half-triumphantly

Updated: May 16, 2025

And when one thinks of it a minute, it sends one half-fearfully, half-triumphantly back to one's work the very thought of it. The Crowd hurrying, the Crowd's flurrying Machines, and the Crowd's God, send one back to one's work! In the afternoon I go out again, slip my way through the crowds along the Strand, toward Charing Cross.

Gerald Stanley Lee - Crowds: A Moving-Picture of Democracy

And the earl, glancing towards an opposite glass, which reflected his attenuated but comely features beneath his velvet nightcap trimmed with Mechlin, laughed half-triumphantly as he spoke. A sneer just passed the lips of Brandon, and as instantly vanished, while Mauleverer continued,

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - Paul Clifford — Volume 03

In the gathering dusk of an autumn evening, Tabby came, half-triumphantly, half-tremblingly, but in great wrath, to tell Emily that Keeper was lying on the best bed, in drowsy voluptuousness.

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1

And the earl, glancing towards an opposite glass, which reflected his attenuated but comely features beneath his velvet nightcap trimmed with Mechlin, laughed half-triumphantly as he spoke. A sneer just passed the lips of Brandon, and as instantly vanished, while Mauleverer continued,

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - Paul Clifford — Complete