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One time, I swear, as God is my witness, he went next door to Conan's and got a haircut while I sat there drinking coffee and watching his half-bowl of chili for him.
The Little Mornings Albrecht, C. M. 2004
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The standard fixed dome plant has a half-bowl spherical shape with flat bottom and a top opening.
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Then that was cupped in a rounded half-bowl and fed once more into a runnel that ran on out into the meadow and disappeared.
Here Abide Monsters Norton, Andre 1973
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I have the sailor's love for woods, for their depths, their shadows, their mysteries, which are so vivid a contrast to the monotony of the sea, with the everlasting circle of the horizon and the half-bowl of the heavens above.
The Diary of a U-boat Commander With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne Stephen King-Hall 1929
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It is so thin there are no calves to its legs; its belly protrudes; it lives on a half-bowl of corn meal and grease a day.
slacktivist 2010
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Grandma spent the original, your mother said to her grandmother, half-bowl too eat each meal, just to do not catch her.
VInvesting.com 2010
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Mother appears to despair, and even that half-bowl too are without food, Lang Lang to stagger stagger out the door,
VInvesting.com 2010
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