blankness

Example Sentences

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Blankness crept across the face of Mansfield's interpreter; then he recovered.

From Time Magazine Archive

Blankness had seized upon her, not because he had married a woman before her, but because he had not told.

From Country Neighbors by Brown, Alice

She strained her eyes down the driveway, Blankness.

From In Apple-Blossom Time A Fairy-Tale to Date by Burnham, Clara Louise

Blankness was for a moment on Mrs. Gereth's brow; then light broke—she visibly remembered the scene in the breakfast-room after Mona's night at Poynton.

From The Spoils of Poynton by James, Henry

Blankness then—some thick oppressive darkness suddenly shutting down upon him; some bewildering, vaguely sinister blanket of dread that stifled thought—then suddenly out of it and back again to "Ever heard o' Upabbot?"

From The Happy Warrior by Hutchinson, A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth)