There was only one case of lion mauling, and that a Cape Boy who met a young half-grown cub on the road and unwisely ran from it.

I was half-grown before I understood what a 'skeleton in a closet' was.

Consequently, there never was such a collection of crude pippins and half-grown windfalls as our native literature displays among its fruits.

Sahwah and Miss Judy had somewhat recovered their composure by this time, and having captured the wildly agitated stocking they released from it a half-grown chipmunk, who, beside himself with fright and bewilderment, dashed away into the woods like a flash.

They ran about the mud on the edge of the grass, especially in the morning, looking like half-grown pullets.

We were eagerly watching, and speculating on the cause of the uproar, when a very fine half-grown tiger cub sprang out of some closely growing fern, and dashed across the narrow opening so quickly, that ere we had time to raise a gun, he had disappeared in some heavy jhamun jungle on the further side of the path.

At the door stood a half-grown boy, stamping his feet to keep warm, as he droned out in sing-song fashion: "Walk in, gentlefolk, and have your razors ground; we have all manner of kitchen furniture in cutlery within, also catgut and fiddle strings at most reasonable rates.

Agnes came out among the last, veiled, and moving quickly through the crowd of half-grown boys, and men about town, and poor relations who lay in wait and hovered around the lamp over the stage door like moths about a candle.

He was shown the chicken-yardfull of gawky, half-grown chickens shedding their down and growing their feathersand forgot his feet in the fascination of scattering grain to them and watching their fluttering scrambles.

"On reaching the street, I inquired at a half-grown boy where we might obtain a lodging; and after causing me to inquire twice or thrice'I no ken, Sawneyhaud awa' north,' said the brat, sarcastically imitating my accent.

That afternoon some half-grown boys got to runnin' foot-races and Mike entered.

I was a little girl in low-necked gingham dresses, I know, because I remember I had on one (of a purple shade, and incredibly unbecoming to a half-grown, brunette girl) one evening when my first gentleman caller came to see me.

"... "The half-grown man never understands that woman is happiest, and at her best in all her services to him, when he depends upon her for a few of the finer things."...

In the street before him a pair of half-grown cockerels with ludicrously long legs and abbreviated tails were scratching a precarious living from amid the litter.

He could not forget that half-grown lad who, in order to make the voyage in his company, had gone to meet his death.

The next sun rose fair over the green, rolling, open land, rich in half-grown crops of cotton and corn between fence-rows of persimmon and sassafras.

The young half-grown nuts are much used for pickles.

There were four half-grown young standing on it.

Now and then the monstrous uniformity of horror in assault and reprisal was broken by some deed out of the common; some instance where despair nerved the frame of woman or of half-grown boy; some strange incident in the career of a backwoods hunter, whose profession perpetually exposed him to Indian attack, but also trained him as naught else could to evade and repel it.

Go to some enterprising half-grown Western or interior Eastern town, announce yourself in possession of all the Paris styles (as you are), and launch out.

My father and brothers were away, as were all the other men in the neighborhood, except a few very old ones and some half-grown boys.

As a half-grown boy I killed our good, kind watchdog in one of my fits of rage for some trifling offense, and I have never ceased to regret it.

SALZGURKEN Take half-grown cucumbers; lay them in water overnight, then wipe each one dry and reject all that are soft at the ends.

In a few moments the effect of the whiskey became apparent; the half-grown bird could no longer stand on one leg, but used both, placing them well apart for support.

The other sisters were long since gone, scattered north and south with half-grown families; and the big house was almost empty save when they came in troops to visit it.