half-fraternal

Updated: June 26, 2025

She could have gone on indefinitely with the half-filial, half-fraternal relationship into which she and Mart had fallen, but the thought of that other most intimate, most elemental union which his touch had made more definite than ever before produced in her a shudder of repulsion, of positive loathing.

Hamlin Garland - Money Magic: A Novel

"And do you think," he asked with logical deliberation, "that you could find any plant from another I should give you?" "Yes." "Or from a drawing of it" "Yes; perhaps even if you described it to me." A half-confidential, half-fraternal silence followed. "I tell you what. I've got a book " "I know it," interrupted Teresa; "full of these things." "Yes. Do you think you could "

Bret Harte - In the Carquinez Woods