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He became disenchanted about the first two, and out of this half-cured 19th century disenchantment he created his 20th century art�as tragic and as comic and perhaps ultimately as mystifying as life itself.

From Time Magazine Archive

Instead he puts on pop-eyed fits, refers to the asylum darkly as "that place," protests too much in trying to give an accurate picture of a half-cured madman.

From Time Magazine Archive

The bean is perfectly white till the silver skin starts; it then begins gradually to assume the dark, or what is called the half-cured appearance.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.

But she did not pause until the last patch of hair crisped close to the half-cured surface of the hide.

From Into the Primitive by Bennett, Robert Ames

On April 26, he arrived again at the front, with his arm half-cured and the wounds scarcely healed.

From Georges Guynemer Knight of the Air by Sill, Louise Morgan