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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

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.

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

A less innocent girl than Sophia might have divined from that adorable half-feminine smile that she could do anything with Gerald except rely on him.

From The Old Wives' Tale by Bennett, Arnold

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.