I had come to think but your empty husk lay there and that.

Yet I get up here and I'm an empty husk.

The empty husk of Mary crumpled to the floor like a paper sack.

She wanted to drain the life right out of him, then discard the empty husk.

A woman sat there still, but Charlene knew that what faced her at the end of the table was nothing more than an empty husk.

Inside, it was no more than a charred and empty husk.

The other two shells, the empty husks, squatted a few feet away.

Not really Ana, but the empty husk of what she had once been.

"Find her," he told them, his voice an empty husk now.

And the empty husk is the only witness to the fact.