Example Sentences

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As she emerged from the inn--for three days she had not been out--she cast a half-shamed, half-defiant look this way and that.

From Starvecrow Farm by Weyman, Stanley J.

In the man's was a half-shamed pride, as if he exulted in the strength with which he had been able to maintain his will against her supreme effort to overthrow it.

From Within the Law by Veiller, Bayard

"Now," she asked him, in a half-shamed whisper, "will you help me?"

From Port O' Gold A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts by Stellman, Louis J. (Louis John)

And as their gaze met, she saw the blood mantle to his face, and a half-shamed expression creep into it, as if he had been discovered in a thought that should never have been permitted.

From Winding Paths by Page, Gertrude

Then their two blushing faces confronted each other with significant half-shamed smiles of innocent young girlhood.

From Pembroke A Novel by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins