Banquets held on fish days could be splendid, and were popular occasions for serving illusion food that imitated meat, cheese and eggs in various ingenious ways; fish could be molded to look like venison and fake eggs could be made by stuffing empty egg shells with fish roe and almond milk and cooking it in coals.
From Mount Etna the author sadly looked at the stain made by a muddy river emptying into the sea while his brother said no one ever cares about Sicily in time & the best soil has long ago washed out to sea, and his wife cut yet another sprig of ivy.
The experimenter counted the number of caches made in the two locations by emptying each of the individual pots of sand.
Paul Krugman describes the empty promises made by President Bush regarding the rebuilding of both Iraq and New Orleans, and the economic effects of those failures.
Fishermen bewailing empty nets made by their own hand, just as their fathers and their grandfathers did, all the way back to the time of Jesus before he bade them to become fishers of men.
All of the empty promises made by AIM amounted to nothing but words.
Right now, many Georgians are seeing their premiums skyrocket by double-digits, their hours cut back because of the employer mandate, and less access to the doctors of their choice because of the empty promises made by President Obama.
Poems (1933): XXX In railway halls, on pavements near the traffic, They beg, their eyes made big by empty staring And only measuring Time, like the blank clock.
"The choice is made by the people — these are not empty words, this is absolutely so," he said.
Still, voters like Garcia worry that De Blasio's promises will prove as empty as those made by others before him.
