Example Sentences

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He paused, half-minded to let the matter rest.

From The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel by Dawson, Coningsby

She was half-minded to say to him, "Do you mean that you love me, Fenwick?"

From Somehow Good by De Morgan, William Frend

Now their horses were failing them, but they would take me, and delay would give the king another chance; and I was half-minded to stay and fight.

From Wulfric the Weapon Thane by Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts)

I said, and I played my point about his leg, half-minded to give him a little prod by way of earnest.

From The Story of Francis Cludde by Weyman, Stanley John

He was half-minded to rush and kick it down.

From Home Fires in France by Canfield, Dorothy