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  • Unwanted, lonely and hopelessly lost Carol presents as the saddest of children as she struggles to come to terms with half-known truths and unspoken disgrace.

    Little Monsters 2008

  • Unwanted, lonely and hopelessly lost Carol presents as the saddest of children as she struggles to come to terms with half-known truths and unspoken disgrace.

    47 entries from February 2008 2008

  • Unwanted, lonely and hopelessly lost Carol presents as the saddest of children as she struggles to come to terms with half-known truths and unspoken disgrace.

    Little Monsters 2008

  • I saw plainly that I knew the thing that lay upward upon the Rock; for the shape had been something strange and half-known to me even before that moment, as that I had a vague knowledge concerning it; but yet with no surety.

    The Night Land 2007

  • You've created a series of guesses about what the word might mean in context if it were an unknown word in a half-known language, Etruscan perhaps, but I don't think you're dealing with the language as we have it.

    languagehat.com: THE PERILS OF A FANCY VOCABULARY. 2005

  • Jaded with the monotony of the business, and with the repeated effort of greeting half-known people, he felt barren and rather irritable.

    The Prussian Officer and Other Stories 2003

  • A thousand forgotten — or only half-known — incidents, fragments of conversations or theories long ago guessed at and long forgotten, crowded on his mind.

    The Lair of the White Worm 2003

  • Her half-known fears seemed very foolish under the warm, demanding pressure of his kiss.

    The Glory Game Janet Dailey 1985

  • Her half-known fears seemed very foolish under the warm, demanding pressure of his kiss.

    The Glory Game Janet Dailey 1985

  • Her half-known fears seemed very foolish under the warm, demanding pressure of his kiss.

    The Glory Game Janet Dailey 1985

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