Nothing could be seen on either side of the bridge, just a vast, black emptiness.

Dan asked, peering into the black emptiness beyond the windows.

Still shaking he rose and faced the black emptiness ahead.

He thought he could see through them into a black emptiness inside.

No, he had felt the black emptiness in place of his father's life energies.

Between them the square opening yawned into a black emptiness.

Reminding herself that to her night did not in any way resemble this black emptiness helped.

Rupert stood with his back to me fire- place as if there really were a flame or two within its black emptiness.

Beyond it, Banks saw, there was nothing but black emptiness.

What he and the crew saw off the bow was a black emptiness.