The screen was folded back, showing the empty crib.

"All those empty cribs," she said, and her voice became a sob.

The empty crib was put away.

It was not his policy to pry open an empty crib.

As he recovered from a comatose state, he had a persistent vision of an empty white crib, from which baby cries could be heard.

She wasn't sure she could bear the deadly silence that consumed a home with an empty crib again.

I yanked him into an unoccupied room that had two empty cribs in it and repeated, "What?

She needed something, a little something to hold on to, to get her through another night when she goes in and looks at an empty crib.

But with it was a sorrow for another mother in another city with an empty crib to face.

They stood, with the empty crib between them.