But, in later years, he had developed a potent fear of darkness in an empty house.

NEWYORKER: Heirs

In April he spent ten days caring for an empty house in France.

FORBES

For dual-earner families, the benefit of putting a school near a workplace -- rather than near an empty house -- is obvious.

FORBES: Build it and they will come

There's no way we'll search an empty house.

WSJ: Meanwhile, in the War in Afghanistan...

Local Democratic Unionist councillor Roger Hutchinson said he believed the attack may have been connected to an Irish tricolor flag, which was put up on the roof of an empty house two doors away last week.

BBC: News Online

People piled into a small car, and in an instant the house was empty and still.

NEWYORKER: No Secrets

The man himself often lived up to his bleak dream-world: lean, intense, racked by stomach complaints, and with a special fondness for the rugged limestone island of Faro, off Sweden's east coast, where he built a low stone house on an empty sweep of rock.

ECONOMIST: Ingmar Bergman

Last year, when the House Republicans were passing the cut, cap and balance rule, the White House called it an empty political statement.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

The first night we slept in a school, the second night in an empty building and last night we made use of a Government house with enough beds for half of the group.

BBC: NEWS | Africa | Darfur aid worker's diary XVII

While the house is not scheduled to reopen as an art gallery for another two years, the parkland and empty galleries will be open for the public from two weeks on Saturday.

BBC: Stone exhibit on a roll

This was my life, these were the times when I was true: in these half hours here and there when I felt alone in the house, or those fleeting moments out on the road, when I opened a gate and crossed an empty farmyard, a stranger, even to myself, in the quiet of the afternoon.

NEWYORKER: The Cold Outside