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By taking his own amoral unconscious as a point of departure for half-romantic, half-eclectic labors Klee followed a great German tradition which began with Goethe.

From Time Magazine Archive

His exploits are told in old ballads and half-romantic histories, and it is not safe to believe them implicitly, but his existence and his gallant resistance are certain.

From Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

Will you both agree to a compromise and accept some half-romantic, half-pious verses which I composed and set to music?

From A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett by Venable, William Henry

It was strange to think that this was the environment of those half-romantic figures of history.

From The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age by Paine, Albert Bigelow

Another German maintains that Thucydides has indulged in “a fanciful and half-romantic picture of events.”

From Historical Essays by Rhodes, James Ford