half-killed

• “A young orphan boy who lives a sheltered life with his uncle is suddenly thrown into a magical new world where he is the ONLY one who can ultimately defeat the most horrible villain in the land, who was previously half-killed, now has no body, and is trying to regain his power.”

  Who (or what) is your Entertainer of the Decade? | EW.com

• “You had them half-killed - 'twasn't your fault they didn't kick the bucket, and you never thought twice about damnation!”

  Fictionaut: THE NUMBERS

• “Not unlike that gigantic Chinese brigandess who half-killed me on the road to Nanking, but civilised, you understand, and willing to chat afterwards, in a frank, easy way which you'd not have expected from her lofty style and figurehead.”

  Fictionaut: Watershed

• “Yet she was in good health: a condition of suspense, which would have half-killed a man, had been endured by her without complaint, and even with composure.”

  A Changed Man

• “She did not talk at all about her own sufferings at breaking from him, for indeed, this worthy woman, though she was half-killed by the separation from the child, yet thought it was very wicked in her to repine at losing him; but everything concerning him, his virtues, talents, and prospects, she poured out.”

  Vanity Fair

• “He sent over preserves and pickles, which latter the young gentleman tried surreptitiously in the sideboard and half-killed himself with eating.”

  Vanity Fair

• “Sometimes they conspire to run a man up the huge stair, and bring him, half-killed and fainting, to the top.”

  Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo

• “These cells they stuff full of half-dead spiders and caterpillars, which they seem wonderfully to know how to sting to that degree as to leave them paralysed but alive, until their eggs are hatched; and the larvae feed on the horrid mass of powerless, half-killed victims — a sight which has been described by an enthusiastic naturalist18 as curious and pleasing!”

  Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle

• “He'd have had me half-killed for attacking the steward.”

  The Hermit of Eyton Forest

• “Still beneath his sack, his hoarse croak demanded aggrievedly: "Where were you so long, and me half-killed?”

  St. Peter's Fair

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