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The inside of the building was roughly half-bar, half-restaurant with the middle line very blurry.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Call’s Review Forum 2009
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Landry must have melted down a half-bar to make that ball.
TWO FOR TEXAS James Lee Burke 1989
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Landry must have melted down a half-bar to make that ball.
TWO FOR TEXAS James Lee Burke 1989
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Landry must have melted down a half-bar to make that ball.
TWO FOR TEXAS James Lee Burke 1989
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But while the king personally was deeply steeped in Hellenic culture and a man of refined manners, many of the lords and dynasts of half-bar - barian Macedon were certainly anything but cultured gentlemen after the heart of an old Greek aristocrat like Theopompus.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas KURT VON FRITZ 1968
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In order to avoid the disagreeable effect of singing one half-bar
Style in Singing W. E. Haslam
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The halting fourth quaver in each half-bar imparts a nervous restless character which at the meeting of the lovers becomes
Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama George Ainslie Hight
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Peebles film clip, a half-bar Hugh Masekela horn blast, an extemporaneous Redman ad-lib, a funky-but-forgotten Mantronix drum break.
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Bacaro de Fiore - described as a half-taven, half-bar - specialises in just the wines of the Triveneto (that's the land immediately behind Venice covering the Alto-Adige, Trentino, Friuli-Venezia-Giulia and the Veneto itself).
thecookscottage 2010
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To this day, beat-digging nerds debate which bells ring more true: these or those from the half-bar "break" found on Average
NPR Topics: News 2010
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