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  • On hearing that a local teenager returned from the mountain with her mind half-gone, one of the children worries: What were those two sayings?

    When Learning Is A Dangerous Thing Meghan Cox Gurdon 2011

  • When I was coming off the bridge with about a kilometer and half to go, I felt it was half-gone, but as I got across the bridge, my rim was hitting the road.

    The ‘two Robbies’ deliver big weekend in India for RadioShack 2011

  • Now she's half-gone, lost in a place that exists in her mind: a place where you can't go and she can't bear to leave.

    Portrait of a Sunday Afternoon Ann-Marie Martino 2011

  • On hearing that a local teenager returned from the mountain with her mind half-gone, one of the children worries: What were those two sayings?

    When Learning Is A Dangerous Thing Meghan Cox Gurdon 2011

  • When the bottle of wine was half-gone in shared sips, he began to draw her out with questions, and though she tried valiantly to tell the tale of how she had come to be alone in the world in a calm manner, her throat closed and her eyes filled with tears when she spoke of her father.

    Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

  • When the bottle of wine was half-gone in shared sips, he began to draw her out with questions, and though she tried valiantly to tell the tale of how she had come to be alone in the world in a calm manner, her throat closed and her eyes filled with tears when she spoke of her father.

    Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

  •  She doesn't want to be seen, half-gone, skin slack, nails thick and spooned.

    All that Remains Terri Moran 2010

  • When the bottle of wine was half-gone in shared sips, he began to draw her out with questions, and though she tried valiantly to tell the tale of how she had come to be alone in the world in a calm manner, her throat closed and her eyes filled with tears when she spoke of her father.

    Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

  • Her only roll was already half-gone, and she rationed it strictly now, counting the sheets.

    Scott Westerfeld: Uglies Quartet Scott Westerfeld 2010

  • Billy first saw a flute of half-gone champagne sat down on the opposite deck from which his eyes then quickly ran up a vibrantly colored summer dress dangling from arced shoulders and a pointy collar bone until they inevitably collapsed upon that angelic face he had come to know detail for detail throughout the course of the day.

    Grant Whitney Harvey: Moonshadows: Part 2 2009

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