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Sentences starting with half

Half our navy would have anchored under the guns of these suddenly alienated fortresses, with the flag of the rebellion flying at their peaks. [6]
Half undressed, and with her hair in wild disorder, she flew to the old man's bedside, clasped him by the wrist, and roused him from his sleep. [12]
Half the time when Nick is needed he is not to be found; then it turns out that he has been gadding around with you two. [5]
Half the time, when it is packed as full as it can stick, you will see that New England weather sticking out beyond the edges and projecting around hundreds and hundreds of miles over the neighboring states. [5]
Half the city went crazy. [10]
Half the village watched the barter. [9]
Half the building was store, and half was dwelling house. [5]
Half an hour was spent over Joan's apparitions--their dress, hair, general appearance, and so on--in the hope of fishing something of a damaging sort out of the replies; but with no result. [5]
Half the price was paid by Macnamara to the sheikh before they left the shade of the palm-trees, and, striking through the hills, emerged again into the desert farther north. [11]
Half the street was in shadow, the other half brightly lit by the sun. [2]

Sentences ending with half

F-o-o-l-s,--those five letters will give you the first and largest half. [6]
The one opinion was held by half of the town, the other one was maintained by the other half. [5]
If you stay two or three months or longer, you cut it down half, or even more than half. [5]
The Secretary had to pay that dollar and a half. [5]
What do you think--would it not be right to pour out half a cup of wine to the gods, and allow ourselves the other half? [10]
I saw heiresses there worth, in their own right--worth, well, I suppose I might venture to say, as much as nine dollars and a half. [5]
Those are all the words I think of now, but they are not enough; no, they are too few and colorless and meager to tell it all, or tell the half. [5]
The Auditor said the testimony showed that at least half the destruction was done by the Indians "before the troops started in pursuit," and of course the government was not responsible for that half. [5]
One slides by the other, half a length, a length, a length and a half. [6]
The pilot left the men with the boat and walked back to us, a mile and a half. [5]

Short sentences using half

We're half way to Sterling. [13]
This isn't half the list. [5]
Half madly Jim reached out. [11]
Half an hour passed. [9]
It half frightened me. [4]
You half, and me half. [11]
Half consciously Leicester listened. [11]
He half raised himself. [11]
Half the men have dispersed. [2]
The building was half full. [9]

Sentences containing half two or more times

This should bring you a barony,--Sir John," my lord added, half graciously, half satirically; for the honest truth of this man's nature vexed him. [11]
I was conscious, yet for a time I had no thought: I was like something half animal, half vegetable, which feeds, yet has no mouth, nor sees, nor hears, nor has sense, but only lives. [11]
There was a wicked look in his face, from which the landlord shrank back- shrank so far that he carried himself among the others, and stood there, half frightened, half dumfounded. [11]
Perhaps half those who are convicted of crimes are as capable of reformation as half those transgressors who are not convicted, or who keep inside the statutory law. [4]
And yet there were some reviews of a different sort, half a dozen in all, and half of them from Western journals, which took the book seriously, saw its pathos, its artistic merit, its failure of construction through inexperience. [4]
The day they were living in stretched behind them half way round the globe, across the Pacific Ocean and America and Europe; the day I was living in stretched in front of me around the other half to meet it. [5]
The two nearest were half a mile from each other, and half that distance from my residence. [3]
Nay, or ever we had ceased he had taken his foot from the stag's neck, and at length we walked with him back to the forest lodge, half amused, yet half grieved, with the mocking words he tormented us with. [10]
Evening after evening was this other fire lighted and then put out at once; and a great longing came to him to leave this guarding of the fire, and go to her--"For half a day," he said--"just for half a day! [11]
The Tall Master was now playing a wonderful thing, half dance, half carnival; but with that Call still beating through it. [11]

