please
adverb
(used as a polite addition to requests, commands, etc.) if you would be so obliging; kindly.
half-pleased
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a word derived from
please.
Example Sentences
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"Three cheers for Miss Tresize!" shouted some one, and a minute later, Nancy, half-angry and half-pleased, was blushing at the shouts of her friends.
From All for a Scrap of Paper A Romance of the Present War by Joseph Hocking
A half-pleased, half-startled look came over his face.
From Two Maiden Aunts by Mary H. Debenham
Caroline drew a deep breath, and cast a half-frightened, half-pleased glance at her maid, Eliza, who stood near by, looking grimly at preparations she could not understand.
From The Old Countess; or, The Two Proposals by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
She looked at him for a moment, with a half-pleased, half-puzzled expression coming into her face.
From A Life For a Love A Novel by L. T. Meade
It was very provoking; they had a sort of magnetic power, that forced her to look that way, and she fancied she detected a half-pleased smile in recognition of the involuntary suffusion.
From Bluebell A Novel by Mrs. George Croft Huddleston
