Example Sentences

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And he added, in his half-pedantic, half-pleasing way, "I shall be as wax in your hands, mamma."

From The Longest Journey by Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan)

Two small white stones had been erected, and I sat down on the grass and spent an half hour in gentle musing, and in half-sad, half-pleasing memories.

From Arthur Hamilton, and His Dog by Anonymous

On the white lid and dark lashes of her downcast eye trembled all that is graceful in the sense of half-painful, half-pleasing shame.

From Shirley by Brontë, Charlotte