More example sentences with the word half in them

A sample: a youth staked out a claim and tried to sell half for L5; no takers; he stuck to it fourteen days, starving, then struck it rich and sold out for L10,000. [5]
I always liked your writings, but you never did anything half so good as this last piece," and then to have to tell the blunderer that this last piece is n't yours, but t' other man's. [6]
The idea of your going and intruding on a party of strangers, that way, and talking for half an hour; why I never heard of a man in his right mind doing such a thing before. [5]
He was a young man and a distinguished warrior under that terrific fighter, Kamehameha I., more than half a century ago. [5]
Now and then you will have a young man on your benches like the late Waldo Burnett,--not very often, if you lecture half a century. [3]
Among the sediment you will find half a dozen yellow particles no larger than pin-heads. [5]
I have followed you through half the civilized countries of the globe--none of them are good enough. [9]
Take any road you please, you may depend upon it you will not stay in it half a mile. [5]
I swear to you on my honor that Napoleon was in such a fix as never before and might have lost half his army but could not have taken Smolensk. [2]
I will tell you my wicked, but half involuntary experiment on the wild heart under the faded bombazine. [6]
I don't believe you men know, half the time, whether a lady wears a nine-penny collar or a thread-lace cape worth a thousand dollars. [6]
Yassir, I gives you jes one chance mo', and dat's _now_, en it las' on'y half a second--you hear? [5]
My Lord Leicester, you have lived in the circle of her good pleasure, near to her noble Majesty, as you say, for half a lifetime. [11]
I don't believe you half know what happened, Cynthia. [9]
I hope, however, you can spare me half an hour on one of those days, as I like to get as much of this bracing air as I can. [6]
Then, just as you begin to half hope he is going to discover the cause of it and launch hot bolts of wrath at the guilty manufacturers of it, you have to turn away disappointed. [5]
I will meet you at the old mill in half an hour. [11]
And even now you are not satisfied when I come back to tell you that I have money enough to snap my fingers at half these people you know. [9]
I do believe you are more than half gone. [4]
Mrs. Clemens wrote you a letter, and handed it to me half an hour ago, while I was folding mine to Mr. Howells. [5]
I left New York under a sort of half promise to furnish to the Harper magazines 30,000 words this year. [5]
And yet, and yet," he added, half sadly, "how futile has been all our fighting, so far as human eye can see. [11]
In all these years, I've been closer to him than any one else, and I don't know him today half as well as you do. [9]
Thus in a year and a half, the Virginia office only shipped $5,330,000 in bullion. [5]
I was a year and a half in London and Sweden, in the hands of that grand old man, Mr. Kildren. [5]
A half a year ago I used to always be the last one; but I've been promoted. [5]
Them varmints is wuss'n redskins,--they've robbed me already of half my claims. [9]
I think I wrote until 2 or half past. [5]
She did n't write half so well as she used to write herself. [6]
Come, vagrant, outcast, wretch forlorn In leather jerkin stained and torn, Whose talk has filled my idle hour And made me half forget the shower, I'll do at least as much for you, Your coat I'll patch, your gilt renew, Read you,--perhaps,--some other time. [6]
This caused fresh wrath, and he furiously crushed the topmost sheet, already half covered with writing, and hurled it on the floor. [10]
Often Mr. Carvel would run across one which seemed to bring some incident to his mind; for he would drop it absently on his desk, his hand seeking his chin, and remain for half an hour lost in thought. [9]
Oh, if misfortune would draw her again as near to him as during the early months of their married life and directly before it, he could rise from his depression with fresh vigour and transform the battle, now half lost, into victory. [10]
She said she would be carried before the gate in the morning, and in half an hour Paris would be ours without any question. [5]
Many a person would be afraid to stay there, even half an hour, when the mountain quakes, the ashes fall in showers, and the glowing lava pours out in a stream. [10]
It was not worth more than a dollar, or possibly a dollar and half, before the captive students began their work on it. [5]
The United American Workers (who were half foreigners by birth) passed resolutions denouncing Henderson for employing foreign pauper labor, and organized more than one strike while the house was building. [4]
The piece of work was only half unrolled, but Orion at once saw the spot whence its crowning glory was now missing--the large emerald which, as he alone could know, was on its way to Constantinople. [10]
