half-impatient

I can't begin to describe the effect of hearing that pleasant, half-amused, half-impatient American voice issuing from the copper-red hawk face with its feathered braids; it was like having a Chinese mandarin suddenly bursting into "Boiled Beef and Carrots".

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

As usual, Sub-Majer Brevyl looks up from the table desk with the hard green eyes that are half-bemused, half-impatient.

The Magi'i Of Cyador Modesitt, L. E. 2000

I can't begin to describe the effect of hearing that pleasant, half-amused, half-impatient American voice issuing from the copper-red hawk face with its feathered braids; it was like having a Chinese mandarin suddenly bursting into "Boiled Beef and Carrots".

Flashman And The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

I can't begin to describe the effect of hearing that pleasant, half-amused, half-impatient American voice issuing from the copper-red hawk face with its feathered braids; it was like having a Chinese mandarin suddenly bursting into "Boiled Beef and Carrots".

Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

Mr. Vernon rose from the sofa on which he had seated himself, and bowed with a half-impatient, half-regretful air.

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

Perhaps she hardly grasps the cruelty that lies in this half-impatient speech, until she sees Dysart's face flush painfully.

April's Lady A Novel Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

Peace was plainly worried, and with a half-impatient sigh, Cherry closed her fascinating story book and joined her sister watching at the window for the belated girls who had gone in town with Mrs. Grinnell that morning.

At the Little Brown House Ruth Alberta Brown

He gave the hands he held a little half-impatient, half-loving shake.

The Wishing-Ring Man Margaret Widdemer 1931

"Ed!" cried his friend, half-admiring, half-impatient.

The End of the Rainbow Mary Esther Miller MacGregor 1918

Durkin went on at last, with a half-impatient business-is-business glance about him.

Phantom Wires A Novel Arthur Stringer 1912