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  • To be helpful, store attendants might use a small amount of newspaper or dusty, half-spent bubble wrap to try to protect your purchase.

    Handmade Mexican Art from 3 de Mayo, Morelos and getting it home in one piece 2008

  • To be helpful, store attendants might use a small amount of newspaper or dusty, half-spent bubble wrap to try to protect your purchase.

    Handmade Mexican Art from 3 de Mayo, Morelos and getting it home in one piece 2008

  •  A half-spent tube of wasabi paste nestled triumphantly against the shattered remains.

    The Egg Whisk 2010

  • She sat there, thinking of it till the night was half-spent, and when she crept up cold to bed, she had almost made up her mind that it would be best for her to do as her uncle wished.

    The Golden Lion of Granpere 2004

  • She let the half-spent pad of paper fall to her lap and studied him instead.

    Strategic Engagement Mann, Catherine 2003

  • On the pavement lay Ford Prefect and Arthur Dent gulping like half-spent fish.

    The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy Adams, Douglas 1996

  • A gap in a row of cup hooks, the dented rubber of a tossed Wellington boot, a carefully rerolled bandage, the whiff of Ponting's developing fluid in his tiny darkroom, a half-spent candle in a chipped candlestick-perhaps it was the whistling of the wind, but I could have sworn if I turned around I would find them tramping back, spent dogs at their heels.

    Terra Incognita Wheeler, Sarah 1996

  • As if he were uncaring, Rourke took the blue Detonics that had belonged to the KGB man and studied it, dumping the half-spent magazine, clearing the chamber.

    The Doomsayer AHERN, Jerry 1981

  • As if he were uncaring, Rourke took the blue Detonics that had belonged to the KGB man and studied it, dumping the half-spent magazine, clearing the chamber.

    The Doomsayer Ahern, Jerry 1981

  • On the pavement lay Ford Prefect and Arthur Dent gulping like half-spent fish.

    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1979

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