Example Sentences

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His vitality—he ought to be in bed, half-dying, with those bruises, and starved as he is.

From The Admirable Tinker Child of the World by Jepson, Edgar

Innocent!—she who had once been all brightness and gaiety,—was this desolate, half-dying, stricken creature the same girl?

From Innocent : her fancy and his fact by Corelli, Marie

But, greatly to his relief, the figure immediately afterwards revealed itself in the person of one of the men, silently placing an armful of wood on the half-dying embers.

From From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New by Stables, Gordon

Orlando led his cousin's horse where the press was thickest, and dreadful was the strength of the dying man and of his half-dying companion.

From Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 1 by Dante Alighieri

This crushed, half-dying woman, who had not slept, who was so particular over her dressing, had recovered the strength of a lioness at bay, and the presence of mind of a general under fire.

From Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Balzac, Honoré de