It was tedious work struggling up to a position of influence with bloodless hands; but when a man came with the blood of half a dozen men on his soul, his worth was recognized at once and his acquaintance sought. [5]
She wore heavy woollen rider's stockings, half length, and these were pulled up over the ends of her short trousers. [13]
You are a wonderful creature, the most wonderful in the world--you and your other half together --Miss Sullivan, I mean, for it took the pair of you to make a complete and perfect whole. [5]
Where is the wonder the engineer Of the train she saved, in half a year Had wooed her and won her? [11]
The stupid old woman gives him every thing he asks for, and she let him have half of the currant cake, which we sent her to fetch before we went out. [10]
Before we reached Wolfville we came in sight of this basin and some of the estuaries and streams that run into it; that is, when the tide goes out; but they are only muddy ditches half the time. [4]
We dropped anchor within half a mile of the village. [5]
Nor had she withheld her approval; she had heartily agreed with his views; and when, half an hour before midnight, he had gone with her to visit his patients, rapturous hopes had sprung once more in his breast. [10]
Yet, half dead with thirst, barely escaped from drowning, threatened on all sides by fierce hatred, he stood firm, and remained victor also in the open field, after the young King had placed himself at the head of the Egyptians and collected an army. [10]
She lay trembling with the horror of the dream-spell upon her, still more than half convinced that the siren was Ditmar's voice, his true expression. [9]
Here at noon, with parade of infantry, comes a military band to play for half an hour; and there are always plenty of idlers to listen to them. [4]
While he was with her she made him forget that the Hawkins' house was nothing but a wooden tenement, with four small square rooms on the ground floor and a half story; it might have been a palace for aught he knew. [5]
And any one with half an eye could see that she was in love with the Celebrity; even the Fraction had remarked it. [9]
Rumours of war with France had set his blood dancing a little, but for him most things were robbed of half their pleasure because they did not come at once. [11]
I'll replace them with dead ones at half the money. [5]
Do your best with Carnegie, and don't wait to consider any of my intermediate suggestions or talks about our raising half of the $200,000 ourselves. [5]
In twenty-one years, with all my time at my free disposal I have written and completed only eleven books, whereas with half the labor that a journalist does I could have written sixty in that time. [5]
It is crowned with a hemispherical dome, which, I may remark, half realizes the idea of my egg-shell studio. [6]
I even have wished that I, half peasant, had been--" "If only you had been all peasant, this war, this misery of mine, had never been," she interrupted. [11]
Sometimes I half wish I had not begun. [5]
Always on the wing, as we were, and merely pausing a moment to catch fitful glimpses of the wonders of half a world, we could not hope to receive or retain vivid impressions of all it was our fortune to see. [5]
All the study windows have Venetian blinds; they long ago went out of fashion in America but they have not been replaced with anything half as good yet. [5]
Between Salisbury and Wilton, three miles and a half distant, is the little village of Bemerton, where "holy George Herbert" lived and died, and where he lies buried. [6]
I am half willing to believe that the celebrated dogs of Constantinople have been misrepresented--slandered. [5]
Two of them will sometimes wait nearly half a day while a comrade goes for a tool. [4]
But the reader will perceive by the above extract, that in Humboldt from one fourth to nearly half the mass was silver! [5]
The Semi-Homoeopathic practitioner will gradually withdraw from the rotten half of his business and try to make the public forget his connection with it. [3]
Petrus received his wife with no less gravity than was usual with him, but there was an arch sparkle in his half closed eyes as he asked: "You scarcely know what is going on, I suppose? [10]
I want a whole man for my doctor, not a half one. [3]
But other men, who were not half so good as Uncle Tom, got rich. [9]
The wandering prospectors who made it scraped up two pounds and a half of gold the first day-worth $600. [5]
Because a man who is a friend must still be half a lover, and a woman cannot bear to give up even a quarter of one. [10]
If the Kanakas who have been caring for him (inveterate riders they are) have not ridden him half to death every day themselves, you can depend upon it they have been doing the same thing by proxy, by clandestinely hiring him out. [5]
With a sigh which was half bitter and mocking laughter, he seized the pouncebox, dried his letter to Guida, and put it in his pocket. [11]
