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More than half-delirious, she stared as the corridor unfolded before her, growing longer and longer like a corridor in a nightmare.
City of Glass Cassandra Clare 2009
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More than half-delirious, she stared as the corridor unfolded before her, growing longer and longer like a corridor in a nightmare.
Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series Cassandra Clare 2009
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Frequently, when Abrahams was sitting up at night to write reports home, he himself was half-delirious with fever.
The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008
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Frequently, when Abrahams was sitting up at night to write reports home, he himself was half-delirious with fever.
The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008
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The impressions of nature received during that sick period are blurred, or else so coloured and exaggerated by perpetual torturing anxiety, mixed with half-delirious night-fancies, that I can only think of that country as an earthly inferno, where I fought against every imaginable obstacle, alternately sweating and freezing, toiling as no man ever toiled before.
Green Mansions 2004
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She had declared to him over and over again that she felt sure that she should die, and, half-delirious with weariness and suffering, had begged him to leave her at the last hut.
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So you don't need to worry that he's wandering about half-delirious somewhere.
The Serpent's Shadow Lackey, Mercedes 2001
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Amberdrake would not have recognized it as Skandranon, except for the black feathers and the incredible vocabulary of half-delirious curse words.
The Black Gryphon Lackey, Mercedes 1994
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I couldn't be sure about this; I had a suspicion it was the one about oxen and other livestock, which seemed unlikely, but with a man who's half-delirious you can never tell.
Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971
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I couldn't be sure about this; I had a suspicion it was the one about oxen and other livestock, which seemed unlikely, but with a man who's half-delirious you can never tell.
Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971
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