships, Jukes had a vision of two pairs of davits leaping black and empty out of the solid blackness, with one overhauled fall flying and an iron-bound block capering in the air, that he became aware of what had happened within about three yards of his back.
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In November, police posing as nightclub glass collectors found eight empty glasses out of 200 in a Chelmsford night spot had been spiked.
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Black light posters, candleholders made out of empty Miller quart bottles, Farrah Fawcett pinups and battered skateboards lining the walls.
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General Growth, however, has a fine record of filling empty space and figuring out novel ways to squeeze more out of space that's already rented.
The storage rooms near the grain silos have been gutted and left empty, circuit breakers ripped out of electrical boxes, leaving only a few dangling wires.
Surrounding portraits of survivors in their new American lives is an array of empty frames, symbolizing those who never made it out of Europe, and whom a more vigorous rescue effort might have saved.
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She did not tell anyone that she spent much of her time looking out at the Pacific from empty beaches, some of them narrow with coarse sand, though farther north many of the beaches were rocky, desolate in the falling dusk, when seagulls circled hungrily and waves deposited dead seaweed.
They spent half a day sucking it out of the vehicles, but then threw out the empty jugs we needed to get refills -- if fuel ever reappeared.
Five years ago Best Buy's managers realized that too many potential customers were walking out of its stores empty-handed because its salespeople couldn't explain the goods in the display cases.
Seated in Kahn's Assembly Building in Dacca, Bangladesh, a professor of architecture, Shamsul Wares, tells Nathaniel that his father "was no ordinary man, " and gives a passionate recital of how the architect's vision conjured great buildings out of desolate, empty land.
Thousands of new flats are empty and brand new blocks of unsold ones line roads out of Tirana, Durres, Vlora and other towns.
When the silence of an empty room ignites a visceral impending doom reaction, challenge why you shudder out of terror.
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Madrid, in danger of finishing the season empty-handed after losing the King's Cup final and crashing out of the Champions League, went behind after just two minutes when Valdo put the visitors ahead.
But the half-empty marina has turned out to be a bit of a nightmare for Stockton.
The whiskey bottle was there, out of his reach, two empty glasses beside it, his own, empty now also, in his hand.
As she tramped beside Hilda on the way back, the day draining out of the sky seemed to empty her, too, leaving her weightless.
The fire broke out in the avionics compartment of an empty Dreamliner shortly after it had arrived and passengers had disembarked.
Besides, who's going to cut the grass, or sweep the litter out of the parking lot, or empty the outside trash barrels?
If Daniel knocks me out of the way in his haste to empty the Diaper Genie, who am I to complain?
By May 15, Jakarta's roads were empty of everyday traffic, smoke drifted from burned-out buildings.
By some twist of luck, she had a brother who was out of town, who happened to have an empty apartment near the Bastille.
But its perverse incentives also led to factories churning out stuff no one wanted, while shops were empty of the things they craved, from fresh meat to fridges.
Slate-grey armchairs and blonde-wood cabinets are arranged around the half-empty showroom, picked out by spotlights, and with plaques detailing the genesis of each design.
And rather than pay benefits out of a pot of past contributions, notional accounts remain empty, leaving pensions to be financed from current taxes, sometimes supplemented by a central trust fund.
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Some of the properties are rented out as holiday lets and were empty at the time.
It is only now coming out of beta mode, so the site still feels a tad empty and even buggy.
When the baby-boomers start to retire in large numbers, they will empty out workplaces such as public services that now have lots of staff in their 50s.
The fire was in a building previously used by Gloucestershire College of Art and Technology which has been empty since the college moved out in 2007.
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Once under way, television footage of rows of empty seats at venues long assumed by home fans to be sold out had threatened to become a defining narrative that distracted from the events themselves.
There were even pre-round shenanigans when Bradley went into the champions' locker room Thursday morning to find his clubs spread out on the floor and his open umbrella near his empty golf bag, courtesy of Dufner.
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