The room in which he was sitting was spacious and cool; the lower part of the walls was lined with earthenware tiles, the upper half plastered and painted. [10]
Baskets of flowers which had half unpeopled greenhouses, large bouquets of roses, fragrant bunches of pinks, and many beautiful blossoms I am not botanist enough to name had been coming in upon me all day long. [6]
It was this which filled her eyes with tears, and sincere sorrow trembled in her voice as she replied: "Thou hast required the better half of my life at my hand; but thou hast but to command, and I to obey. [10]
I insist that whether I shall be a whole man or only the half of one, in comparison with others is a question in which I am somewhat concerned, and one which no other man can have a sacred right of deciding for me. [7]
Jean's coffin stands where her mother and I stood, forty years ago, and were married; and where Susy's coffin stood thirteen years ago; where her mother's stood five years and a half ago; and where mine will stand after a little time. [5]
At the moment when these ambitious plans had reached the highest point of imagination, the upper half of the door beside him opened suddenly, and he heard men's voices. [11]
To Mr. Brinsmade's, when the day's duty was done, the young Union officers used to ride, and often there would be half a dozen of them to tea. [9]
But at last, when over half a mile of rope had slidden away, it stopped gliding and stood absolutely still--one minute--two minutes--three--while we held our breath and watched. [5]
And if and when Kunz should wed, then should he pay only half the profits to his brother instead of two-thirds. [10]
I don't know what the Queen would think of this way of spending Sunday; but if Albert Edward never does anything worse, he does n't need half the praying for that he gets every Sunday in all the English churches and chapels. [4]
Only half conscious what she was doing, she left the boat; but her slender foot had scarcely touched the land when a tall figure emerged from the thicket near the shore and approached her through the darkness. [10]
You may believe what he says, or not, just as you choose: "So interested was his Royal Highness in the proceedings that he stayed in the ring three and a half hours witnessing these trotting matches. [9]
All the flags were sent aloft except half a dozen that were needed to decorate portions of the ship below, and in a short time the vessel assumed a holiday appearance. [5]
The cattlemen's stations were scattered over that profound wilderness miles and miles apart--at each station half a dozen persons. [5]
Its precipitous sides were powdered over with snow, and the upper half hidden in thick clouds which now and then dissolved to cobweb films and gave brief glimpses of the imposing tower as through a veil. [5]
I thought you were only in love with the Ilium coal mine, which you and father talk about half the time. [5]
But behold, they were not wild enough--they were not fanciful enough--they have not told half the story. [5]
Why, when we were in New York here on our wedding journey the place didn't seem half so dirty as it does now, and none of these dismal things happened. [8]
At the Swannanoa were half a dozen bridal couples, readily recognizable by the perfect air they had of having been married a long time. [4]
All their faces were as serene as if all this were happening at home awaiting peaceful encampment, and not within sight of the enemy before an action in which at least half of them would be left on the field. [2]
The doctor, however, went into the laboratory with wavering steps, and in the next half hour prepared more of the elixir into which he mixed some of his own blood. [10]
But as I went in to luncheon, I passed a gentleman standing in custody of a plate half covered with sovereigns. [6]
Having myself a well-marked barytone voice of more than half an octave in compass, I sometimes add my vocal powers to her execution of "Thou, thou reign'st in this bosom. [6]
During the ensuing weeks, Senora Petra prepared Coello many bad days and still worse nights; but the painter persisted in his resolution to give Isabella to Ulrich, if in a year and a half he returned from Italy a skilful artist. [10]
Well, during two weeks and a half we watched by the crib, and in our deep solicitude we were unconscious of any world outside of that sick-room. [5]
In this hot weather walking would be quite out of the question, either for you or for her; and I know she would persist in doing it if left to herself, and arrive half killed. [14]
But of course we were dead tired, and slept like policemen; so when we awoke in the morning and ran to the window it was already too late, because it was half past eleven. [5]
In the morning we rode a mile and a half through the woods and followed up a small stream to see the celebrated pools, one of which the Judge said was two hundred feet deep, and another bottomless. [4]

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