half-speech

Updated: June 23, 2025

A fire, sir, is a thing that may happen any night." Then old Sapt suddenly burst into a roar, half-speech, half laughter. "By God, what a thing!" he roared; and James smiled complacently. "There's a fate about it," said the constable. "There's a strange fate about it. The man was born to it. We'd have done it before if Michael had throttled the king in that cellar, as I thought he would.

Anthony Hope - Rupert of Hentzau

There Vandover had beer and sauerkraut, but Ellis took more whisky. The Dummy continued to make peculiar sounds in his throat, half-noise, half-speech, and Geary gravely informed the waiter that cherries were ripe. All at once Ellis was drunk, collapsing in a moment.

Frank Norris - Vandover and the Brute