Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

She half dragged, half carried the log.

She married again in her mid-forties.

In Tokyo, the cold season starts in the middle of November.

The difficulty with biography is that it is partly record and partly art.

Life is half spent before we know what it is.

The first prohibition of slavery was in the mid-nineteenth century.

Well begun is half done.

Making a good start is half the battle.

Well begun is half done.

Well begun is half done.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Well begun is half done.

By then Tony was in his middle sixties and still able to work hard, but he had a brand-new truck now, a new mower, a lot of other equipment and three people helping him.

Well begun is half done.

Let's hope this boat engine doesn't give up the ghost when we're halfway to Hawaii.

There's many a slip between the cup and the lip.

Well begun is half done.

Tom is in his mid-thirties.

Tom is in his mid-seventies.