half-wondering

It's not even funny any more: I've already found myself half-wondering if I should move house just to get away.

Diary of a separation 2012

She looked back, too, but in half-wondering terror, for it seemed—

DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

The lexicon of industrial engineering – bridges, railroads, steel foundries – is deployed along with more lyric notes of natural observation in a continuous, half-appalled, half-wondering poetry of sensory agitation.

The Spot by David Means – review James Lasdun 2010

The guide salaamed, half-mockingly, half-wondering at such eloquence, pausing in the passage to point into the side-caves that debouched to either hand.

In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010

“Unless there were a reason for me to stay,” she went on, half-wondering what she herself even meant by that.

Clockwork Angel Cassandra Clare 2010

She read his letters half-wondering if he would mention them, wanting to know if the Jews were devastatedwithout her, or if they had moved on quickly.

Queen Isabella Eats a Pineapple and Misses the Jews 2009

She read his letters half-wondering if he would mention them, wanting to know if the Jews were devastated without her, or if they had moved on quickly.

Queen Isabella Eats a Pineapple and Misses the Jews 2009

I have, many and many a time, thought since, of this strange Dream upon the water: half-wondering if it lie there yet, and if its name be

Pictures from Italy 2007

Ronda repeated the mental mantra over and over, half-wondering if she was dreaming all this from a hospital bed.

Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down Sherrilyn Kenyon 2005

There was half-wondering impatience in her command.

The Metal Monster 2004