Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Empty

Empty as a bird’s nest in December.
—Anonymous

Empty as a politician’s address to the people.
—Anonymous

Empty as a quill.
—Anonymous

Empty of expression as a squeezed sponge of water.
—Anonymous

Empty as Vanity Fair.
—Anonymous

Empty … like a shell dishabited.
—Thomas E. Brown

Empty of religion, as the white of an egg is of savor.
—John Bunyan

Empty as shade.
—C. C. Colton

Empty as a church on a week-day.
—Alphonse Daudet

Empty as a cobbler’s curse.
—Thomas Dermody

As empty of ideas as an opera.
—Henry Fielding

Empty as an idiot’s mind.
—George Cabot Lodge

Empty as space.
—Guy de Maupassant

Empty as air-pumps drain’d of air.
—William Shenstone

Empty as a skull.
—Alfred Tennyson

Empty as wind.
—Mrs.
—Trollope