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Meanings of empty ship in English

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Usage of empty ship in English
1
You ought to know that to turn back means an empty ship.
Foster's Letter of Marque: A Tale of Old Sydney / 1901
2
But there was just the profound silence of an empty ship in space.
Mortal Dictata
3
He went on through the cold, echoing, empty ship and down the gangplank to the submarine.
On the Beach
4
The fellow turned pale at this news, and cast a glance up and down the empty ship.
Sir Ludar / A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess
5
He noticed that they talked as though they had left behind them nothing but an empty ship.
Lord Jim
6
A more than half- empty ship, she now slipped from her berth and turned her bows towards home.
The Road to Mandalay: A Tale of Burma
7
Well, we take Manning, dress him up in one of our outfits and stick him aboard the empty ship alongside.
Treachery in Outer Space
8
Playing at the ECIU board was better than wandering around an empty ship or staring at the vacant seats surrounding her.
The Complete Alien Omnibus
9
They took the poultry for their own use, and dismissed some of "the meanest of the prisoners" in the empty ship.
On the Spanish Main; Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of D...
10
An hour later, as gray-clad customs men finished searching the empty ship, Roger waited for final clearance at the air lock of the freighter.
On the Trail of the Space Pirates
11
Things went the other way, and we left him only an empty ship, which maybe was more than he would have spared to us.
Havelok the Dane: A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln
12
He moved aft, deck hatches opening at his approach and slamming shut behind him as he went, the sound echoing through the empty ship.
Cibola Burn
13
That the cheers might have come from those listless, empty ships.
Man of War
14
They had apparently even emptied ships' sewage reprocessing plants there.
The Andalite Chronicles
15
Otherwise we must burn the empty ships, said Sosius.
The Memoirs of Cleopatra
16
Engineers had already begun to drag the empty ships from the beach and disassemble them.
Book Two: Descent
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