half-affrightedly

Updated: August 12, 2026

But it seemed to her now that an intruder had entered the field a stranger before whom she was impelled to suddenly fly half-laughingly, half-affrightedly the anxious Dick following wonderingly at her mustang's heels, until she reached the gates of the hacienda, where she fell into a gravity and seriousness that made him wonder still more.

Bret Harte - The Bell-Ringer of Angel's