half-sank

Updated: May 10, 2025

Simultaneously she drove in both spurs with such suddenness and force as to fetch a groan and a leap from the mare. He listened to the soft thuds of hoofs die away along the forest path, himself dizzy in the saddle from the pounding of his blood. When the last hoof-beat had ceased, he half-slipped, half-sank from his saddle to the ground, and sat on a mossy boulder.

Jack London - The Little Lady of the Big House