Example Sentences

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Jack was silent a moment, while he looked steadily into the brown eyes of his chum, who half-smilingly met the scrutiny.

From Two Boys in Wyoming A Tale of Adventure (Northwest Series, No. 3) by Ellis, Edward Sylvester

The flurry of broken, scattered phrases, half-tearfully, half-smilingly welcoming her back, had spent themselves, and now old Virginie, drawing away, regarded her with bewildered, almost frightened eyes.

From The Lamp of Fate by Pedler, Margaret

“Yes, sir,” I said; “but he had quite an accident on deck,” and I looked half-smilingly in the young doctor’s face, for it was he.

From Sail Ho! A Boy at Sea by Fenn, George Manville

She unconsciously wished that Merwyn would come, and half-smilingly wondered whether he would brave the storm to see her.

From An Original Belle by Roe, Edward Payson