The students, much subdued, lay again in their places, and when there was any talking it was of an extremely local nature, referring principally to the floor As being unsuitable for beds and also referring from time to time to a real or an alleged selfishness on the part of some one of the recumbent men. Soon there was only the sound of heavy breathing.英文原著 · 《Active Service》
Coleman's voice said; "Come in." The professor opened the door. The correspondent, without a coat, was seated at a paper-littered table. Near his elbow, upon another table, was a tray from which he had evidently dined and also a brandy bottle with several recumbent bottles of soda. Although he had so lately arrived at the hotel he had contrived to diffuse his traps over the room in an organised disarray which represented a long and careless occupation if it did not represent t'le scene of a scuffle. His pipe was in his mouth.英文原著 · 《Active Service》
At noon or a little after Cash returned to the cabin, cast a sour look of contempt at the recumbent Bud, and built a fire in the old cookstove. He got his dinner, ate it, and washed his dishes with never a word to Bud, who had wakened and lay with his eyes half open, sluggishly miserable and staring dully at the rough spruce logs of the wall.英文原著 · 《Cabin Fever》
Weldon cast a mocking glance over his shoulder at the recumbent, open-mouthed form.英文原著 · 《On The Firing Line》
"Behind the house was a garden--a garden of two hundred and fifty French feet in length. "And as one hundred feet of France equal one hundred and six feet of England, this garden, my friends, equalled exactly two hundred and sixty-five feet of British measure. "In the centre of the garden was a fountain and a statue--or, to speak more correctly, two statues. One was recumbent,--a man. Over him, sabre in hand, stood a woman. "The man was Olofernes. The woman was Judith. From the head, from the trunk, the water gushed.英文原著 · 《Roundabout Papers》
So beautiful, and those two still alabaster figures--recumbent. But until now I could never see my way to any such service. Now I do. I am all afire to do it. Help me! Tell me! Let me stand behind you and make your mission possible. I feel I have come to the most wonderful phase in my life.英文原著 · 《Soul of a Bishop》