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Unconsciously he reverted to the old ways; a new swagger became evident in his bearing, in the way he sat his horse; halfforgotten oaths rose naturally to his lips, and as he rode he hummed old songs that he had roared in chorus with his reckless companions in many a tavern and on many a dusty road or bloody field.
The Hour Of The Dragon Howard, Robert E. 1977
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Ancient hatreds are nurtured like precious flowers in a garden and diatribes about halfforgotten and even historical contentions have all the freshness of a burning topicality.
An Autobiography Peter, Ustinov 1977
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The nocturnal sounds of the mountains were new to him, yet they fell upon his ears like the soft voice of a halfforgotten love.
The Return of Tarzan 1913
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