"Mammy!" the little one cried again and again, stretching itself forward so as almost to escape from Silas's arms, before he himself was aware that there was something more than the bush before him--that there was a human body, with the head sunk low in the furze, and
half-covered with the shaken snow.
If she had finished her trip she would have struck some big rocks in the edge of the water, and then the torrent would have snatched her downstream among the
half-covered boulders and she would have been pounded to pulp in two minutes.
She was in a pink dress that looked as fresh as a rose; her dazzling white arms and shoulders were
half-covered with a thin hazy scarf through which they sparkled; her hair hung in curls round her neck; one of her little feet peeped out from the fresh crisp folds of the silk: the prettiest little foot in the prettiest little sandal in the finest silk stocking in the world.
As Morrel and his son embraced on the pier-head, in the presence and amid the applause of the whole city witnessing this event, a man, with his face
half-covered by a black beard, and who, concealed behind the sentry-box, watched the scene with delight, uttered these words in a low tone: "Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds."
He had swung round his revolving chair so as to face me, and he sat all puffed out like an enormous bull-frog, his head laid back and his eyes
half-covered by supercilious lids.
And those who may want to choose to be in darkness and want to deceive themselves, we can leave them in darkness but majority of us have to be in the light and let the light shine upon us so that we can see our faces, we can see ourselves as we are, where we are naked, let us see ourselves as naked, where we are
half-covered, let us see ourselves as
half-covered, where we are fully clothed, let us see ourselves as fully clothed.
The poster in question shows Kangana's face which is
half-covered with a cat, while Rajkummar Rao's face is
half-covered with a mouse, an indication to the cat and mouse chase which the movie is all about.
Indoor and
half-covered sports palaces, as well as stadiums and various sports grounds for tennis, large and small swimming pools for swimming and other water sports, and a palace for ice sports will be built here.
The photograph shows a man, in his early thirties, lying on his back with his eyes open,
half-covered by a blue plastic sheet.
That was when the image of the poet in his red wheelchair flashed, as if in rebuke, and the woman in white turned, so you saw her profile above those
half-covered shoulders, and longed to know who she was, perhaps an admirer from some village on the other side of the island, who when the service was over would take a bus to go there, like the girl the poet wrote about in Light of the World, whom he watched dismount, wishing he could follow to her door, a stranger calling out to remind him he had forgotten his cigarettes.
When I went to pick out this month's subject, the sky was
half-covered with patchy clouds.