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With a rush of half-shamed relief, she realized just who was there in the dining room with her: Hugo, of course.

Whispers At Midnight Karen Robards 2003

With a rush of half-shamed relief, she realized just who was there in the dining room with her: Hugo, of course.

Whispers At Midnight Karen Robards 2003

With a rush of half-shamed relief, she realized just who was there in the dining room with her: Hugo, of course.

Whispers At Midnight Karen Robards 2003

With a rush of half-shamed relief, she realized just who was there in the dining room with her: Hugo, of course.

Whispers At Midnight Karen Robards 2003

"I wanted to tell him myself," Elizabeth said with a half-shamed look in her mother's direction.

The Wind Before the Dawn Dell H. Munger

Then, with a queer, half-shamed laugh, he added: "There's Spanish blood in the Trenbys, you know -- as there is in many of the Cornish folk."

The Moon out of Reach Margaret Pedler

He paused at the threshold, and drew back with a half-shamed laugh.

Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro

But there was a certain half-shamed, half-defiant suggestion in his expression, yet coupled with

The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various

"Mon coeur," whispered the lass, and her voice was low and her face half-shamed, but very brave.

The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars

In the man's was a half-shamed pride, as if he exulted in the strength with which he had been able to maintain his will against her supreme effort to overthrow it.

Within the Law 1913