half-believing

While I was in that dungeon at Gwalior, waiting for I didn't know what, and half-believing that I'd rot there forever, or go mad first, the final innings of the Mutiny was being played out.

Fiancée 2010

"Here he is," says my big escort, and a moment later I was blinking in the brightness of a well-furnished drawing-room, only half-believing the sight of the bird-like figure crying welcome from a great chair by the fireplace.

THE NUMBERS 2010

The six blind men, half-resentful, half-believing, turned away, mainly because Ismail drove them with words and blows.

In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010

He had been sitting hunched forward in his chair, but sat back now, looking at her with the half-skeptical expression of a younger brother listening to a sister's fairy tales, feeling himself too old to be amazed, but half-believing still against his will.

Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

You gravitate to them, again and again, half-believing you'll be the one to redeem them.

There's Something About a Bad Bank 2009

Today (this book was written in 1972) this sounds like the premise for a cheap reality show and so it is no wonder that the young men search for the Brotherhood only half-believing it's true.

REVIEW: The Book of Skulls by Robert Silverberg 2006

A week after finishing this book, I find myself half-believing that Aphrodite Kamestos must exist out there in the great wilderness -- she and her dogs and her spooky island home are too perfectly conjured to be invention.

Two Great Reads: Art as Light, Art as Dark 2007

A week after finishing this book, I find myself half-believing that Aphrodite Kamestos must exist out there in the great wilderness -- she and her dogs and her spooky island home are too perfectly conjured to be invention.

Two Great Reads: Art as Light, Art as Dark 2007

A week after finishing this book, I find myself half-believing that Aphrodite Kamestos must exist out there in the great wilderness -- she and her dogs and her spooky island home are too perfectly conjured to be invention.

July 2007 2007

And, lo! my content was answered out of the trees that bounded the country road upon my right; and it was so as that some one had said: “And thou also!” in glad understanding, that I laughed again a little in my throat; as though I had only a half-believing that any true human did answer my laugh; but rather some sweet Delusion or Spirit that was tuned to my mood.

The Night Land 2007