It was depressing to see the empty bookshelves placed as a memorial across the street from Humboldt University, site of the book burning.

She made a grab for him, but the chimpanzee bounded to the top of an empty bookshelf.

Koko followed her but went directly to a tall secretary desk that had empty bookshelves in the upper half.

I set my mug on an empty bookshelf, folded together a fresh banker's box, and began to clear Tom's desk.

Reporters found many empty bookshelves and a four-member teaching staff of whom only one person had teaching credentials.

We put all the bottles on an empty bookshelf and sometimes there were as many as twenty or thirty.

For now, the immigrant library, housed in the agency's office, is three mostly empty white bookshelves leaning against one wall.

Researchers said that children coming from a "bookish home" remained in education for around three years longer than young people born into families with empty bookshelves.

An orange tabby jumped down from a nearly empty bookshelf.

There were tables near the door, long tables of an ancient solidity, and empty bookshelves.