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Everyone is going crazy upstairs over the halfempty demolitions bag Carlson was found with.
State of the Union Brad Thor 2004
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Everyone is going crazy upstairs over the halfempty demolitions bag Carlson was found with.
State of the Union Brad Thor 2004
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Everyone is going crazy upstairs over the halfempty demolitions bag Carlson was found with.
State of the Union Brad Thor 2004
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He took the remains of the brandy with him, clutching the halfempty bottle in one clawed hand and tossing out benedictions with the other.
The Seventh Scroll Smith, Wilbur 1995
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She found Benteen slumped over the table, the whiskey bottle more than halfempty.
This Calder Range Janet Dailey 1982
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She found Benteen slumped over the table, the whiskey bottle more than halfempty.
This Calder Range Janet Dailey 1982
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Plumtree's potted meat, an oval wicker basket bedded with fibre and containing one Jersey pear, a halfempty bottle of William Gilbey and
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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Back at Le Royale, Trullie doesn't know what to do with a lit butt, so I take it from her fingers and put it out in a halfempty glass.
New York Press 2009
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Back at Le Royale, Trullie doesn't know what to do with a lit butt, so I take it from her fingers and put it out in a halfempty glass.
New York Press 2009
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'In our opinion, Tesco's glass is half-full, not halfempty,' said Clive Black, of stockbroker Shore Capital.
This is Money | Home 2009
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