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But the last couple of shifts he's been listless and unshaven, and tonight he looks like the ghost we all know him to be, with dark halfmoons hanging from his eyes.
Nickel and Dimed Ehrenreich, Barbara 2001
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Her pink dress had white frills like a nightgown, and like a nightgown it was cut low to show milk-white halfmoons and shoulders where even the bones looked soft.
A Guilty Thing Surprised Rendell, Ruth, 1930- 1970
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Have a piece of pasteboard cut into squares, circles, triangles, halfmoons, stars and other forms.
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-- A portable fortification, able to contain five hundred fighting men, and yet, in six hours 'time, may be set up and made cannon proof, upon the side of a river or pass, with cannon mounted upon it, and as complete as a regular fortification, with halfmoons and counterscarps.
The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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