And like a half-empty sack he sagged limply down onto the floor.

On my way, I tripped over something that fell over and scattered across the floor: a half-empty sack of aquarium charcoal.

To the side of the sink, under the draining-board, were half-empty sacks and bags which contained cereals, wood shavings and what looked like the sort of seeds you feed to birds rather than the ones you roll with tobacco.

She was going to give Meron every dead fire lizard egg she could find for sending her a half-empty sack.

She dropped her iron on the shirtwaist, clutched at the board, fumbled it, caved in at the knees and hips, and like a half-empty sack collapsed on the floor, her long shriek rising in the pent room to the acrid smell of scorching cloth.

The only one they did find was a half-empty sack of ssersa seed, which proved that the rustlers must have been responsible for the proliferation of that weed on previously cleared pasturelands.

But to his horror he heard them sweeping and dusting, throwing out half-empty sacks, pasting new labels on cans, putting dishes and pots and pans in drawers that had stood empty for years.

Few looked to have strength for it Their clothes hung on them like half-empty sacks; several leaned on a comrade's shoulder to keep their feet.