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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

  • Landry must have melted down a half-bar to make that ball.

    TWO FOR TEXAS James Lee Burke 1989

  • Landry must have melted down a half-bar to make that ball.

    TWO FOR TEXAS James Lee Burke 1989

  • Landry must have melted down a half-bar to make that ball.

    TWO FOR TEXAS James Lee Burke 1989

  • 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

  • In order to avoid the disagreeable effect of singing one half-bar

    Style in Singing W. E. Haslam

  • 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

  • Peebles film clip, a half-bar Hugh Masekela horn blast, an extemporaneous Redman ad-lib, a funky-but-forgotten Mantronix drum break.

    The Stones Throw News Feed 2010

  • 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

  • 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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