half-surprise

Updated: June 6, 2025

The arms that were fastened about his own bound them down with a grasp of steel; and after a few moments of desperate effort, accompanied with one or two exclamations, half-surprise, half-expostulation, of "Hello, friend, what do you mean?" and "I say, now, friend, you'd better have done " the struggle ceased, and he lay supine in the hold of the unseen persons who had secured him.

William Gilmore Simms - Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia