half-active

Updated: May 7, 2025

Here Judge Peyton seemed to have realized his idea of a perfect climate, and a retirement, half-studious, half-active, with something of the seignioralty of the old slaveholder that he had been. Here, too, he had seen the hope of restoring his wife's health for which he had undertaken the overland emigration more than fulfilled in Mrs.

Bret Harte - Susy, a story of the Plains

I looked away from Mat's gray eyes, and Beverly's head dropped on his arms, face downward looked at nothing but blue sky, and a graceful drooping flag; nothing but a half-sleepy, half-active fort; nothing but the yellow April floods far up-stream, between wooded banks tenderly gray-green in the spring sunshine. But I did not see any of these things then.

Margaret Hill McCarter - Vanguards of the Plains