half-dying
- a word derived from dying.
Example Sentences
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The only man who was able to throw any light upon the subject was lying amongst them in an unconscious and half-dying condition.
From Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space by Verne, Jules
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
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
You don't want a limp, pallid, half-dying bride, I suppose.
From A Terrible Secret by Fleming, May Agnes
Baucis, to my lips half-dying, Art thou, who refreshment gave?
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. by Francke, Kuno
