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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

Finn the Red-Handed had stolen a skillet and a quantity of half-cured leaf tobacco, and had also brought a few corn-cobs to make pipes with.

From The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 4. by Twain, Mark

It's only half-cured, and smells like a tan-yard!

From The Fortunes of Philippa A School Story by Brazil, Angela

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