A hundred half-formed thoughts crowded Daoud's mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference

The note, written in a half-formed, feminine hand, ran thus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Genius] Reference

His half-formed spell spun wildly in the air and then was sucked away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Searching for dragons]

Therefore it was not difficult to turn him from his half-formed purpose.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Genius] Reference

That evening Sheila sang, and all his half-formed resolutions vanished into air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873] Reference

I even had a half-formed thought to scream loudly for help, but I could not do it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

The image was crude and half-formed, as though it had melted before resolidifying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Curse of the Shadowmage]

Then I begin to hunt him, hungrily, potential and half-formed dreams luring me on.    From Wordnik.com.  [jaxraven Diary Entry] Reference

What had been a vague, half-formed dream in his mind bade fair to become a reality.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Trapper Jim in the North Woods] Reference

With this half-formed thought in her mind Betty looked more critically at her chum.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outdoor Girls in Florida Or, Wintering in the Sunny South] Reference

He cleared up the arrears of his work with some half-formed idea that he might go away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruined City]

The half-formed sphere whistled loudly and the spheres circling over the plant answered.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Whispering Spheres] Reference

His half-formed plan to visit the dealer who had sold the cigars departed from his mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Husband by Proxy] Reference

My half-formed honour came to the fore and I said importantly, 'Please step out of our way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shaman's Crossing]

"I wonder if he could be ----?" began Joe, and then he hesitated in his half-formed question.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baseball Joe in the Big League or, A Young Pitcher's Hardest Struggles] Reference

I tried not to hope that she had the same half-formed dreams of a home and children together.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shaman's Crossing]

No one can make me disclose a half-formed song; my mold, my furnace, are safely within my head.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Praise Singer]

Age, illness, too much wear and tear, a half-formed paralysis, may bring any of us to this pass.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860] Reference

Recall the half-formed dreams that so short a time ago brought to thy heart such unutterable joy.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Myths] Reference

Hence, too, no half-formed and then abandoned projects were among the stepping-stones of his career.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873] Reference

But there were evidently other thoughts half-formed, lurking and hiding themselves in the background.    From Wordnik.com.  [Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters] Reference

In her quick mind the new evidence soon crystallized into proof of her already half-formed suspicions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hepsey Burke] Reference

It would have been brief but Michelle hugged back tightly, half-formed thoughts and emotions pinging away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eviction] Reference

This minister quickened the conscience of Cincinnati, and brought into full bloom vague, half-formed ideals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frank H. Nelson of Cincinnati] Reference

There was also, a half-formed Hope within that when she looked so well as she did this morning she would meet the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference

It was set off by a pudgy, half-formed dab of a nose that let his breath in and out when his mouth happened to be shut.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference

The bone, as we call it, is not really bone, but a sort of half-formed shell which the cuttlefish wears under its skin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 16, February 25, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls] Reference

While I had slept, the birds had been at work, and half a dozen half-formed nests were glued to the rocks in easy reach.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos] Reference

She glanced over her shoulder with a half-formed thought of escape, but the man sprang forward and laid a rough hand on her arm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nan Sherwood at Palm Beach Or Strange Adventures Among The Orange Groves] Reference

Instead we were treated to a hodge-podge of buzzwords and rambling sentences that came out half-formed and chasing their own tails.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeanne Devon ("AKMuckraker"): Sarah Palin in Wasilla for 9/11 Rally] Reference

Hiding under his frantic concern for Hetty was the half-formed thought that the whole thing was an atomic explosion and that he and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Make Mine Homogenized] Reference

The round hand of the schoolmaster, under the House of Hanover, degenerating into the careless, half-formed hands of the present day.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861] Reference

I started, for, absurd as it may seem, that very idea, half-formed, undeveloped from very shame at my superstition, had rested in my mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference

With all the perversity of her ill-regulated, half-formed mind, she refused to realize the fact that it had been absolutely impossible for.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Making of a Soul] Reference