half-mournful

The hoardings around a nearby development site were decorated with giant pictures of the old city and a half-mocking, half-mournful slogan: “Our old town: Gone with the wind.”

When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

The hoardings around a nearby development site were decorated with giant pictures of the old city and a half-mocking, half-mournful slogan: “Our old town: Gone with the wind.”

When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

The hoardings around a nearby development site were decorated with giant pictures of the old city and a half-mocking, half-mournful slogan: “Our old town: Gone with the wind.”

When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

Through the quiet came a sound, a sighing, a half-mournful whispering that beat about us and fled away.

The Moon Pool 2004

A half-mournful, half-ironical expression passed over his face.

A House of Gentlefolk 2003

And Jake said, “Oh, Jake!” in a voice that was half-mournful and half-chastising, and she thought, Torn?

Memory of Fire Lisle, Holly 2002

Whenever I have need to strengthen myself in all that is good, I turn my thoughts to him; I see again the gentle expression of his half-smiling, half-mournful face; I hear his voice, always soft and soothing as a breath of summer!

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

Jeremy's last thought was a half-mournful one as he wondered how long it must be before he, too, could throw himself against the broad homespun wall of his father's breast.

The Black Buccaneer 1934

On a dark corner three men and a boy were playing a _marimba_, a frame with dried bars of wood as keys which, beaten with small wooden mallets, gave off a weird, half-mournful music that floated slowly away into the heavy hot night.

Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond Harry Alverson Franck 1921

Amory paced the board walk at day's end, lulled by the everlasting surge of changing waves, smelling the half-mournful odor of the salt breeze.

Book 2, Chapter 4. The Supercilious Sacrifice. 1920