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The several quite fairly large men I marked were vacant-faced.
CHAPTER V 2010
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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
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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
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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
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Why shadow me through this crowd of vacant-faced marks in their showday clothes?
Catspaw Vinge, Joan D. 1988
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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
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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
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The vacant-faced groom grinned a broad and foolish grin.
A Boy's Ride Gulielma Zollinger
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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
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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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