half-subconsciously

Updated: May 18, 2025

And then, in a flash, that sound that he had been half-subconsciously expecting, came the sound of the sea. He could hear it quite distinctly, a distant, half-determined movement that seemed so vast in its roll and plunge, so sharp in the shock with which it met the shore, and yet so subdued that it might be many thousands of miles away.

Sir Hugh Walpole - Fortitude