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  • She left him with us, twenty half-naked, half-sleeping men.

    The Empty Family Colm Tóibín 2011

  • She left him with us, twenty half-naked, half-sleeping men.

    The Empty Family Colm Tóibín 2011

  • Stirring the drink, I observe the other café patrons: a group of women clustered by the periphery, babies on their laps, miniature dogs half-sleeping at their feet; an elderly couple sharing a croissant, not speaking.

    A Hidden Affair Pam Jenoff 2010

  • Stirring the drink, I observe the other café patrons: a group of women clustered by the periphery, babies on their laps, miniature dogs half-sleeping at their feet; an elderly couple sharing a croissant, not speaking.

    A Hidden Affair Pam Jenoff 2010

  • G quickly carried our half-sleeping wee boy to the bathroom and helped him onto the toilet.

    Big Boy at Night ewe are here 2008

  • One day, gazing into the fireplace as he thought about the problem, he drifted off and had a half-sleeping daydream in which he imagined he saw a snake eating its own tail.

    The Answer John Assaraf 2008

  • One day, gazing into the fireplace as he thought about the problem, he drifted off and had a half-sleeping daydream in which he imagined he saw a snake eating its own tail.

    The Answer John Assaraf 2008

  • He probably meant what he said at the time but, according to the Washington Post, by 2007 Mr. Obama was staring into the opened eye of the still half-sleeping giant and thought it wiser to hit the snooze button.

    Ashley Rindsberg: Election Amnesia: Cuba on My Mind 2008

  • So there we were, in a town or village between Osaka and Kyoto, with four drunk and half-sleeping passengers on the train, and a probably fed-up conductor trying to throw them off the train so he could go home.

    2008-03-18: Osaka, penguins and the last train. magnio 2008

  • You know the discomfort caused at night by the half-sleeping sense that a door or window has been left unfastened, or in the day by the remembrance of unanswered letters.

    Life's Little Ironies 2006

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