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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

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

“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