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  • In the pediment of the temple a column surmounted by a halfmoon, which is the arms of the Colonna family.

    Letters and Journals 01 Morse, Samuel F B 1914

  • In the pediment of the temple a column surmounted by a halfmoon, which is the arms of the Colonna family.

    Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume I. 1831

  • You can even swim with dolphins, as they use sonar to communicate with the fetus ($3,175 per couple; halfmoon. com).

    The Good Life 2007

  • Looking perhaps even more pewtyflushed in her cherry - derry padouasoys, girdle and braces by the halfmoon and Seven

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Between all the Misses Mountsackvilles in their halfmoon haemicycles, gasping to giddies to dye for the shame.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • The best part though was that I got this cool retractable throwing star. it looks kinda like three halfmoon razors are coming out of the end of the points of a triangle.

    avanery Diary Entry avanery 2005

  • I saw something so beautiful: the Roadman standing before a halfmoon altar as he pierced the night sky with arrows of light.

    One River Wade Davis 1996

  • I saw something so beautiful: the Roadman standing before a halfmoon altar as he pierced the night sky with arrows of light.

    One River Wade Davis 1996

  • [It was the flowering season of the year when Europa's false thief — a halfmoon the weapons of his forehead, and the Sun all the rays of his hide — shining honor of the sky, in sapphire fields grazes on stars….]

    The Lapis Lazuli of the Ancient World Schafer, Edward H. 1970

  • A large dish of hash is also ready, and when a customer calls the requisite amount of meat is clapped on one side of the paste, the other half doubled over it, and he departs eating his halfmoon-shaped pie.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 Various

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