Without you life is an empty gourd, a well which is stopped with sand.

At the last, there were no more words, only an empty gourd and a well which was filled with sand.

Yattmur whipped the empty gourd forward, over the child.

Rega handed back the empty gourd with a wan smile.

His eyes felt gritty; his stomach sat like an empty gourd in its abdominal basket.

Also, Hathor had thought to capture some of the embers from the magic fire, inside an empty gourd.

He tossed the empty gourds back to the bottom and laid a course for the harbor.

None of them seemed to give an empty gourd for the taboos, and some of them said as much in plain language.

She set down the empty gourd and looked about her.

A dry empty gourd, the bottom part is cut off and joined with bigger end of the bamboo tubes.