half-friendly

If I could stay alive for forty-eight hours, and Gibbon's column got here, and I could get my mouth open to some half-friendly ear ...

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

Christmas witch, La Befana, everywhere, on stockings and pendants, decorations and candies, a half-hideous, half-friendly spectre primed to dispense gifts to the young at Epiphany.

Excerpt: The Garden of Evil by David Hewson 2008

If I could stay alive for forty-eight hours, and Gibbon's column got here, and I could get my mouth open to some half-friendly ear ...

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

If I could stay alive for forty-eight hours, and Gibbon's column got here, and I could get my mouth open to some half-friendly ear …

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

The mask became half-quizzical, half-friendly, as her cheeks mantled beneath his regard.

Under the Rose Frederic Stewart Isham

Man's particular equipment of instincts survived in "the struggle for existence" precisely because they were practical, because they did help the human creature to maintain his equilibrium in a half-friendly, half-hostile environment.

Human Traits and their Social Significance Irwin Edman

To dig, to plough, to sow, to reap, are instances of the means whereby man has applied intelligent control to his half-friendly, half-hostile environment.

Human Traits and their Social Significance Irwin Edman

Some even ventured to give him a half-friendly nod when they chanced to meet.

The Chums of Scranton High at Ice Hockey Donald Ferguson

And always, always there is that enormous whispering, -- half-friendly, half-menacing, -- as if the woods were trying to tell you something.

Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes James Branch Cabell 1918

Concluding his argument, he stopped and stood silent for a moment, looking around upon the throng of half-indifferent, half-friendly faces before him, with those deep-sunken weary eyes that always seemed full of unshed tears.

The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln Browne, Francis F 1913