half-laughingly

"Away with your blarney!" exclaimed Myra, half-laughingly, half-impatiently, but conscious of a queer little thrill as she met his smiling glance.

Bandit Love Juanita Savage

"But I am a paid companion," she protested, half-laughingly.

Grey Town An Australian Story Gerald Baldwin

"My darling," she said, "you must try at once to convince him that you were only joking -- you can say half-laughingly --"

The Treasure Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

"Maybe Pudge will pick them up," I said half-laughingly to myself, never thinking for one moment that such would be the case.

Love Conquers All Robert Benchley 1917

He said it half-laughingly, taking his cue from her.

Saint Martin's Summer Rafael Sabatini 1912

Besides, as he had half-laughingly insinuated, perhaps he knew better than Chouart Groseillers of the Ste.

Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade 1903

"And that's the greatest of all your illusions," he said, half-laughingly and half-irritably.

Jack O' Judgment Edgar Wallace 1903

Justine had raised her eyes half-laughingly to Amherst, but they dropped before the unexpected seriousness of his.

The Fruit of the Tree Edith Wharton 1899

"Any time to lock up?" demanded Tom, half-laughingly.

The Motor Boat Club and The Wireless Or, the Dot, Dash and Dare Cruise 1895

She fancied that he had been in England; but she explained half-laughingly that she knew very little about his affairs, and was quite content to leave them to him.

Lore of Proserpine Maurice Hewlett 1892