The simple passage of a match would bring out the first scratches that he had made with his supposedly empty pen.

"As soon as she can move, I'm taking her to the empty pen at the end," she said, in a voice that brooked no argument.

He shook his fist at her, then went to help Obid and the guards prod the merchandise into a large empty pen.

But no smoke rose; nothing stirred save a crow that hopped in the empty pens and jeered at them.

Blunt pencils and empty pens become a thing of the past.

Had he thrown the empty pen away, I wondered, or kept it, a useless reminder of his vanished future?

There was an empty pen, a shed, a square of tobacco plants.

No one ever went into the empty pens, unless they happened to be storing something there.

Vetch reburied the egg in the corner of the empty pen least visible from the entrance.

He stacked the boxes in the empty secretarial pen.