half-bared

My hand shook shamefully as I held it, and then I lifted it, letting the crucifix dangle, and I hurled it at her, so that it struck her, just above her small hands, right on the white swell of her half-bared breasts.

Vittorio, The Vampire Rice, Anne, 1941- 1999

She turned her back and raised her half-bared arms to the shelves again.

The Apples of Hesperides, Kansas 1996

His pale-blue gaze traveled over her throat and half-bared bosom; his mouth widened a little, but what was in his eyes could never have been called a smile.

The Silent Tower Hambly, Barbara 1986

Strength, with a terrifying body of blue rays of light, a chortling mouth and fangs half-bared, roaring out ferocious cries, with twelve eyes, twenty-six arms, four faces and two legs, originating from discriminating awareness and method.

Abbreviated Kalachakra Mind Mandala Sadhana sDe-khri 'Jam-dbyangs thub-bstan nyi-ma 1985

Strength, with a terrifying body of blue rays of light, a chortling mouth and fangs half-bared, roaring out ferocious cries, with twelve eyes, twenty-six arms, four faces and two legs, originating from discriminating awareness and method.

Abbreviated Kalachakra Mind Mandala Sadhana sDe-khri 'Jam-dbyangs thub-bstan nyi-ma 1985

She danced, slowly at first, then gaining in tempo until musky sweat glistened on her now half-bared breasts.

The Eternal Mercenary Sadler, Barry 1980

Her hand scooped up the knife, and she came charging toward him, her mouth a taut slit across half-bared teeth.

Police Your Planet Lester Del Rey 1954

It is the tiger way to tease, long moments, with half-bared talons; to let the prey crawl away a few feet for the rapture of leaping at it again; to fondle with an exquisite cruelty for moments that seem endless to its prey.

O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 Various

A man, in half-bared arms dotted about the wrists with remnants of what they call gurry-sores, stood at the water's edge, waiting to lend a hand.

Sweetapple Cove George van Schaick

Less than twenty yards away, and not far from the bluff, a vigorous rivulet started from beneath the half-bared roots of a monster beech, and fell over an outcropping boulder into a pool so clear that sand on its bottom, worked mysteriously into a pattern by the action of the water, lay revealed.

Hiram the Young Farmer Burbank L. Todd