All the swordsmen in this town seemed to have empty pockets.

Golf, too, has emptied pockets, wrecked homes and caused hours lost from work.

Ten minutes earlier, he had gone through Harlan's empty pockets, observed the man's twisted body and blood-soaked head.

The remnants were then placed in an individual's empty pockets and magically would be replaced by glittering gold at exactly midnight that night.

Harvath filed that part of the scene away, and once they had gone through the dead men's empty pockets, he led the team deeper into the facility.

"I am afraid I am in a rather embarrassing position," Gabriel said when the waitress went away and he'd patted the jacket's empty pockets.

Ricardo Mayorga kept talking all week, saying he would drop Vernon Forrest, shake up the welterweight division and put large sums of money in his family's empty pockets in Managua, Nicaragua.

Stuffing them into Sanders's empty pockets, he pulled him through a window into the rear alley, and from there into the adjacent street, transformed by the overhead lattices into a tunnel of vermilion light.

She later recounted the she "had to face the awful fact that we had empty pockets, no publisher, no advertisers, and no manuscripts, let alone a system for peer review of those proposed articles."

Suddenly, the state has empty pockets, and the big brother who stepped in to pull New York City from the brink in 1975 is in no position to help solve Fiscal Crisis II.

I couldn't get Stefan or any of the rest of it out of my mind - Stefan, the cube, Stefan's empty pockets, and the empty Lodge, empty of everything except that incredible contraption that the sheriff had thought might be some sort of game.