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At 25, Sofia is a half-English, half-Greek anthropology student who works in a London cafe called the Coffee House but mostly tends to the petulant demands of her mother, Rose.

From New York Times • Jul. 10, 2016

Just behind them sat their guide, a thin and eager Levantine, half-Greek and half-Armenian, who, for some inscrutable reason, declared that his name was John.

From In the Wilderness by Hichens, Robert Smythe

Synorix is, in fact, half-Greek, half-Celt, with a Roman education, and the "blend" is rather too remote for successful representation.

From Alfred Tennyson by Lang, Andrew

These they found in the half-Greek, half-cosmopolitan culture which had there taken root and spread widely in the East.

From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Cruttwell, Charles Thomas

He had become especially enamoured of Giotto, the half-Catholic, the half-Greek Giotto.

From The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume I by Barrington, Mrs. Russell