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The prose ripples and rises to dancing measure when the King of the Age, wandering in a lonely palace, comes upon the half-petrified youth, "the Ensorcelled Prince."

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

I may remark that all the very ancient specimens of the relics of the true cross are of the same wood, which has a very peculiar half-petrified appearance.

From Visits To Monasteries in the Levant by Curzon, Robert

Richard hurriedly reversed the mass of plaster on the table, and released Margaret's half-petrified fingers.

From The Stillwater Tragedy by Aldrich, Thomas Bailey

She hung, listening, with a backward swerve of figure, and regarding him in the dim light of the swinging hall-lamp, for the moment half-petrified.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 by Various