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He carries a knotted whip in one hand, and seems to look ferociously on poor Joan in her half-manly, half-feminine garb.

From Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches by Black, Helen C.

Then, with a half-feminine touch of vanity, he added, "You must excuse me: I am hardly fit to go with you."

From Paul Patoff by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)

In the young Englishman's half-feminine face she read the same deep thoughts, the same pensive melancholy, the same passive acquiescence in a painful lot, and an endurance like her own.

From A Woman of Thirty by Balzac, Honoré de

There was something in Anne that checked the primitive impulse of swift chase, and called forth the curious half-feminine cunning of the sophisticated pursuer.

From The Helpmate by Sinclair, May

In short, when you look at the smooth, happy, half-feminine face of Shakespeare, you see one to whom all forms of debauchery were ungenial.

From Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce by Billings, E. R.