Lily felt half-dead with fatigue before she started.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bill-Toppers] Reference

I've only got my father's father, and he's half-dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]

He gestured and the half-dead fire flared into an inferno.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Burning City]

“You know what I call a half-dead lawyer?” the voice asked.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devil's Bargain]

A decrepit coach drawn by two half-dead horses drew up to the moat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zombie Lover]

"Please your excellency, a little boy lying in the road, half-dead.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference

It looks, even if it weren't shot in the head, half-dead and starving.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cougar] Reference

Andthere's T.J. in the water, flopping around like a half-dead sea lion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Till the Butchers Cut Him Down]

Do not mind what you see with the eye of a conscience that is already half-dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Priest's Keepsake] Reference

He dropped limply to the ground, half-dead with fright, and with his face a sickly green.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference

One is a half-dead form -- the afterglow of a great form -- and the other is vibrant and new.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telling It As He Sees It] Reference

The noose slipped, and I was dangling in the air in excruciating agony, half-dead and half-alive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843] Reference

I tumbled into Broadfoot's camp half-dead with terror, which he fortunately mistook for exhaustion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashman]

The nomination of Blaine in 1884 was a fresh breeze on the half-dead embers of the Mulligan letters.    From Wordnik.com.  [The United States Since the Civil War] Reference

It was a new pain that brought Morgan to his senses, the pain of returning life to his half-dead arms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trail's End] Reference

I was silent, remembering -- I don't know why -- the half-dead boy I had carried home to Skunk's Misery.    From Wordnik.com.  [The La Chance Mine Mystery] Reference

Occasionally they fought their way to the half-dead tree and brought back armfuls of its smaller branches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods] Reference

SHUSHAN: It would be nice to see her in good times, because she saw me only half-dead, so it would be nice.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 19, 2004] Reference

Philip rinsed the half-dead eel as carefully as he could in the bucket, then tossed it into the salt water.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pillars of the Earth]

Alexandra, half-dead from exhaustion, gave herself over to Lefka's care and was lead away to a tiny cottage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The English Witch]

Think of that poor cat, who was probably half-dead with fright, and the doggie with the can tied to his tail.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Round World And What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 24, April 22, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls] Reference

The slave, perplexed and half-dead, said within himself, 'The prince must have lost his senses through grief.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights] Reference

When Jogues fell drenched in blood and half-dead, he was recalled to consciousness by fire applied to his body.    From Wordnik.com.  [French Pathfinders in North America] Reference

Both exhumed half-dead children of themselves whose eyes were blinded by pain and too much exposure to darkness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Corpus of a Siam Mosquito] Reference

It is 'a meditation or prayer, thrown forth of my sorrowful heart and pronounced by my half-dead tongue, 'on 12th.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Knox] Reference

At last, after many pains and perils, half-dead with hunger and fatigue, they reached a village of the Huron country.    From Wordnik.com.  [French Pathfinders in North America] Reference

So frightened were the natives at the greatness of the English ships that at first they ran away, half-dead with fear.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference

This poor Edith Brandon, still half-dead from her grief, has been able to tell us that she has still a relative living.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cord and Creese] Reference

"And this other I'd drop down loose like," said Trapper Jim, as he held up the bunch of half-dead weeds he had collected.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Trapper Jim in the North Woods] Reference

His parents, his two friends, and a dog that at its best had never seemed bright and now was obviously half-dead with age.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Short Life] Reference

But it was not until the second afternoon that the aviator arrived, half-dead with thirst and fatigue, and almost incoherent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference

The old half-dead, but vital call of the aboriginal woman rose in her, then ebbed away at birth in a feeble flickering jealousy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joyce of the North Woods] Reference

I saw a bicycle on its side in the center of a half-dead lawn, a garden hose that lay unfurled like a somnolent snake-but no people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devil's Waltz]

The daughter certainly looked half-dead with fright, but she was standing almost on her own, leaning only slightly on her trembling father.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hotel New Hampshire]