half-blown

I should probably do that here, too, but that's what you get when you try to write every weekday: the half-blown, first-draft thoughts of someone who wouldn't mind taking a baseball bat to a sapling.

chicken egg and cheese 2010

Robin's eggs are an easy shade of blue, color I can duplicate with a chord on a guitar like it crawled from half-blown notes in the amplified echo of a synesthesiac's dream.

The man who killed Molly Bloom - Act II 2010

I should probably do that here, too, but that's what you get when you try to write every weekday: the half-blown, first-draft thoughts of someone who wouldn't mind taking a baseball bat to a sapling.

chicken egg and cheese 2010

And before he got blowed up real good, Leslie Arzt gave us a quick history lesson on Ascani Sobrero, the man who invented nitro-glycerine and got his face half-blown off for his troubles.

"LOST" IN THOUGHT Toby O'B 2005

He went to his little garden, and returned with a half-blown rose.

The Black Dwarf 2004

Then they crossed Purbeck field, as it is still called — which twenty years since was a wide waste of land, but is now divided by new fences, very grievous to half-blown horses.

The American Senator 2004

Some had but little confidence in their half-blown horses; with many the waiting, though so abused and anathematized, was in truth more to their taste than the run itself -- with others the excitement had gone by, and a gallop over a field or two was necessary before it would be restored.

Can You Forgive Her? 1993

The half-elf ran a gentle finger along the edge of a half-blown spray of queen™s plume.

Stormblade Berberick, Nancy Varian 1988

Not that I'd patrol with the half-blown reliners they call squadron leaders these days.

Restoree McCaffrey, Anne 1967

She pulled a half-blown rose, I thought it meant for me,

Lundy's Lane and Other Poems Duncan Campbell Scott