half-nervous

Updated: June 16, 2025

Wendover, he said at last, and his tone had a half-defiant, half-nervous energy, 'you have given your best attention all these years to the Christian problems. 'Naturally, said the squire drily. Then, as his companion still seemed to wait, keenly expectant, he resumed, with something cynical in the smile which accompanied the words, 'But I have no wish to infringe our convention.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - Robert Elsmere

That's right don't talk too much," she added, with a half-nervous little laugh, as the old man, with a kind of fixed smile, and the child shook hands in silence. Presently she saw Black Andy behind the stove. "Well, Andy, have you been here ever since?" she asked, and, as he came forward, she suddenly caught him by both arms, stood on tiptoe, and kissed him.

Gilbert Parker - Northern Lights