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  • Knowing that many problems beset the high Priest, he summoned lXbalanque, threw his arms about the old man, and cried in a half-tearful voice, 'Ixbalanque, you are going to get your godV The priest struggled to free himself from the embrace and asked:

    Mexico Michener, James 1992

  • It's a shame I can't come to America with you, 'said Alison, to Sadie, half-tearful at the thought of saying good-bye to her friend.

    Summer Term At St Clare's Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1967

  • She raised her head from his knees and offered him -- of her own free will -- her sweet lips, and then clung to him with a half-tearful, maidenly shame.

    Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden Charles Garvice

  • It was ten months ago that they had said a half-tearful, half-laughing good-bye to each other on the windy, sunny pier at Hoboken.

    Four Days The Story of a War Marriage Hetty Hemenway

  • She had rolled in somehow over the side, and sat soaked and heavy, half-laughing and half-tearful, right at his feet.

    The End of the Rainbow Mary Esther Miller MacGregor 1918

  • Charlotte, flushed and half-tearful, finished speaking, a little glimmer of fun came into Worth's grey eyes, and her dimple was very pronounced as she said,

    Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 1908

  • Give a man one young child to take care of for one day, and when you return to him you find a semi-imbecile, half-tearful creature.

    Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers 1906

  • There was a smiling, half-tearful look in her eyes -- those expressive eyes which, but a moment before, had burnt with a vengeful fire -- as she asked the question.

    The Story of the Foss River Ranch Ridgwell Cullum 1905

  • "Laurence!" said Mary Virginia, with a tremulous, half-tearful laugh,

    Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man Marie Conway Oemler 1905

  • She wished with all her ardent little soul that she had not been so careless, and presently, after a serious, half-tearful study of herself in the glass, she went away to find a remedy.

    The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor 1897

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