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  • The several quite fairly large men I marked were vacant-faced.

    CHAPTER V 2010

  • The man is a stout, bald, captain-of-industry type, and the woman is a voluptuous, vacant-faced, and vastly younger blonde.

    Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2007

  • COAs are ashamed of the way their alcoholic parents look: disheveled, possibly dirty, vacant-faced, unsteady in their walk and hand movements.

    Alcohol and The Addictive Brain Kenneth Blum 1991

  • COAs are ashamed of the way their alcoholic parents look: disheveled, possibly dirty, vacant-faced, unsteady in their walk and hand movements.

    Alcohol and The Addictive Brain Kenneth Blum 1991

  • Why shadow me through this crowd of vacant-faced marks in their showday clothes?

    Catspaw Vinge, Joan D. 1988

  • The first time it was a waiter who took their orders for cocktails, the second time it was a fashionable vacant-faced young man.

    Partners In Crime Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 1984

  • So the weary four entered the town of Doncaster and drew rein before the Green Dragon Inn. And one of the grooms who took the horses was the same vacant-faced, foolish fellow who had received the coin from Walter

    A Boy's Ride Gulielma Zollinger

  • The vacant-faced groom grinned a broad and foolish grin.

    A Boy's Ride Gulielma Zollinger

  • And that same morning it had occurred to the vacant-faced groom that he must speak now or never if he expected any reward for his speech.

    A Boy's Ride Gulielma Zollinger

  • Hours later, Big Lena, entering from the kitchen, regarded her mistress with a long vacant-faced stare, and returned again to the kitchen.

    The Gun-Brand 1921

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