halfdrawn

He leaped like a salmon, springing off the bed and coming to rest on the floor in a crouch, dirk halfdrawn.

Dragonfly in Amber Gabaldon, Diana 1992

For a few moments the blacks held their ground within the entrance to the street, but the revolvers, rifles and cutlasses of the Frenchmen crumpled the native spearmen and struck down the black archers with their bows halfdrawn.

Tarzan of the Apes 1914

For a few moments the blacks held their ground within the entrance to the street, but the revolvers, rifles and cutlasses of the Frenchmen crumpled the native spearmen and struck down the black archers with their bows halfdrawn.

Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

Miss Wickham pointed to a door in the oak panelling, a door set in a corner of the room, across which hung a heavy curtain of red plush, only halfdrawn.

The Middle of Things 1899