Hen sat with his big-jointed hands hanging loosely over his knees and listened, stared at Bud and grinned vacuously when one song was done, gulped his Adam's apple and listened again as raptly to the next one. The others forgot all about having fun watching Hen, and named old favorites and new ones, heard them sung inimitably and called for more. At midnight Bud blew on his blistered fingertips and shook the guitar gently, bottom-side up.英文原著 · 《Cow-Country》
30, 1903 775,965 Dry Separator. April 27, 1903 754,756 Process of Treating Ores from Magnetic Gangue . May 25, 1903 775,600 Rotary Cement Kilns. .July 20, 1903 767,216 Apparatus for Vacuously Depositing Metals . July 30 1903 796,629 Lamp Guard . July 30 1903 772,648 Vehicle Wheel. 25, 1903 850,912 Making Articles by Electro-Plating . .Oct 3, 1903 857,041 Can or Receptacle for Storage Batteries.Oct 3, 1903 766,815 Primary Battery.英文原著 · 《Edison, His Life and Inventions》
How do you suppose it all started, anyhow, dear?" she asked, turning to her husband for help in the riddle. "I'd be willing to bet a year's pay it 'all started' about six feet from shore in this lake," responded the Master, "and about a fortnight ago."
But he spoke it in the depths of his own guiltily exultant heart. Outwardly, he merely grinned; and said with vacuous conviction:
"Laddie, you're a grand dog. And,--if you didn't win that cup from Lochaber King in one way, you certainly won it in another!"英文原著 · 《Further Adventures of Lad》
It was thus that poor little Alisa Bennett assumed maternal responsibilities at the age of ten, and gained her sobriquet of 'Marm Lisa.' She grew more human, more tractable, under Mr. Grubb's fostering care; but that blessed martyr had now been dead two years, and she began to wear her former vacuous look, and to slip back into the past that was still more dreadful than the present.英文原著 · 《Marm Lisa》
Unconscious and unpassionate and still, Cloud-like we lean and stare as bright leaves stare, And gradually along the stranger hill Our unwalled loves thin out on vacuous air,英文原著 · 《Poems of Rupert Brooke》
And then the stillness was suddenly cut by a scream of vacuous laughter, probably that of an exuberant Irish maid-servant, to whom silences are made to break, carrying on, most likely, a rough flirtation with a chauffeur.英文原著 · 《Who Cares》