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  • It took a moment to figure it out: even half-obscured by the dress, the woman had powerful shoulders, muscular arms, and strong calves.

    DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010

  • It took a moment to figure it out: even half-obscured by the dress, the woman had powerful shoulders, muscular arms, and strong calves.

    DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010

  • Down below, tucked away in a steep gorge and half-obscured behind unfinished apartment blocks, stood the Monteverde Hotel, a faded resort that once served as a summer getaway for middle-class Beirutis.

    Getting Away With Murder? 2008

  • It took a moment to figure it out: even half-obscured by the dress, the woman had powerful shoulders, muscular arms, and strong calves.

    DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010

  • With light nearly gone, all at once we happened upon some half-obscured tracks cutting across our path—human footprints—and immediately my fatigue melted away, replaced by unutterable joy.

    The Curse of the Wendigo William James Henry 2010

  • Down below, tucked away in a steep gorge and half-obscured behind unfinished apartment blocks, stood the Monteverde Hotel, a faded resort that once served as a summer getaway for middle-class Beirutis.

    Getting Away With Murder? 2008

  • And it was there, one day in his youth, that Henshilwood discovered a cave half-obscured by a sand dune.

    When Did We Become Mentally Modern? 2010

  • And it was there, one day in his youth, that Henshilwood discovered a cave half-obscured by a sand dune.

    When Did We Become Mentally Modern? 2010

  • Down below, tucked away in a steep gorge and half-obscured behind unfinished apartment blocks, stood the Monteverde Hotel, a faded resort that once served as a summer getaway for middle-class Beirutis.

    Getting Away With Murder? 2008

  • With light nearly gone, all at once we happened upon some half-obscured tracks cutting across our path—human footprints—and immediately my fatigue melted away, replaced by unutterable joy.

    The Curse of the Wendigo William James Henry 2010

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