Example Sentences

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“Oh, Mr Deering,” she said, half-tearfully, half in anger, “I do wish you would stop in town.”

From The Weathercock Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias by Cooper, A.W.

And as he half-tearfully dried himself, he felt moved as he rarely had been.

From The Mantooth by Leadem, Christopher

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