half-anxious

“We begin by ruining ourselves,” she said, in a half-joyous, half-anxious tone.

The Vendetta 2007

When his English harangue was finished, he remained standing in the centre of the room, a half-pleased, half-anxious expression on his face.

Monsieur Lecoq �mile Gaboriau 2003

Italian garden — allowing only for arid places freshened by the natural dews of a quaint half-anxious, half-helpless fatherhood.

The Portrait of a Lady 2003

I kept the suitably feeble half-anxious smile in place.

Come To Grief Francis, Dick 1995

I kept the suitably feeble half-anxious smile in place.

Come To Grief Francis, Dick 1995

When Mordred glanced at him, with a word of half-anxious apology ready, he turned quickly away without speaking, and strode off down the corridor.

The Wicked Day Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1983

I didn't know what exactly was in my face when I looked up at Alessandro, but the smirk deteriorated into a half-anxious bravado.

Bonecrack Francis, Dick 1971

Now, however, the thunder-clap had come, and after the first alarm, finding they were not killed, they began to discover a certain half-anxious, half-pleasant excitement in talking it over, encouraging one another, and feeling unusually friendly, as people do when a sudden shower drives two or three to the shelter of one umbrella.

An Old-Fashioned Girl 1950

He was tall, sandy-haired, with a half-anxious countenance, as though the cares of the shining new edifice and of the flock rather troubled him.

The First Soprano Mary Hitchcock

For a moment the two little girls stood looking at each other in silence, Sylvia smiling, hut Estralla with a surprised, half-anxious expression.

Yankee Girl at Fort Sumter Alice Turner Curtis