half-penitent

Updated: June 4, 2025

Despairing of changing her mood to the serious one that he loved yet so seldom evoked, he arose and bade her good-night. When he was in the hall she softly called him back, meeting him with a half-penitent look in her eyes, which had suddenly become gazelle-like. "You may preach to me again some time, John.

Belle Kanaris Maniates - Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley

'Heighty-teighty! Miss Molly! don't you remember that I am old enough to be your mother, and that it is not pretty behaviour to speak so to us to me! "Chatter" to be sure. Really, Molly 'I beg your pardon, said Molly, only half-penitent. 'I daresay you did not mean to speak so to sister, said Miss Phoebe, trying to make peace. Molly did not answer all at once.

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Wives and Daughters

He threw a deprecating, half-penitent look at Elizabeth, whose faced twitched with amusement, and sat down in a corner behind her that he might observe without talking. His quick intelligence sorted the people about him almost at once the two yeoman-squires, who were not quite at home in Mrs.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - Lady Merton, Colonist

But he looked such a boy, standing there with his hands in his pockets and that half-penitent, half-humorous look in his eyes, that you couldn't be angry. Harry laughed. "Upon my word, you're amazing!" "Oh! you'll get sick of me. It's all so selfish and slack, I know. But I struggled once I'm in the grip now." He talked about Borrow and displayed a little grey-bound "Walden" with pride.

Sir Hugh Walpole - The Wooden Horse

He got up and left the room without a word, and, making his way to the scullery, turned on the tap and held his head beneath it. A sharp intake of the breath announced that a tributary stream was looking for the bump down the neck of his shirt. He was away a long time so long that the half-penitent Mrs. Hatchard was beginning to think of giving first aid to the wounded.

W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs - Sailor's Knots (Entire Collection)

But the murderers, touched by some sentiment of compassion at the sight of the venerable old man, and besides half-penitent for the murders they had committed, resolved to spare us, on condition that we should never return to France.

John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott - The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago