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He was acutely conscious of his only half-admitted reason for this visit.

From A Lost Leader by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

As they sat facing one another in the silent, half-darkened room, Mannering trying to bring himself into accord with half-admitted but repugnant convictions, she watching him hopelessly, the tinkle of a hansom bell sounded outside.

From A Lost Leader by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

The borrowed plumes, the delegated authority of so many of his equals, raise him to a half-admitted equality with an English nobleman.

From Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry by Rolleston, T. W. (Thomas William)

A half-admitted, intoxicating sense of imminent action possessed him; and as he walked forward it seemed that he scarcely felt the ground beneath his feet.

From The Gambler A Novel by Thurston, Katherine Cecil

Hawthorne's breaking health soon affects the family with half-admitted dread.

From Memories of Hawthorne by Lathrop, Rose Hawthorne