Sentence examples for empty wood from inspiring English sources

In July, President Sirleaf closed all general markets near the country's border, and the empty wood stalls, half-collapsing from disuse, felt like pillaged ground.

The whiskey has been aged at least four years, then transferred for four to six months into empty wood barrels once used for ruby port.

It is a perfect illustration of the show's title, consisting of an empty wood chest (a void) that initiates, when opened, the sound of voices repeating "I love you".

He looked around the empty wood-panelled room.

But that ended in the late 40's, and the lean years left Deep River with a stretch of mostly empty, wood-frame buildings, some of them leaning, on the north end of Main Street.

He also rode for miles on sand trails through the empty woods before the advent of the Pinelands Commission and its strict land-use regulations.

"Lying on his side, he breathed heavily and yelled his frustration into the empty woods," Robert Ford writes of Cooper Barrow, the protagonist of his new novel, "The Student Conductor".

The scene in which Roberta drowns, for instance, has a haunting strangeness: Clyde's consciousness, never very full to begin with, and now divided between murder and guilt, is deranged further by the dark beauty of the lake, the cry of unfamiliar birds, the empty woods that offer haven and escape.

"When I was born here, it was a city of a million, and all the hills that we see from here, there were no buildings there, they were sometimes empty, sometimes woods.

The initial attack by Bauduin's brigade emptied the wood and park, but was driven back by heavy British artillery fire, and cost Bauduin his life.

"It was under some bylaw that was designed to stop people from emptying their wood stove ovens on the sidewalk," he says.