half-sporting

Updated: May 2, 2025

In spite of his capacity for concealing his emotions, I could easily see that Holmes was in a state of suppressed excitement, while I was myself tingling with that half-sporting, half-intellectual pleasure which I invariably experienced when I associated myself with him in his investigations.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Macleod opened this letter with some trepidation, for it was from London; but it was in Norman Ogilvie's handwriting. "DEAR MACLEOD, I thought you might like to hear the latest news. I cut the enclosed from a sort of half-sporting, half-theatrical paper our fellows get; no doubt the paragraph is true enough.

William Black - Macleod of Dare