This major strand of contemporary history lay half-buried.    From Wordnik.com.  [Children of Resistence] Reference

It was lying half-buried in the sand, a corner sticking up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selections from Poe] Reference

The Dome shone like a second moon, half-buried in the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last of the Wilds]

It had come from somewhere close by, and sounded half-buried.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reiffeins Choice] Reference

When he hesitated, her half-buried eyes glittered raven black.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow Rising]

Quinn and Frannie lay half-buried under a pile of loose rubble.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Together Dead]

Another sword was lying twenty yards away, half-buried in the sand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Status Civilization] Reference

The bike shone in a corner, half-buried under Lily's outdoor clothes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bill-Toppers] Reference

Points of interest were the half-buried and utterly filthy village of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry and 14th (F. & F. Yeo.) Battn. R.H. 1914-1919] Reference

GRACE: The T-shirt itself was found half-buried, is that what you said?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 17, 2006] Reference

Nearly there, he saw what looked like a black rock half-buried ahead of him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference

He was pointing down to an object lying half-buried in the soil at his feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Regeneration] Reference

A gleam of something enduring and undefeatable came into his half-buried eye.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oberheim (Voices)] Reference

In the tunnel under Sinclair Road, Suslev was choking, half-buried in rubble.    From Wordnik.com.  [Noble House]

It consisted of a weed-covered field, a battered metal slide and a half-buried tire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tamar Abrams: Swings Across the World] Reference

Hugh John scratched the freestone of a half-buried tomb with a nail till told to stop.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference

I looked where he indicated and saw a chair that was half-buried under shirts and boxes.    From Wordnik.com.  [There's Something In A Sunday]

White boulders had been carefully polished and placed in circles, half-buried in the soil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lion Of Macedon]

Her elbow leaned upon the railing, and her pensive face lay half-buried in one slender hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference

And the goddess looked, and saw, close by, a little heap of bones, that lay half-buried in the sand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bubbles of the Foam] Reference

We found quantities of these bags, made of coarse linen, lying half-buried under the walls of the chapel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference

The winds of evening were reminiscent of the dead horses and mules that remained half-buried on the banks.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference

When he returned to the site in April, it had become a plowed-up mess of mud and green but half-buried sod.    From Wordnik.com.  [Genocide Without Corpses] Reference

It is poised by a little projection, like an inverted cone, upon another rock lying half-buried in the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference

It was difficult to separate his memory of the half-buried globe he had seen from his sickness of that moment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Time Traders] Reference

His right foot now rested upon a corner of the discarded topcoat lying half-buried there in the blue-gray dust.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zehru of Xollar] Reference

For a moment after Bone and Lufkins joined him at the spot, the blacksmith stood looking at the half-buried three.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bruvver Jim's Baby] Reference

He rolled his mantle for a pillow and flung himself into the grass, where he lay, half-buried in green, and slept.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference

Meanwhile the outdoor girls, having raced to the goal, an old boat half-buried in the sand, came to a panting halt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outdoor Girls at Ocean View Or, The Box That Was Found in the Sand] Reference

In the twilight I see here and there half-buried pillars of some famous temple -- a temple that surely never stood here.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Three Days in Gilead] Reference

Luther Hansen ran and flung himself down on his knees beside it, dragging at the half-buried form of the girl in frantic haste.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference

Loll lay fast asleep on his small floor-pallet, his face half-buried in his pillow, his mouth reverted to the pout of babyhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where the Sun Swings North] Reference

Like an old, half-buried pile, reluctant to budge from its bed in sand and ooze, the human form was slowly dragged from the place.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Furnace of Gold] Reference

Our tent was set for the night in a valley that we reached by a path half-buried in undergrowth and known only to the head muleteer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morocco] Reference

Somehow, someway, he had to get back -- out of this half-buried ship and its icebound world -- back to where he could find his own people.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Time Traders] Reference