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  • Two half-heart metal frames, attached to two bases which slide on and secure under the mattress above the box spring.

    Bonkum Cliff Pickover 2006

  • The Christmas before he'd given me a half-heart, cut down the center with a jagged line, hanging on a heavy gold chain.

    Black and Blue Quindlen, Anna 1998

  • I'd left the half-heart in my jewelry box, below the costume things.

    Black and Blue Quindlen, Anna 1998

  • Murchison while he was still examining the problems of the United States with the half-heart of the alien, and offered him a partnership.

    The Imperialist Sara Jeannette Duncan

  • She hadn't said very much, and had laughed with only a half-heart at things that had seemed to me excruciatingly funny.

    The Spread Eagle and Other Stories Gouverneur Morris 1914

  • [136] Gerson, who opposed the doctrine of Petit with but half-heart, was also himself involved in the general laxity of the moral consciousness; he also countenanced probabilism.

    Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics. 1819-1870 1873

  • Oh, Francis! though I could not have wished you to make the sacrifices you have made for my poor sake, yet, now that it is done, it is not a half-heart I give you.

    Mr. Hogarth's Will Catherine Helen Spence 1867

  • Despite only undergoing very half-heart­ed and lax checks compared to cycling, there have been three cases of doping at the Women's Soccer World Cup, but unfortunat MyNameIsKarsten: If you had any idea how incredibly meticulous and thorough BosIb5zBifA2GUzCInVPh7IZtvwq%2BoMlyuGR1sTzItNqMeUQdIiluJiDnj%2Fk7%2BXS4Hmui1OOTKdyRitmQJx2%2FJUMRi6nv%2F%2Fe

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • Their half-heart ­ed applause for the much touted toughness of his tone in recent weeks betrays the fact: it looks like an act.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Thomas de Zengotita 2011

  • Not all the tales have that air of Washington worldliness; there are also those half-heart pendants on necklaces, given by ex-boyfriends who were never so great.

    The Seattle Times 2008

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