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  • Her spirit just remained with her, she was so defiant that eyewitnesses say that though she was beaten to pulp, she was half-dead, she was almost kicked to death.

    Author Inspires Memorial for British Spy Noor Inayat Khan 2011

  • Carl Tibbetts will make his feature directing debut with the film, which follows Newton and Isaacs as a couple who are “seeking to rebuild their relationship by taking time out on a remote island but their peace is shattered when they find a man in military uniform (Tennant) half-dead on their doorstep who tells them there is a lethal virus killing millions on the mainland.”

    Casting Notes: Stephen Merchant and J.B. Smoove in Hall Pass; Thandie Newton, Jason Isaacs and David Tennant in Retreat; Mario Van Peebles Directs 50 Cent | /Film 2010

  • She went out in calf-length dresses and big black rubber boots, pulling stalks of blue chickweeds and lamb's-quarters, hacking at a half-dead hedge of privet shrubs.

    Still Life, With Girl Brittany Newmark 2011

  • Soon, the lamb is joined by its staff-wielding shepherd owner (Harvey Kietel), a Biblical figure in cotton robes who nonetheless wanders with his half-dead pet into modern day East Los Angeles for a segment called 'Spring Cleaning,' in which the shepherd's staff doubles as a Samurai sword and decapitates a vicious Drug Lord (Danny Trejo) and his henchmen.

    James Napoli: Movie Review: Quentin Tarantino's Haunting The Coming of Spring James Napoli 2011

  • There was a lack of detail in many areas, such as, if the expedition is well into Amazonia, and are totally spent and half-dead from starvation and disease, how did they get out in order that they undertake the next expedition?

    Reader reviews of The Lost City of Z by David Grann. 2009

  • She went out in calf-length dresses and big black rubber boots, pulling stalks of blue chickweeds and lamb's-quarters, hacking at a half-dead hedge of privet shrubs.

    Still Life, With Girl Brittany Newmark 2011

  • The first time I ever saw my big yellow dog was on a farm I had purchased in Hope, N.J. He was half-dead from starvation, with fur so matted and dirty that I actually mistook him for a real coyote.

    Lonette McKee: My Coyote Lonette McKee 2011

  • We'll never find out, because half-dead and handcuffed Jack delivers death to each of themby scalpel.

    Archive 2009-05-17 Tyler 2009

  • The first time I ever saw my big yellow dog was on a farm I had purchased in Hope, N.J. He was half-dead from starvation, with fur so matted and dirty that I actually mistook him for a real coyote.

    Lonette McKee: My Coyote Lonette McKee 2011

  • Soon, the lamb is joined by its staff-wielding shepherd owner (Harvey Kietel), a Biblical figure in cotton robes who nonetheless wanders with his half-dead pet into modern day East Los Angeles for a segment called 'Spring Cleaning,' in which the shepherd's staff doubles as a Samurai sword and decapitates a vicious Drug Lord (Danny Trejo) and his henchmen.

    James Napoli: Movie Review: Quentin Tarantino's Haunting The Coming of Spring James Napoli 2011

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