Semi

Examples

• His notes include the use of powdered silicon mixed with lime or other very infusible non-conductors or semi-conductors. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• There was no sound, and he glided into the semi-darkness of the interior. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The terms semi-anthracite, semi-bituminous, coking coal, splint coal, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Yes, she answered, laying down her work, which she had been carrying on with a languid semi-consciousness, most unlike her usual self. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• In semi-civilised countries, with little free communication, the spreading of a new sub-breed will be a slow process. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The fat youth gave a semi-cannibalic leer at Mr. Weller, as he thought of the roast legs and gravy. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Mr Job Potterson, a semi-seafaring man of obliging demeanour, said, 'Thank you, sir. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• This semi-mystery of the _parure_ was not solved till two or three days afterwards, when she came to make a voluntary confession. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Acid sulphuric, a sufficient quantity to decompose the ammonia fluoride and making the mixture of a semi-fluid consistency. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• For this purpose the lens is movably mounted for a semi-circular swing, and the image is flashed across a curved film in the case. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Lee interpreted this as a semi-retreat of the Army of the Potomac to Fredericksburg, and so informed his government. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He wore a semi-military smoking jacket, claret-coloured, with a black velvet collar. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• He took a large semi-circular bite out of the toast, and groaned again. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• On an adjacent island lived a kind of semi-pirate called Alcibiades, who was, and is, a thorough blackguard. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• She hated him for the seasoned, semi-paternal animalism with which he regarded her, but she admired his weight of strength. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Semis, half, affixed to signs as above. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.

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