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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
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How silly Henry looked to me as he squatted by the tree with a half-serious, half-amused grimace.
Good Fortune Noni Carter 2010
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How silly Henry looked to me as he squatted by the tree with a half-serious, half-amused grimace.
Good Fortune Noni Carter 2010
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Then the lines of her face relaxed into their normal expression of half-amused cynicism.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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How silly Henry looked to me as he squatted by the tree with a half-serious, half-amused grimace.
Good Fortune Noni Carter 2010
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Screenwriter, I said, and his tacit, half-pitying, half-amused how many times has he heard this before? nod.
Hollywood Savage Kristin McCloy 2010
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How silly Henry looked to me as he squatted by the tree with a half-serious, half-amused grimace.
Good Fortune Noni Carter 2010
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Screenwriter, I said, and his tacit, half-pitying, half-amused how many times has he heard this before? nod.
Hollywood Savage Kristin McCloy 2010
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When the Shaman had regained the upper hand and returned to his negotiations, he had not lost a bit of his outwardly pleasant and half-amused demeanor.
Elephant in the City 2010
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With a half-amused glance over her shoulder at him, she ducked inside; swearing under his breath, Alec followed her.
Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series Cassandra Clare 2009
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