half-pleading

He forced a broader smile, half-pleading, half-cunning.

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He forced a broader smile, half-pleading, half-cunning.

Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

He forced a broader smile, half-pleading, half-cunning.

Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

As the director's tone gradually changed from browbeating anger to half-anger, half-pleading and cajolery, Shar-monov's head turned.

Dance Of Desire Lisa, Leonore 1982

Instead she had rested both elbows on the table and was looking at her companion with the half-pleading, half-commanding expression that both Mollie and Betty knew so well.

The Camp Fire Girls in the Outside World Margaret Vandercook

But how to tell her as she looked up into my face with the half-pleading, half-imperious smile that I knew so well?

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 Various

She looked into the girls 'faces with a half-questioning, half-pleading expression as if fearful that this confession of her possession of a title would raise a barrier between them.

The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit Or, over the Top with the Winnebagos 1924

"I'll explain it to you later, dear!" she said, half-annoyed and half-pleading.

Harriet and the Piper Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

"You can forgive me what is past, I hope, since I failed of my purpose," he said gently, half-pleading.

Scaramouche Rafael Sabatini 1912

"Mr. West!" she said again, her voice half-imperious, half-pleading.

The Swindler and Other Stories 1910