What is "empty-handed"

Usage examples of "empty-handed".

And when Adonai sent his Malakhim to retrieve her, she laughed, and opened the book and read aloud a word, commanding them by the Sacred Name to return empty-handed.

He had arrived early at Deseret Books, hoping to find a volume or two to give to Lauren so she could read up on blood atonement, at least as a historical entity, but came away from the store empty-handed and feeling slightly foolish.

He rarely returns empty-handed, but it took him a while to get the knack of spearfishing, and it took him even longer to recognize which varieties of Kudeshda fish are edible.

Part of me wanted something else to happen, but I was mostly relieved when the dew-drop swinging lad returned red-faced and empty-handed from the toolroom stores.

They carried parcels into the caverns, but when they returned to the beach they were empty-handed.

I came home for dinner, and Goudar, who had just been at their house, reported that the bailiff would only wait till four o'clock, that the two eldest daughters had come back empty-handed, and that they had been obliged to sell one of their dresses to buy a morsel of bread.

The bakings, consequently, which are estimated according to the quantity needed for a single day, become inadequate, and the last of those who wait at the bakers' shops for bread return home empty-handed.

Two friends eating burritos were a lot less suspicious than two empty-handed Fish and Game agents.

As you know, we ran that profile in CODIS and came back empty-handed, but what we just found out is the DNA from the earprint matches the DNA inside one of the gloves.

Our parliament have the vote on the war supply, and as Beaconsfield cannot go into the strife empty-handed on the issue of that vote hangs the destiny of many lives.

Why would Armstrong have paid a million francs for a Faberg~ egg, delivered it to a Swiss bank, and left less than an hour later, empty-handed?

You're not entirely human anymore, he reminded himself as he strode empty-handed through the airport terminal.

In 1936 they had both been on the national team that went to Adolf Hitler's Olympic Games in Berlin, but it had been Manfred De La Rey in the boxing ring who collected the only gold medal the team had won, while Shasa returned empty-handed.

It was not seemly for the girl Daalny to mingle with the brothers throughout the day, but she watched with tireless interest from the steps of the guesthall, as the hunters emerged from one doorway after another, from grange court to stable-yard, from the dortoir by the outer daystairs, into the cloister garth, out again by the scriptorium, across to the infirmary, and always empty-handed.

Susi's mom, who supports the Girl Scouts and never sends the Cancer Society lady away empty-handed, shrieks like a factory whistle at quitting time.