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Annie finally got something she could dig into: Half-moon ravioli ($19/26) with Tuscan Pecorino cheese and sage butter, with a profusion of shaved black truffles from Molise (in the boot of Italy).
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Half-moon pupils on oily skin, and she swallows against coffee and mushrooms in her throat.
Sock me in the stomach until I forget it. Down, down, baby. Down by the roller coaster. 2010
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Half-moon spectacles were perched on his crooked nose, and he was wearing a long black traveling cloak and. 1 pointed hat.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Rowling, J. K. 2005
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Half-moon; being permitted in this way to revisit the scenes of his enterprise, and keep a guardian eye upon the river, and the great city called by his name.
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Half-moon feathery lashes couldn't disguise the dark circles beneath her eyes.
Too Many Bosses Freed, Jan 1995
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Again, after we have climbed the hill to Swan Lake, and have dined beside Half-moon Pond, and have "laid our course," as the sailors say, by our map and the sun, straight through the Scrub to visit Lake Ella, we come out upon the heights above Lake Hutchinson.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 Various
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Half-moon; being permitted in this way to revisit the scenes of his enterprise, and keep a guardian eye upon the river, and the great city called by his name.
The Short-story William Patterson Atkinson
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Hendrick Hudson, the first discoverer of the river and country, kept a kind of vigil there every twenty years, with his crew of the Half-moon; being permitted in this way to revisit the scenes of his enterprise, and keep a guardian eye upon the river and the great city called by his name.
Elson Grammar School Literature v4 William H. Elson
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The great ship channel, with the unconquered Half-moon upon one side and the incomplete batteries and platforms of Bucquoy on the other, still defiantly opened its passage to the sea, and the retiring fleets of the garrison were white in the offing.
Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers Benj. N. Martin
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That it was affirmed that the great Hendrick Hudson, the first discoverer of the river and country, kept a kind of vigil there every twenty years, with his crew of the Half-moon; being permitted in this way to revisit the scenes of his enterprise, and keep a guardian eye upon the river, and the great city called by his name.
Rip Van Winkle, a Posthumous Writing of Diedrich Knickerbocker 1917
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