half-malign

Updated: May 24, 2025

And here poor Sibyl Dacy's laugh grew fainter, and dying away, she seemed to die with it; for there she was, with that mirthful, half-malign expression still on her face, but motionless; so that however long Septimius's life was likely to be, whether a few years or many centuries, he would still have her image in his memory so.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life