Example Sentences

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He held his pipe unlighted, while he watched the logs with a half-fascinated stare.

From The Backwoodsmen by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir

His brows came down over his fiery eyes, and he seemed to stand at gaze like an animal, half-fascinated and half-suspicious.

From In the Wilderness by Hichens, Robert Smythe

It was given in the clear but startled accents of the half frightened, half-fascinated Johnny Billings, in three words:— "'Lige Curtis, sir!"

From A First Family of Tasajara by Harte, Bret

"No, thank you," said Stephen, looking still into the half-unwilling, half-fascinated eyes, as a thirsty man looks toward the track of the distant brook.

From The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George

"What have you learnt?" she asked in a low voice, half-fascinated by the danger into which she knew that she was running.

From With Edged Tools by Merriman, Henry Seton