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• The great rambling hotel is vacant, and its silence unbroken, save by the hastening to and fro of our willing host, who unites all offices of service in his own person, and the pattering of his pretty little boy's feet--the little fellow following him like his shadow, and, perchance, running away from other shadows in this great empty house. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
• I ask'd to be changed Wrote for Naples, then vacant--obtain'd it--and so Join'd my new post at once; but scarce reach'd it, when lo My first news from Paris informs me Lucile Is ill, and in danger. —  Lucile
• The professorship of history became again vacant, and he received, 1768, an offer of it from the duke of Grafton. —  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II
• Gamelin in his absent-minded clumsiness was too late to find one vacant, and had to pay a forfeit, the little knife he had bought for six sous at the fair of Saint-Germain and with which he had cut the loaf for his mother in her poverty. —  Dieux ont soif. English
• The post of secretary was left vacant, and it was announced that the king would be his own Secretary of State. —  History of the English People, Volume V (of 8) Puritan England, 1603-1660

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