half-grand

Updated: July 4, 2026

So, in the half-gloomy, half-grand apartment, roamed the tall and wrinkled figure whom the country had summoned from his plain home into mighty history, with the geography of the republic drawn into a narrow compass so that he might lay his great brown hand upon it everywhere.

George Alfred Townsend - The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth