half relief
Americannoun
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She started a little and gave him a look, half wonder, half relief, and then fell to twisting the fringe of her poor shawl again.
From In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
A very celebrated curiosity is the large urn or vase of blue glass, with figures carved on it in half relief, in white.
From Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy by Stockton, Frank Richard
She nestled close in his arm with a sigh of half relief.
From Arizona Nights by White, Stewart Edward
Some of the blades are watered, others chased in half relief with hunting-scenes—some serrated, others flamboyant.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. by Various
They are in half relief; and, so far as we could decipher them, they seemed to be Toltec rather than Aztec.
From Aztec Land by Ballou, Maturin Murray
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