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Empty-handed   /ˈɛmpti-hˈændəd/   Listen
adjective
empty-handed  adj.  
1.
Having acquired or gained nothing; as, the returned from the negotiations empty-handed.
Synonyms: unrewarded.
2.
Carrying nothing in the hands.





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"Empty-handed" Quotes from Famous Books



... fleet of fishing boats. Of a sudden from out the blackness others appeared. Old Black Whiskers gave a muttered order, and like a well-drilled army the men were ready again, this time flocking to the side of the quay as the boats rode up, and waiting for them, empty-handed. Cleek turned to the nearest one, and spoke in a ...
— The Riddle of the Frozen Flame • Mary E. Hanshew
... reply. "They say that the mistress of the hacienda has escaped by a window. Her husband says she is absent. I don't care whether it's true or not. All I know is, that we can see nothing of her without; and we should have returned empty-handed, if good fortune hadn't thrown into our hands this gentleman here. I have no doubt he is a royalist spy, since he wanted to pass himself off for ...
— The Tiger Hunter • Mayne Reid
... "Bang, bang" went that gun below him again. With a roar of wings, Dusky and his flock were in the air and away. That hunter stood up and said things, and they were not nice things. He knew that those Ducks would not come back again that night, and that once more he must go home empty-handed. But first he would find out who that other hunter was and what luck he had had, so he tramped down the shore to where that gun had seemed to be. He found the blind of Farmer Brown's boy, but there was no one there. You see, as soon as he had fired his gun the last time, Farmer ...
— Blacky the Crow • Thornton W. Burgess
... him. "I thought that you would have been glad to see me; and I managed to bring a good many presents; only they are gone on to London. They could not be got at, to land them with me; but Captain Southcombe will be sure to send them. You must not suppose, because I am empty-handed now—" ...
— Springhaven - A Tale of the Great War • R. D. Blackmore
... of mothers reaching out into the street. They had come for food and coal—but we had to send most of them home empty-handed. Some of them cried—and one of them fainted. She's ...
— His Family • Ernest Poole


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