"Vacant" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... AGRICULTURE.—The Senate on Friday, the 29th ult., confirmed the nomination of the Hon. Horace Capron as Commissioner of Agriculture to fill the position made vacant by the death of Isaac Newton, the former head of ...
— Scientific American, Vol. 17, No. 26 December 28, 1867 • Various
... 2. When he was standing, he did not occupy the middle of the gate-way; when he passed in or out, he did not tread upon the threshold. 3. When he was passing the vacant place of the prince, his countenance appeared to change, and his legs to bend under him, and his words came as if he hardly had breath to utter them. 4. He ascended the reception hall, holding up his robe with both his hands, and his body bent; holding in his breath also, as if he ...
— The Chinese Classics--Volume 1: Confucian Analects • James Legge
... some better office than that of which I have been deprived. Now, I do not think that I can, preserving my self-respect, accept of any compromise. No other office can be offered me that will not have been made vacant by the removal of a Democrat; and, even if there were such an office, still, as charges have been made against me, complete justice can be done only by placing me exactly where I was before. This also would ...
— Memories of Hawthorne • Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
... less serene and kind, Surely thou mightest (like the bard sublime), Scorned by a generation deaf and blind, Make thine appeal to the avenger TIME; For thou art none of those who upward climb, Gathering roses with a vacant mind. Ne'er have thy hands for jaded triflers twined Sick flowers of rhetoric and weeds of rhyme. Nay, thine hath been a Prophet's stormier fate. While LINCOLN and the martyr'd legions wait In the yet widening blue of yonder sky, On the great strand below them thou art seen, Blessing, ...
— Walt Whitman Yesterday and Today • Henry Eduard Legler
... vacant scholarship, and I will let you name a friend of yours to fill it. I would like a minister's daughter. Is there any dear little twelve-year-old girl who would like to come to my school, and whose parents would like to send her, but cannot afford so much expense? Because, if there ...
— Holiday Stories for Young People • Various
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