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  • My hand shook shamefully as I held it, and then I lifted it, letting the crucifix dangle, and I hurled it at her, so that it struck her, just above her small hands, right on the white swell of her half-bared breasts.

    Vittorio, The Vampire Rice, Anne, 1941- 1999

  • She turned her back and raised her half-bared arms to the shelves again.

    The Apples of Hesperides, Kansas 1996

  • His pale-blue gaze traveled over her throat and half-bared bosom; his mouth widened a little, but what was in his eyes could never have been called a smile.

    The Silent Tower Hambly, Barbara 1986

  • Strength, with a terrifying body of blue rays of light, a chortling mouth and fangs half-bared, roaring out ferocious cries, with twelve eyes, twenty-six arms, four faces and two legs, originating from discriminating awareness and method.

    Abbreviated Kalachakra Mind Mandala Sadhana sDe-khri 'Jam-dbyangs thub-bstan nyi-ma 1985

  • Strength, with a terrifying body of blue rays of light, a chortling mouth and fangs half-bared, roaring out ferocious cries, with twelve eyes, twenty-six arms, four faces and two legs, originating from discriminating awareness and method.

    Abbreviated Kalachakra Mind Mandala Sadhana sDe-khri 'Jam-dbyangs thub-bstan nyi-ma 1985

  • She danced, slowly at first, then gaining in tempo until musky sweat glistened on her now half-bared breasts.

    The Eternal Mercenary Sadler, Barry 1980

  • Her hand scooped up the knife, and she came charging toward him, her mouth a taut slit across half-bared teeth.

    Police Your Planet Lester Del Rey 1954

  • It is the tiger way to tease, long moments, with half-bared talons; to let the prey crawl away a few feet for the rapture of leaping at it again; to fondle with an exquisite cruelty for moments that seem endless to its prey.

    O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 Various

  • A man, in half-bared arms dotted about the wrists with remnants of what they call gurry-sores, stood at the water's edge, waiting to lend a hand.

    Sweetapple Cove George van Schaick

  • Less than twenty yards away, and not far from the bluff, a vigorous rivulet started from beneath the half-bared roots of a monster beech, and fell over an outcropping boulder into a pool so clear that sand on its bottom, worked mysteriously into a pattern by the action of the water, lay revealed.

    Hiram the Young Farmer Burbank L. Todd

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